The world stopped yesterday for about three and half hours to witness Brett Favre's return to Lambeau.  At least it seemed that way with the way it was portrayed on every television station.  We even had a Brett Favre cam that followed him everywhere throughout the game, which basically let us see him shoot off about ten snot rockets on the sidelines.  The big story of the game was what will the crowd's reaction be? Will he get booed?  Will he get cheered?  We found out quickly it was a definitive mixed reaction; and a mixed reaction is what it should be.  There was so much speech and analysis about why fans should love the legend of Brett Favre; how he gave his all to Green Bay and people should respect that.  The other side differed in opinion and thought that by signing to an in-division rival team that Brett vilified himself.  So we didn't really learn which side was the majority, but we should learn that it's okay to disagree.  Disagreement is part of sports and there's nothing wrong with some people hating and some people loving.   We could debate back and forth for years about who is right in this argument so let's agree to disagree, it's more fun that way.

Sports is about the love of competition.  Debates are a competition and disagreement creates debates.  Every facet of sports creates debates.  Just think about some of the stuff we debate about.  Each week we get a made up power rankings for all the NFL teams that mean absolutely nothing and people take it to heart.  We constantly debate on if Lebron James can be the next coming of Michael Jordan.  We debate on what baseball players should be in the Hall of Fame when the only people who have a say are the baseball writers.  We make up questions that can never be answered just for the sake of argument.  The funny part about it is that people don't debate because they love to debate; people debate because they love to be right.  Fans have almost created their own sport just by constantly debating about everything possible in sports.  Look at some of the more popular shows on ESPN.  Pardon the Interruption, First and 10, and Around the Horn are all based around sports arguments and professional journalists or analysts are paid to debate.  So in our sports world where debating is critical in claiming how much of a sports fanatic we are we still need to understand that sometimes there is no definitive answer.  We won't know who the best NFL team is until the Super Bowl is played and we won't know if Lebron James will be better then Michael Jordan until his career is over.  So Brett Favre may be considered a villain by some and a legend by others, but so be it.  This is the state of our sports world and that's how it should be.

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