It had felt like something was missing in all the latest Brett Favre brouhaha. But that something returned today with a vengeance, and better than anyone else has, Peter King laid out the dilemmas facing both the Packers and Brett Favre at the moment.

There are two things Peter King is confident of:

1) Brett Favre, sometime in the next ten days, will officially request that he be removed from the NFL's retired/reserved list, and

2) The Packers would rather change the name of Lambeau Field to "Tony Mandarich Field" than see Brett Favre return.

They don't want him on their team (King used the phrases "makes the Packers wretch" and "desperately want Favre to stay retired"), and the only thing they might want less than that is to see him playing for the Vikings or Bears.

So if taking him back isn't an option, and giving him an outright release (which would likely lead to Favre being a Viking or a Bear) isn't an option, that leaves trade ... and best of luck walking the streets of Green Bay, Ted Thompson, if you end up being the guy who traded Brett Favre for a pack of gum.

There's still the option of telling Favre to stick it, and if they absolutely have to, welcoming Brett Favre back onto the team, but carrying him as a 3rd quarterback and making him play special teams. This is completely unrealistic, obviously, even though I think it would be fun.

King says the best bet might be for the Packers to try to talk Brett Favre out of unretiring, and given that that seems like a real longshot, it really illustrates just what a bind the Packers are in.

No matter what happens here, it's almost certainly going to end with the Packers being unhappy, or at the very least, upsetting their fanbase.