Now, First off, I love Brett Favre, I love the Packers as a team more, but I do love Favre, amazing football player, one of the best ever. After saying that, this is where the title of my writing comes in, Brett Favre will have a terrible year.

I do not say this because of the 6 or 7 weeks of hell we have all been through. I do not say this because of the soap opera. I do not say this becasue of the 'competition' that will go on and Aaron Rodgers will beat Brett out (never happen). I say this will happen because of John Madden, and 'the curse.'

 If you do not know, there is a curse along with the cover athlete of the John Madden Football games.

2000 - Barry Sanders on the cover, he retires that year out of nowhere.

2001 - Eddie George on the cover, he fumbles in the playoffs, team loses, then plagued by injuries after.

2002 - Dante Culpepper, knee injury, team goes 4-7.

2003 - Marshall Faulk, ankle injury, team goes 7-9.

2004 - Michael Vick, fratured right fibula in practice, team goes 5-11, finds a new hobby in the off-season.

2005 - Ray Lewis, torn right hamstring, team missed playoffs.

2006 - Donovan McNabb, sports hernia, finds new love for his mom and cambells soup.

2007 - Shaun Alexander, broke left foot, tells QB Matt Hasselbeck about McNabb and his soup, Hasselbeck decides he likes it too.

2008 - Vince Young, injured left foot, misses first game since ever.

And now we have our beloved Brett Favre...my prediction:

This year, Brett and Aaron will have their so-called 'competition' for the QB spot. In the first round, Brett will go back to pass, and a lion from the Green Bay Zoo will come across the field and tear his leg off. Then, while Ryan Grant is trying to chase after the lion carrying the leg, a mongoose will suddenly pop out of Ryan Grant's jersey, distract him, and he will be run over by an oncoming car, what will be known as a 'fluke mongoose accident.' When Brett finally uses his signature rocket arm and kills the lion with a football, he will recover his leg, then done for the season. He then will call buddy and former back-up Matt Hasselbeck, and ask what his favorite soup is, and he will respond with "anything Chunky!" All of the sudden, Mike McCarthy will name Aaron Rodgers as the starting QB, then Aaron will fall sudden victim to a fatal attack of instant lupus, and pass on. This will leave rookie Brian Brohm as our QB. The Packers will go 2-14, their only wins being the Bears of course, because even with our situation of lions and mongooses and lupus's, their QB's are way worse.

(Okay, I didn't even mean for this to end like that, because now it sounds like a stupid 'pass it on email' joke, but i was rambling and that came out of nowhere, sorry)

 Let's go Pack, and please don't make me cry this Football season. It would be the first time I have cried since seeing the movie Rudy in the theater.