A Back up is a back up is a back up

So Brett Favre is back. I think thats great. This is Brett Favre, this isn't some schmo who had a few good seasons with one team, this a guy who made Green Bay a significant stop on the NFL supremacy train route. Favre IS Green Bay and he is the heart and soul of the city and franchise with the cheese on it's head. When you think of the Packers, you think of three things, Vince Lombardi, Cheese and Brett Favre. Bart Starr is a guy you think of as well, but not as much unless you live near or in Green Bay. How can a team turn its back on someone like the Packers have been doing for the last couple of months? They were shopping Favre around for trades, denying his reinstatement, treating him like a cancer spreading throughout the body. Why? Who is Aaron Rodgers? Who is Ted Thompson? They don't hold a torch to what Brett Favre has done for the city and for the team in Northern Wisconsin. Just because Favre thought he wanted to retire and was sincere about it, doesn't mean that if he decides he was wrong he should be ignored and thrown to the way side. Are you kidding me? All the players, all the coaches, all the front office personal can thank Brett Favre for their existence, because if it wasnt for him none of them would matter a bit in the NFL. The Packers owe Favre a lot more then just the chance to come back and compete for his "old" job. Aaron Rodgers is good guy, he is close to Favre and he has really taken this whole media circus well and with a touch of class. Not a lot of guys who were back ups to one of the best players in the NFL would be able to deal with this whole situation, but Rodgers has taken his lumps and been respectful because he knows this is all about Brett Favre. Which is actually the first time it has been just about Favre. Never has Brett Favre put himself before the city of Green Bay or the team, ever. He has been one of the most unselfish employees and team players anyone has ever known. So I think that if he wants to make it about himself once, I think that he is owed that and that if he wants to play again let him play. All these media people think it is open season too rip him apart and make him seem like a flip flopper and some devious guy. I am sorry, did anyone realize that this is Brett Favre, this is the guy whose name is on street signs and restaurants in downtown Green Bay. He has been the clean, golden boy of the NFL for 17 seasons. With all the big egos in the NFL, like Chad Johnson and Deion Sanders and Warren Sapp and so on and so on, Brett Favre has been as humble and as modest as can be and he has also been a bright ray of sunlight in this brutal and dark sport we have come to love. There is nothing I am taking away from the job of backing up a starting quarterback, it is tough and I am damn sure I couldn't do it, but the fact is, your a back up. Its like on Broadway when someone is an understudy to the star of the show. What it means is that they have talent and they have enough to be good, but not good enough yet to be the star. And as long as the star is alive, he/she is going to be that star because they have something the understudy or backup does not, thats what makes them the star. Its called life. I am sure deep down inside, the backups and understudies of the world are secretly hoping the person in front of them is going to break their leg and have to leave, but if that does happen are they ready to lead and take on the responsibility of winning and losing?
And one more thing. Who does Ted Thompson think he is? He has been the GM for about one minute, does he think he can tell Brett Favre to take a hike when he asks to come back and play for the team he has given his life for? If he wants to make this 2008 Green Bay team his own, with is stamp on it, then he can't just forget about Brett Favre because he was confused and emotionally drained after losing his father and playing in the biggest game other the Super Bowl. Thompson should give Brett whatever he wants or he should go work for the Atlanta Falcons where the fans don't care and would rather have Big Bird then Michael Vick as their quarterback.