Brett Favre Retires, but for How Long?

There were no tears, no sniffles, and no sad eyes this time. In fact, there was no hyped up press conference with lights and cameras. Just Ed Werder, ESPN, and a humbled Brett Favre.

But this can't really be it, can it?

I don't mean to say it's impossible Brett Favre is content with ending his career. In fact, that part I do believe. But if you're honestly believing he wouldn't come back to play for Minnesota if he could, then you're being foolish.

As great of a quarterback as Favre has been, and as much as I love him, it's still been painfully obvious in the past year that Favre doesn't exactly tell the truth in interviews.

He usually goes awkwardly out of his way to refute something, or say "You may think it's this way, but it isn't." It's just like he's trying too hard to trick us, to keep us on our feet.

And really, I can't blame him.

Favre wanted to be in Green Bay and he wanted to keep playing. Ted Thompson didn't want him, so Favre did what he could to play again, and now he's stuck under contract with another team he needs to figure out how to manipulate.

Favre has said over and over again that he knows he can still play, even admitting that his current injury his easily fixable, and he would make a full recovery. A few months of rehab and conditioning, and he'd be better off than he was last offseason.

He could work something out with the Jets to get traded, and then he could be re-united with Darrell Bevell.

It may not be the best ending to a legendary story, but part of me would find it unbelievably easy to forget about all the drama if Favre signed with the Vikings and won a Super Bowl.

And that's just what might happen...