Brett Favre is making me a touch schizophrenic in my inability to feel the same way about him day to day. Will he come to training camp? Or won’t he? Does he want to get traded? Or doesn’t he? Really, the waiting for each new press conference/announcement is the hardest part. Well, except for the listening.

And today’s exciting news comes straight from Peter King at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED who lets us know that he spoke — over triple soy mocha lattes!! — with Favre directly, and the gunslinger will not be reporting to Packers training camp when it opens in a few hours. The good news is that he’s actually doing this with the intention of making things less awkward for poor Aaron Rodgers.
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Despite all of Roger Goodell’s kind gestures to the Ted Thompson (re: do something with Brett Favre now before I “Tank Johnson” your entire team), and despite the Packers wiretapping their QB, the grizzled old gunslinger is still a Green Bay Packer.

And it appears, as reported by Adam Schefter at NFL.COM, that Favre has no intentions of leaving the team alone - or letting Aaron Rodgers ever live like a normal first round draft pick and, you know, get to play. Because, yes, he does intend to report to training camp, and is warming up his fax machine to send the Commish a letter of reinstatement.

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