See? It never gets old.

Yesterday the media jumped on reports of text messages indicating that Brett Favre was retiring.

Today ESPN reports that he told Ed Werder he never sent those alleged text messages and that he’d play if he felt he was healthy enough to do so (I tend to believe that there were text messages of some sort and that they were either subterfuge or that the media misinterpreted them or blew them out of proportion, but I have no evidence to support the hunch).

And Deadspin reports that as a New York Jet two seasons ago, Favre text-messaged pictures of his … unit to a female employee of the team.

The soap opera never gets old.

Okay, it’s ridiculously old and it has been for a couple years now. But it never goes away. So when we wrote the post yesterday indicating that he was “retiring … maybe,” it was with full expectation that this was just the beginning. Others felt the same way.

I’m a little surprised the second chapter of this year’s “Will he or won’t he” book happened this quickly. But the truth is we don’t know if Favre will play or not and we won’t know if he will play or not until the season starts and we see who is starting at quarterback for the Vikings.

And even then, if Favre doesn’t start the season I think there is a good chance that if the team gets off to a slow start he’s cajoled into returning.

As we wrote yesterday, the only certainty with Favre is the uncertainty. That’s what you sign up for when he joins the team. And I think it’s going to be around for another year or three.

Cheers.