Okay, that’s it. I’ve had enough. I can’t take any more of the ESPN manufactured drama. Don’t get me wrong, they can do some pretty amazing stuff in Bristol, Ct., but lately they’ve just been absurd. I’ve seen far, FAR more of Brett #()*&ing Favre than I’ve wanted to over the, oh say, past two months. It’s breaking news every time the confused quarterback inhales and/or exhales.

I DON’T CARE ABOUT FAVRE! Yes, it’s newsworthy that Favre decided to come back and totally screw over the Green Bay Packers after a tearful retirement speech back in March. But ESPN is just taking this to a whole new level. Half of SportsCenter is now “Brett Favre Watch”. There were great baseball games yesterday, and even an NFL pre-season game, but you’d never know it if you were watching the national sports network. They even filmed NFL Live from Packers camp last week. Today they’re even televising Brett Favre walking into Green Bay’s facilities (where there’s no practice) just to take a damn physical and conditioning test. We have to hear about it every time he steps on or off an airplane, football field, or podium. It’s ludicrious that a national sports monopoly would give such a stupid situation that much attention.

Here in Philadelphia we’ve never been known for our compassion for players of teams not named the Eagles, Sixers, Flyers, or Phillies, but I’m willing to make an exception here. Aaron Rodgers has to hate this monstrocity more than anyone else. I feel about as bad as I can for a guy who gets paid $2 million to hold a clipboard one day a week. Poor guy has to deal with Wendy Nix shoving a microphone in his face every day asking ‘how he feels’ about ‘the latest’ in the ‘Brett Favre saga’.

For the love of sports, for the love of my sanity, and having zero sympathy for the Packers who could have put an end to this situation in so many different ways, I hope something big happens in Green Bay today so we all don’t have to hear about Brett Favre for another day. I want to get back to the life where I turn on the tube and get to watch Baseball Tonight without having an entire section of the ‘bottom line’ devoted to Favre.