Brett Favre: Please, Call It a Day | The Sports World According to Koss

Brett Favre, please take my advice and if the Packers don't want you then stay retired. You said the show was over and you wanted to hang it up now stick to your word.

And in a point of full disclosure, I am a Bears fan. But the fact that you have led your Packers out onto the field for some 17 years now and continually battered my boys is besides the point. That has nothing to do with it, but being a Chicago fan we know a little about a great player hanging on just a little too long.

As much as I hated seeing you run out there in the green and gold of the Packers, I still respect you as a great player. After all, what sports fan or football fan can't recognize you as one of the great players of your generation and probably of all time? And this is the sole reason that you cannot return to football under the helmet of any other team.

You may have the want to play, and the "itch" as you call it, but when the sun has set, its just all over.

Brett, I don't want to see you tarnish your legacy by coming back with some team other than the Packers and having a lackluster couple of seasons. Not living up to what we all know you used to be able to do. We don't want to see shades of the past followed by the truth that you no longer have it.

Like I said, I'm a Chicago Fan, and seeing Michael Jordan return with the Wizards was one of the most painful experiences of my life. He damaged his career per game stats and now some young kids remember him as an ailing, washed up player trying to hang on and not the superstar that he was. He should have stayed retired after his final shot to win the title in 1998.

Now I understand your final play was an interception that cost you the game, but lets be honest about the circumstances. You had one of the best seasons of your career last year and put a young team on your shoulders and took them farther than anyone else expected. Remember that as your shining moment.

So again Brett, please stay retired and don't tarnish your great legacy.

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July 5, 2008 06:14 PM ET

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Good blog, But I've read about 10 of these.

FanMan.

Green Bay, WI

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July 7, 2008 09:14 PM ET

It's like Michael Jordan said about people criticizing him for "tarnishing his legacy": "they're not the ones who have to look at themselves in the mirror and wonder if they can still do it."

If Brett wants to play, he doesn't need our permission. It's his call.