I'm on record as saying that I believe Brett Favre(notes) becoming a Viking is a matter of "when", and not "if". According to the latest scurrilous Favre rumors, we can throw "if" completely out the window, because the "when" has already gone down.

The rumor goes like this: Favre has already signed a contract with the Vikings, and he and the team are just waiting to announce it.

ProFootballTalk.com (surprise, surprise) is the source of the rumor, and their source is a military officer currently serving in Afghanistan. If that strikes you as odd, I promise you, you're not alone. PFT then took the info to another source, who would neither confirm or deny it.

So there it is, take it or leave it. For myself, I'm going to choose to leave it, as I don't know what the Vikings or Favre would gain by delaying a decision (other than some extended spotlight time for Favre, but even I don't want to be that cynical about him). It would seem to me that the best thing for both parties would be to wait until they're both certain, and when they are, just get the announcement over and done with as soon as possible.

And why would one of our nation's brave young men or women in Afghanistan have this news before, say, Peter King? Well, I have a theory about that, too. Hold on to your hats.

I think our military has a secret "Favre Squad" hunting down terrorists in Afghanistan, and as a modern warfare tactic, they constantly pelt them every day with news and rumors of Brett Favre's return to the NFL. It's a form of psychological torture designed to make terrorists give themselves up out of sheer, overwhelming annoyance. Ideally, we'd see terrorists waving white flags, throwing down their guns and turning themselves into U.S. forces while crying, "WHY? WHY? Why cannot this Favre man make up his mind? Does he know how annoying he is? Allah, PLEASE, make this man stop."

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