Brett Favre's Second Retirement Comes Courtesy of Minnesota Vikings' Failure

For NFL fans, the Brett Favre drama has ended...at least for now. The big story coming out of the NFL today was news that Favre told Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress, and every other news media source enticed by the saga, that he will stay retired.

This comes after days of speculation that Favre might come out of his second retirement to play for the Minnesota Vikings of the NFC North. Childress was supposed to be meeting with Favre "later this week at an undisclosed location" to talk about him coming out of his second retirement to play for the Vikings.

However, Minnesota news station (KSTP) reported early this morning that Childress was seen entering the Vikings facility, Winter Park—a very different story than the Twin Cities' newspaper (The Star Tribune), which reported that Brad Childress boarded a commercial flight Wednesday night to Hattiesburg, Mississippi to discuss playing football again with the future Hall of Fame quarterback.

So, misleading reports or not, it looks like the meeting never happened. Where do the Vikings go after this new failure?

Right back on track with their quarterback issues.

Right back to the QB competition that will start late May at Vikings training camp, which will pit former Houston Texans quarterback Sage Rosenfels, looking for his first starting job, against the four-year wonder Tarvaris Jackson.

Having a player with the experience like Brett Favre, though, would have solved the Vikings' quarterback problems at least for a year or two. However, Favre has said he is staying retired, and for the Vikings, it's time for the team to move on and accept failure.

That's something the Vikings are all too familiar with, including their failure to sign free agent wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh to a deal for a team in need of more "dangerous" receivers, as their only deep threat, of course, is ex-Chicago Bear receiver Bernard Berrian.

Now it's time to move on to reality and look towards the 2009 season and a starting quarterback.