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For each of the past three years, I've always been pulling for Brett Favre to come back. Being a long-term Packers fan growing up at the tail end of the Lombardi years, Favre brought me back to the game that I too played in the snow in Wisconsin.
Even though I've been living in California since 1980, I remain a steadfast Packer fan, and Favre is clearly one of the reasons.
But as I contemplated how all of the surprising success of 2008 must have felt to Favre, and how now it seemed the rest of the world wanted him to come back, I -- for the first time -- began feeling like maybe it was the perfect moment to hang it all up.