Favre shows off healthy ankle by fleeing from reporters

As far as Brett Favre(notes) updates go, this one is pretty much like all the others. He's still coming back. He's still not telling anyone about it. He still just wants to miss training camp, but doesn't want to say that out loud, because he thinks we are all very, very dumb.

But his ankle appears to be fully functional.

Favre's been practicing with a high school team in Mississippi, because that's what you do when you're like a little kid and you just like to have fun out there. According to a very brief AP article on the subject, the recently repaired ankle looks just fine.

Brett Favre looks like he’s getting along just fine on that surgically repaired ankle.

Favre worked out with some youngsters at Oak Grove High School in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Monday, then eluded reporters looking to ask him about his future by running to his truck and driving away.

As you likely know, I'm not a Favre fan, but I will say this. After last week's shameful display from ESPN, LeBron James and society, I'm happy to see any athlete moving away from reporters. It's a nice change of pace from LeBron running towards reporters, screaming "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! DON'T YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE I'M TAKING MY TALENTS?"

Of course, there's no such mystery with Favre. It's become pretty clear that he'll be taking his talents back to NFL fields this fall.

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Favre admits he's coming back (without actually doing so)

So, as the offseason rolls on, and other stories take the landscape, we're about due for a Brett Favre(notes) update. After all, our favorite retired/non-retired quarterback can't go too long without letting us know of his plans (even if there are none), thus moving the attention back to him, right?

Mercifully, for those who can't go too long without those Favre-isms, we now have an update. In a recent interview with the Biloxi Sun Herald, Minnesota's alleged starting quarterback discussed his thoughts about a return for a 20th NFL season. "I know I can still play at a high level," Favre told the paper. "Last year was a great year, but it could have been better (losing NFC Championship). When (Vikings head coach Brad) Childress came to my home a few weeks ago, he told me to take my time. But the team would need to know at some point."

Of course, when he's talking about the potential for the season to be better, Favre means the Vikings' overtime loss in the NFC Championship game. The league has already changed postseason overtime rules in a retroactive move that disclosed how many wanted that game to turn out differently, and Favre obviously doesn't disagree. "I would love to go beat the Saints," Favre said. "I want to win every game that I play. People tell me all the time to go beat the Saints and redeem yourself." The Saints and Vikings will stage a rematch to open the 2010 season on Thursday, Sept. 9.

"People said the same thing with Green Bay the year before. It was, ‘You have to go back and beat Green Bay.' I don't want to be in my 20th year and hear people say, ‘You have to redeem yourself.' Like I said, I would love to go beat the Saints. But what if that doesn't happen?"

Ah ... there's the mystery. What if it doesn't happen? In answering that question, I think it's important to remember that if he were to actually retire for good now, Favre's stints with his last two teams would be remembered for late NFC Championship game interceptions that turned the tide against his squad. There was the pick against the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants in the 2007 season, and the pick to soon-to-be Super Bowl hero Tracy Porter(notes) in Minnesota's 31-28 loss. In both games, Favre put up a 70-ish quarterback rating and fell short of his ultimate goal.

Favre also hurt his ankle against the Saints, but surgery has apparently been successful. Now, all that's left is for the decision to be made. Favre is well aware that his vacillating on this subject drives people crazy (though not as crazy as the constant media overcooking whenever he makes a non-statement), but he's still making up his mind. Or so he says.

‘‘I just don't know. I do not want to stir the pot. If it (the comment) comes from me, it's a big deal. At my age, all surgeries are major. The three I've had on the same ankle were considered minor, but major to me. It feels fine now. If my body was a wreck, the decision would be made. But that is not the case. I know they (Vikings) want to know.

‘‘Hell, I want to know. But I am not going to press it. If I do not play, it does not cost the Vikings a dime. They keep the $13 million (he would be owed this season). I know they have confidence in the players they have. They had a chance to draft (Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy) Clausen in the first round, but they didn't want (him)."

Probably because the Vikings know, just as the rest of us know, that Favre will come back for another go. In the meantime, he'll be ruled by his need to control the drama he creates with his frequent silence and occasional statements.

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Agonizing Favre process now dependent on ankle surgery

Now that the draft is over and the long offseason walk begins, it's time to dust off the underground shelter and break out the canned goods -- it is most certainly time for yet another Favreapalooza/Favrewatch/"Oh my God, please make it stop" event.

ESPN's Ed Werder broke the news this morning that Brett Favre will need ankle surgery if he wants to play in 2010. That according to Dr. James Andrews, the physician of choice for most football players, in regard to the ankle Favre injured in the Vikings' NFC Championship loss to the New Orleans Saints.

Of course, we've been through this before. Last season, Favre needed surgery on his throwing shoulder before he could enter what has become a very special decision-making time for him -- a time that generally involves an insane degree of media overkill, press conferences announcing absolutely nothing and summers in which diehard football fans who would prefer other types of NFL news go hungry. That said, Favre did have one of his best seasons for the Vikings in 2009, and most people assume that he'll be back to try for another shot at the Super Bowl.

Favre, in an e-mail to ESPN, had this to say:

"To play again, I would need the surgery, as I suspected. This decision would be easy if not for my teammates and the fans and the entire Vikings staff. One year truly felt like 10 -- much like Green Bay for many years. That's what I was missing in my heart I suppose, a sense of belonging.''

There it is, America -- you're on the clock again. The slow news season, the constant updates, the needless speculation, Ed Werder and Scott Hansen camped out on a Kiln, Mississippi driveway for two months ... you can "look forward" to all of it. Favre will turn 41 on October 10, and it will most likely be August before we actually know what he'll do. As for me, I'm off to the Shutdown Corner Underground Bunker. Someone please flip me a message when the man has made up his mind.

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