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Brett Favre, Benedict Arnold and Darth Vader Walk Into A Bar...

By Todd Welter

They find Judas tending bar and well, there is no punch line here because this betrayal is no laughing matter. Brett Favre officially betrayed his legacy and the Packers' fans that came to worship him by hooking up with the Vikings. He is no longer the icon who took pay cuts to give the Packers financial flexibility. He is no longer the legend who was and always would be a Packer (even in a New York Jets exile). Nope, turns out Brett is just like every superstar--selfish, egotistical and only out for number four.

Gone is the guy that claimed that he could 99.9% never envision playing for another team. Gone is the worshiping that the Packer nation adorned him upon him to the point that he would never go hungry again. Instead, Packers fans are now wishing death, injury, plague and pestilence upon him. Who would have ever thought we would see the day?

Hurt feelings aside, is Brett really a traitor? Considering he has not taken a snap for the Packers since Jan. 2008, how could he be a traitor? Certainly Packers management does not care. Although, they were the ones that exiled him in the first place.

"I have no comment about it," Mike McCarthy told the Journal-Sentinel's Greg Bedard.

"We're a football team that's looking to improve. If he's going to play, that's obviously his choice."

The players in the Packers' locker room barely gave a shrug, "I don't have a reaction," Aaron Rodgers told Bedard.

"It doesn't pertain to me. It has absolutely nothing to do with me. It doesn't change anything. It has nothing to do with the Green Bay Packers."

If the players are not considering him Judas, why should the rest of the Packers' nation? The team has moved on and so should the rest of the football loving world. Come on, the guy that replaced him in Green Bay is not too shabby himself. Plus, the NFL is always a better place with Brett Favre in it. So why the hurt feelings?

Although we could confuse Brett for Benedict Arnold because today signals that Brett Favre is truly not like you and me (although there were plenty of warning signs before today). That was the image that many Packers fans built up of him. That was the image Brett built up of himself to the public. He was that good, old boy quarterback who played the game like you would--having fun and no guts, no glory. He was the working class hero. He never acted like those other spoiled, overpaid NFL stars. He actually enjoyed Green Bay. In return, the fans overlooked every transgression from drug abuse to being the first guy catching a plane out of Green Bay the moment the season was done.

Turns out, Brett, the forever and ever Packer through and through is officially all bunk. Instead, Brett is a wishy-washy, indecisive punchline. In the end, Brett only cares about one thing--Brett Favre. Brett believed he was bigger than the Packers. He believed he was bigger than Vince Lombardi and those that came before him. Brett wanted everyone around him to kiss the ring and when those like Ted Thompson did not, he threw a fit. He wanted to be coddled and fawned over. He found it in the enemy. He found an organization and a coach willing to not only bend over backwards but put him above the team by allowing him to live by his own rules. It is the equivalent of the guy who walks out on his family for the women who likes to parade in tight shirts and make sure his favorite drink is made when he gets home from work.

By signing with the Vikings, he has betrayed all those that came to love him. He betrayed those that came to love him like he was part of their family. He turned to the dark side. He is officially a traitor. You know what they say about traitors--they deserve to die a traitor's death. In Brett's case, it means a destroyed legacy and the possibility of Aaron Kampan leaving him knocked out on the Humptydump field on Oct. 5.