Wait, you’re not going to believe how funny Brett Favre is! Stop us if you’ve heard this one: He allegedly took a dead animal, likely some sort of bird and (snicker … shhhh!) put it in the locker (muffled laughter!) of a New York Jets teammate (all-out laugh riot!). Yeah, that’s it. That’s the punchline. No, he really did that. It’s funny! No, it’s not gross! It’s not distasteful. It just shows that he’s back! Brett is back! He’s having fun! See:

Favre is notorious for shenanigans involving lockers, and since his arrival to the Jets in August, the tradition has apparently continued. The latest victim? (Eric) Barton.

Barton could not remember whether it happened last week or the week before. Nor did he know exactly what kind of dead animal Favre shot (presumably), bagged and dumped inside Barton’s locker.

Some teammates believe it was a wild turkey, but regardless, they all gathered around Barton’s locker and engaged in fits of laughter. The dead animal was inside a bag that was filled with blood and guts.

“It definitely had the wow factor,” said left guard Alan Faneca, whose locker is next to Barton’s. “I’ve never had a dead animal brought into the locker room, so yeah, it’s up there.”

Faneca assumed that Favre was the perpetrator. Barton refused to name a suspect, but did say that “I hope that the animal rights activists find out about it, whoever did it, that cruel person.”

Asked if this was an example of how Favre was fitting into the Jets’ locker room, Faneca said: “He fits because of his personality. He likes to have a good time and joke around and have fun while you’re doing it. That’s the way we should be doing things out here.”

Two things: 1) We enjoy how it is never really established, but rather assumed, that this was the work of Favre and nobody else. 2) Cuing PETA in 3 … 2 … 1 …

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