Brett Favre has plenty of fans in his new digs in Jersey, but don't count the Wall Street Journal's Allen Barra among them. Here is the lead to Barra's piece:
"Arriving in New York last Friday, Brett Favre sounded as if he had taken a page from Bull Durham's Nuke LaLoosh. "I'm here for one reason," he told reporters. "I'm here to help the Jets win."
It would have been refreshing if at least one of the worshipful media folk at the press conference had replied, "Well, actually, Brett, you're here because after months of vacillating on your retirement and putting the Packers through hell -- and forcing them into using a valuable draft pick on an extra quarterback because they didn't know whether you'd be playing for them this season -- you tried to bully them into either making you the starter or trading you to a team of your choice. Like a prima donna, you put your own desires ahead of the welfare of the organization to which you professed loyalty. Now you've been dumped on one of the NFL's most desperate franchises because no one else wanted you."
-- Although most of the fuss over the latest Madden game has surrounded Favre's appearance on the cover in a Packers uniform, the Associated Press gives it a solid review. Among the highlights: a mode in which you can try to re-create top moments from the 2007 season, including Devin Hester's two-return-touchdown game and David Tyree's Super Bowl catch.
-- The NFL is fighting a new IRS requirement that would force the league to reveal how much many of its top executives earn. The New York Times article reports that commissioner Roger Goodell's annual salary is believed to be nearly $10 million.
-- John Dudley