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The Brett Favre Saga continues. On July 23, 2008 it was reported that the National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell has now ordered the Green Bay Packers General Manager Ted Thompson to finally come up with a resolution to the unfortunate standoff between the Green Bay Packers and their retired, then un-retired star quarterback Brett Favre.

It has been made clear by Thompson that the team is fully committed to proceeding as planned, without Brett Favre as the starting quarterback. The Packers main intention right now is to start a completely untested in the NFL quarterback by the name of Aaron Rodgers; this is instead of openly taking back the 3 time National Football League Most Valuable Player Brett Favre.

It is somewhat understandable how frustrating it must be for the Green Bay Packers to have accepted the retirement of Favre as an understandable and logical decision, only to have him come back a few months later and announce that he has changed his mind and wants to continue to play professional football. There was no animosity on either side; it was just time for the 38 year old star quarterback to complete his NFL career. Unfortunately this decision was probably not as well thought out as it should have been. To announce your un-retirement just months after your retirement is a bit of an unsettling move for all involved. This is currently the center of what has become known as the Brett Favre Saga.

It is understandable that the Green Bay Packers National Football League franchise is first and foremost a business. To run a successful business many plans are carefully laid out and each portion of a plan affects other portions of the plan as well as other plans which are all in the grand scheme of things. In order to devise and test ideas and plans it takes money, and in the case of big business on a scale such as this it takes big money. To simply erase all the planning and arranging would certainly be a huge financial waste. And the fact that the beginning of the 2008 National Football League season is just around the corner certainly does not help matters.

The fact that Brett Favre has had such an outstanding career and has accomplished so much on such a grand scale is actually the other side of this coin. To choose to go with a whole new direction and offensive leader at this time, when the quarterback who led a thirteen and three regular season finish just last year is ready and willing to step back into the role of offensive leader, is highly questionable. This is questionable even when you consider the business and financial side of things.

To add to the unpleasantness of this whole situation, known as the Brett Favre Saga, the Green Bay Packers have now filed tampering charges against the Minnesota Vikings NFL team franchise. This is apparently the result of Brett having used his team issued cell phone to communicate with the Minnesota Vikings coach Brad Childress on several occasions apparently in order to discuss the possibility of him joining the Vikings as their starting quarterback for the 2008 NFL season.

Author Troy Sevine is a life long Green Bay Packer fan and a freelance writer who reaches hundreds of readers every day.