So nice that Favre is someone else's problem
Message to Packers fans: Welcome to a little taste of Chicago.
Not that I find the Brett Favre amusing ... but ha-ha.
Seriously, nobody should take pleasure in the misfortune of others, unless we're talking sports.
Take golf, where it's generally accepted that 10 percent of players don't care how you're playing and the other 90 percent hope you're playing poorly.
In sports, misery does love company and Chicago fans are like a touring company of "Les Miserables."
So when the Packers and Favre plunge into a "gut-wrenching" staredown verging on a smackdown ...
Welcome to our world, Cheesebreathers.
How does it feel to suddenly have Mike McCaskey running the Packers, Dave Wannstedt making their personnel decisions and the Punky One being their estranged quarterback?
Green Bay's current mess is the Cliffs Notes version of Michael Jordan winning championships with the Bulls, retiring, returning to win more championships, retiring again and then returning to play for the Wizards.
It's the Cubs going nearly a century without winning a World Series and the Western Open being yanked from local golf fans after more than a century.
So, no, the Packers and Favre shouldn't expect sympathy around here for holding each other prisoner. At least not from me.
My impression is nobody is at fault for the friction up there, just as I didn't think anybody was at fault when Jordan and the Bulls split forever. People just grow apart.
Dave Mason's lyrics put it best: "There ain't no good guys, there's ain't no bad guys. There's only you and me and we just disagree."
If anything can be blamed, it's that neither Packers executives nor Favre seem capable of stuffing their egos, swallowing their pride and compromising their positions.
From my viewpoint, it doesn't get more enjoyable than that.
The Packers are stressed by the uncertainty Favre is causing them after he provided them with 16 years of certainty at quarterback?
Boohoo.
Let Aaron Rodgers - the Aar apparent to Favre, I guess you can call him - turn into the next Rex Grossman. That'll remind the Packers how good they have had it.
Favre is feeling disrespected by the Packers after the fans, franchise and community treated him like royalty those same 16 seasons?
Boohoo again.
Let Favre throw to Mark Bradley and Rashied Davis for a season and he'll be reminded how good he has had it.
As a lifelong Chicagoan who witnessed the worries of the sports world, I'm eager to see whether the Pack-Favre dust-up results in a split messier than Christie Brinkley's.
The question then would be who gets custody of the kid, in this case Favre himself.
My preference would be this: Favre shows up for the season opener on "Monday Night Football" wearing a Vikings No. 4 as his Packers No. 4 is retired.
Cruel, I know, but deliciously .
Short of that, hey, this quarterback and that franchise might as well reconcile.
If the Packers want to win a Super Bowl they should keep Favre, and if he wants to win one he should keep them.
Until they realize that, excuse me for relishing their domestic dispute.