Favre as a Viking eh? Circle Dec. 28th and bring it on

The NFL schedule makers are part gamblers, part fortune-tellers. They take educated guesses months in advance of how teams will finish and try to set compelling match-ups, especially down the stretch.

One such match-up they seemed to nail already was the final Monday Night Football game week 16, when the Minnesota Vikings are set to visit the Chicago Bears. Already potentially a showdown for the divisional crown the rumored return of Brett Favre shoots the potential ratings off the chart.

Imagine Brett Favre walking in to Soldier Field, wearing Viking purple instead of Packer green, and dueling it out with Jay Cutler for the NFC North. ESPN execs may require plastic surgery to remove the smiles from their faces. Tony Kornheiser is already losing what’s left of his hair trying to figure out how to fit in all the John Madden jokes.

It would be the NFL’s, ESPN’s and the media’s dream come true. A late Christmas present from Santa Claus.

And I think it’s going to happen.

It’s plain to see at this point that Brett Favre can’t help himself. Upset at ending his career with an interception in the NFC Championship game he came back last year and forced his way out of Green Bay.

Now unable to handle finishing his career collapsing down the stretch and taking the Jets from AFC favorites to out of the playoffs he wants to return to the NFC North with the Vikings. Favre simply wants to erase last year and prove the Packers wrong by going and winning at the place the refused to send him last season.

This guy’s ego is unbelievable.

Last year Bears fans could ignored the Favre drama. He was headed out of the NFC, and why should they care about a player who tormented them for years tarnishing his legacy? He was just another pro-athlete who didn’t know when to hang ‘em up.

But now it’s a different story. Now Favre is Arnold Schwarzenegger at the end of Terminator, right down to the corny “I’ll be back” line. You can shoot him, run him over with a truck, blow him up, but he just won’t go away.

There is no denying the Vikings are a Super Bowl ready team that’s only missing the quarterback. They are being held back by having to choose from two inconsistent and mistake prone QBs – Tavaris Jackson and Sage Rosenfels – when they just need someone who won’t turn it over, hand the ball to Adrian Peterson and occasionally go deep to Bernard Berrian and Percy Harvin.

Is Brett Favre really that guy at this point? His finishing kick in New York might suggest otherwise.

As a Bears fan, if the Vikings want to hitch their Super Bowl wagon to a soon-to-be 40 year old fading QB then I say “bring it on” and I am sure most Packers fans feel the same.

Who ever thought there would be a time when everyone in Green Bay didn’t love Brett Favre? That’s what an uncontrollable ego will get you.

So circle December 28th on your calendars now. It could be a movie script ending along the shores of Lake Michigan when Brett “The Terminator” Favre finally gets crushed, this time by Jay Cutler.