An ESPN.com poll asks: Would you rather see your favorite team start the season with Brett Favre or its current starting QB. The result (as of 93,309 votes in): 43 percent of America wants Favre, 57 percent wants “other guy.” Broken down by their handy “map” feature, we see that 60 percent of Minnesota wants Favre, while 69 percent of Wisconsin wants Favre. All those numbers — which we were alerted to by Mike M. — seem somewhat strange. First, how quickly a nation turns on a legend. Yeah, he’s acted like a Grade A clown, but unless you root for the Colts, Patriots or a handful of other teams, why wouldn’t you want Favre? Second, can it really be that the love for Brett Favre in Wisconsin is merely 9 percent greater than it is here (yeah, we know the math works a little differently, but you get our drift)? Is that a commentary on Aaron Rodgers vs. Tarvaris Jackson or is it something much more?

Oh, and many thanks to Sassbottom for making for us that screen grab of ESPN.COM’S WALL-TO-WALL FAVRE SCREAMATHON. Sweet mercy. And those were just stories posted in the last 12 minutes*. (Note: We don’t know how to make screen grabs. We fail at the Internet).

*May or may not be true.

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