OK, please believe us when we say the last things we want to be talking about right now are 1) Brett Favre and 2) ESPN.com polls. But the mush-mindedness of the American sporting public — fed by the equally squishy-brained Worldwide Leader — leaves us no choice. We will point first to a poll we saw on SportsCenter last night. It asked: Which team will represent the AFC in the Super Bowl (exact phrasing might have differed slightly). The choices: Colts, Chargers, Jets, Patriots, Some Other Team.

Are you serious? Well, apparently 9.9 percent of folks thought enough of the question to pick the Jets. How irritated does this make the Jacksonville Jaguars, Tennessee Titans and every other legitimate AFC challenger?

The second thing we point to is a poll up on the SportsNation that asks: “Which team will win more games this season?” Your options are the Green Bay Packers (who were 13-3 last year) and the New York Jets (who were 4-12 last year). And right now, after 165,000+ votes, it’s a dead heat at 50 percent each. Yes, Brett Favre is still a better QB than Aaron Rodgers. But we’re still of the mind that the Jets are, at best, an 8-8 team next year, while the Packers are, at worst, an 8-8 team. The Jets are at Seattle, at Tennessee and at San Diego. They play New England twice. That’s five losses.

Yes, we’ve been in the camp that says Favre makes a team better. But he doesn’t immediately make his new mediocre team better than his old very solid team. So please, America, we beg you: come to your senses.

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