We all knew this day was coming. Brett Favre sorta maybe kinda thinks he wants to play football again. His family reportedly supports the decision. There is no doubt his Packers teammates would love him back. Packers fans would celebrate. His coach Mike McCarthy would probably love to take one last run with the legend. Even other NFL teams may like to see Favre return. But none of the above have the power to decide to let Favre back, if he really wanted to scratch that "itch to play" again.

GM Ted Thompson runs the Packers. And the Packers have built this entire offseason on moving on from Favre, something Thompson was ready for. I doubt Thompson wants Favre back.

"Brett's a high-quality person and he's not going to push it that far," a team source told Chris Mortensen. "He'll do the right thing [and stay retired]."

In the quietest of times during the NFL news cycle, leave it up to Brett Favre to stir up some soap opera worthy drama. Somewhere, Aaron Rodgers is stewing.

Update:According to the Wisconsin State Journal, they don't want him back. And won't release him.