Favre Retired.....For Serious This Time

After three years of "Will he or won't he," he finally has. Brett Favre announced this morning that he's finally hanging his cleats up, and he's retiring.

"I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired," Favre told ESPN's Chris Mortensen in a voice mail messasge.

"If I felt like coming back -- and Deanna [Favre, his wife] and I talked about this -- the only way for me to be successful would be to win a Super Bowl. To go to the Super Bowl and lose, would almost be worse than anything else. Anything less than a Super Bowl win would be unsuccessful," Favre said in the message.

"I know it shouldn't feel unsuccessful, but the only way to come back and make that be the right decision would be to come back and win a Super Bowl and honestly the odds of that, they're tough. Those are big shoes for me to fill, and I guess it was a challenge I wasn't up for. "

This comes as a bit of a surprise to most people because after struggling for the last three seasons, Favre was reborn in 2007, and the Packers got to the NFC Championship before Brett lost his glass slipper and killed the Packers chances to get to the Super Bowl. Still, most people thought that the success Favre had this season assured he'd be back in 2008.

I'm not that surprised because I thought the only reason Favre came back for one last season was so he could break all Dan Marino's records, which he did. I don't think Brett thought for a second that the Packers were going to be as good as they were.

Of course, I don't care why he came back last season, or why he's not coming back next season, the only thing I care about is that he's gone. This is easily the best thing to happen to the Bears this season, because now they have a chance at winning the division.

Think about it, Rex Grossman is now the most "decorated" quarterback in the NFC North.

I'll let that one sink in for a second.

So while Packers fans everywhere contemplate suicide this morning, I'm rejoicing. The man that has tortured me for 17 years can't hurt me anymore.

What's odd about this whole thing though, is that I'm going to miss him. I hated the man when he was on a football field playing against the Bears, but that still doesn't change the fact he was the best quarterback I've ever seen play the game.

Still, I don't think it'll take me that long to get over it. See? I'm over it already.

Good riddance you bastard!