Is America obsessive about Brett Farve? The QB to watch…Micheal Vick just fell off the map, when Farve joined camp.

Today I have quest writer:

ISRAEL GUTIERREZ from the Miami Herald… with Just my opinion.

New Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre looks on during NFL football training camp, in Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009 in Eden Prairie, Minn.

The 39-year-old quarterback took a plane to Minnesota on Tuesday, drove to Vikings training camp and was in a helmet and pads less than 90 minutes after arriving.

New Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre looks on during NFL football training camp, in Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009 in Eden Prairie, Minn. The 39-year-old quarterback took a plane to Minnesota on Tuesday, drove to Vikings training camp and was in a helmet and pads less than 90 minutes after arriving.

Favre was for retirement before he was against it

It’s worth remembering one more time that Brett Favre was for retirement before he was against it.

So even if you believe the guy is genuinely conflicted, as opposed to selfish, you’ve got to admit: It’s quite a coincidence that Favre has managed to retire twice in 11 months without missing a single game.

What’s really shocking is not that he’s back, or that the Vikings front office broke nearly every rule in the book about team-building to make it happen. Or that closing in on 40, Favre is willing to risk getting hurt or turning his legacy into a permanent punchline.

Brett Favre is a Viking: That’s all I came back for is to win’

Hundreds of fans flocked to the Vikings’ practice complex late Tuesday morning, awaiting his arrival. Satellite trucks and cameras littered the grass just across the street from Winter Park. Security was stationed in the parking lot and on the roof. A helicopter hovered.

And then at 12:10 p.m., CDT the focus of long flirtation arrived.

Brett Favre was a Viking.

All of this Michael Vick stuff must have worked Brett Favre up into a lather.

After watching from afar as Vick’s jaw-dropping signing by the Philadelphia Eagles was followed by the “Weekend of Vick” on news outlets nationwide, Favre decided he could do us one better.

And just when our jaws were beginning to heal, too.

How does Brett Favre compare with other 40-year-old NFL quarterbacks?

Only one quarterback in NFL history has made the Pro Bowl at age 40 or older, and none has started a playoff game.

Brett Favre and the Vikings hope those things change.

Favre, who turns 40 on Oct. 10, postponed retirement for a second time on Tuesday to play for the Vikings. He will celebrate his birthday a day before the Vikings play at the Rams in St. Louis.

It wasn’t too long ago that any Brett Favre story would draw a roll of the eyes, a sigh and quick click of the remote or mouse.

It was aggravating to watch this grown man waffle, and quite frankly, it was embarrassing for him.

Even the emotional news conference announcing his first retirement (or was it his third — who can remember?) lost all substance when he came back and claimed he was pushed into that choice.

That has long passed, though.

This latest sneak attack from Favre has turned him into — no offense to the Dos Equis guy — the most interesting man in the world.

There’s something about this latest decision to return, just days after saying there was no chance, that makes you want to watch every step that he takes from now on.

This man sucked everyone into his attempt to return from a sad little surgery; made it as mid-America-friendly as possible by working out on a torn-up field with high school students who have gotten more airtime on ESPN than two-thirds of the Dolphins roster; and then made a bold proclamation that he was, officially — again — done.

Now it turns out that was just his way to avoid training camp? That he was, again, deceiving everyone listening just so he can have a few more days off?

It’s impressive in its lack of professionalism. It’s remarkable in its laziness. It’s astounding in its egocentricity.

And what is most extraordinary is that he’s about to get away with all of it because he’s Brett Favre, and he learned long ago that if you break a few records, act like you’re having fun doing it and speak with a charming accent, you’re immediately coated in Teflon.

A SELFISH ACT

Favre apparently was so insistent about skipping training camp that he was willing to risk the health of the locker room he’s about to step in before even introducing himself. There has to be an overwhelming feeling — at least on the offensive side of the team — that they have been duped. And that can only lead to issues as the season progresses.

Thomas Jones and Kerry Rhodes didn’t hold back when it came to questioning Favre after their season together with the New York Jets. So why would any Vikings player choose to when things begin to go wrong in Minnesota?

How could you not want to see how this plays out?

After all the negative publicity he has had to manipulate in recent weeks, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell must be so excited about the attention this will bring to one of his small-market teams he will need a horse tranquilizer just to sit still.

Don’t get confused, though. As interesting as it’s going to be to watch, this still is a despicable act by one of the league’s supposed good guys.

If any player in the league who is held in lower esteem than Favre (and that’s about 99.8 percent of the NFL) was to attempt this, he not only would be ridiculed publicly, he probably would be ostracized by his new teammates.

Favre is doing everything you would advise your 10-year-old son against: putting yourself before the team, not giving yourself every chance to prepare for success, creating tension with teammates. And, yet, he’s welcomed with applause from strangers and helicopters hovering over his first practice.

It’s just another scene, hopefully a closing one, in what has been one of the most dramatic sports stories ever told. Favre’s life isn’t just a movie in waiting. It’s a trilogy that can stand up to the Lord of the Rings epic.

He grew up in a tiny town, where he played five positions for his dad on his high school football team. In college, his exploits included beating Alabama just six weeks after a nasty car accident forced doctors to remove 30 inches of his small intestine. He went from anonymous backup to beloved starter by engineering a game-winning drive in his first real action with Green Bay.

THE LEGEND CONTINUES

He won a Super Bowl. He gifted Michael Strahan a sack record. He had a remarkable passing display one day after his father died — the same father who wouldn’t let him throw even 10 passes a game in high school because they ran a wishbone offense.

His wife fought breast cancer. His family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. He broke every significant passing record. He retired. Came back. Retired. Came back. Retired. Came back. And now he’s wearing the colors of one of his career-long rivals as the world cheers him on — except for, perhaps, members of his own team.

Drama, drama, drama. I mean, it’s at least a miniseries that ESPN can run during those slow summer months. Favre is like that show Lost. It would be incredibly annoying if it didn’t keep sucking you in for more.

Even if it’s now for all the wrong reasons, Favre has become must-see QB.

I guess this is a must see…will you be watching as preseason ends and the real season begins to tell…will Farve effect the Vikings chance to get to the big game.