Well I guess football is a business.

Green Bay proved it last year and Brett Favre is proving it this year. Gone are the days that a star stays with his team for the whole football season. Gone are the days that you get your number retired and watch your old team try to win without you.

Today business is business and it does not matter what you have done in the past or if you have been with a team for 10 years or more.

Just win, baby!

The Bears picked up Jay Cutler and look darn good. The Packers had a good draft and look stronger on defense than last year, and the Vikings, well, they look to need a quarterback.

They are looking at former Green Packers all-star quarterback Brett Favre, and as NFL as a business goes, it is a smart move. The Vikings have a strong defense, a great running game, and an improved offensive line. They are just missing a proven quarterback. Favre is more than a proven quarterback. He is a Hall of Famer with three Most Valuable Player awards and a load of league records.

As a Packers fan, I want to jump up and down and yell, What are you thinking Brett! I want to tell him not to cross the border and to retire and stay a Lambeau legend.

I never want him to wear purple and gold.

Stays green, I say, stay green. The Jets were OK because they were not in the Packers division and, hey, they still wore green.

But, as a football fan and begrudgingly grasper of the NFL as a business, I have come to the realization that it would be a lot of fun to see Favre take on the corporate side of the Packers that put him in this position. Maybe if I think of it as Brett Favre versus Ted Thompson, I can have more fun watching than if it is my beloved Packers taking on a Vikings team led by Brett Favre.

Maybe if I, the person who stood for a picture (see photo) with the Minnesota Viking Cheerleaders while wearing a Favre Green Bay Packers jersey, can just imagine Favre being cheered on by these same cheerleaders — who, by the way, are unbelievably nice and kind — I could gut my way through a game rooting for the Vikes.

Who knows? It could be fun!

Maybe this is what Minnesota and Wisconsin need. Something to just bring them together.

I can just see it now, cheeseheads and purple people eaters uniting as one, watching the game on TV without arguing — sharing cheese nuggets and beer together.

This is probably just the start; I see Badgers fans toasting Gophers fans at sporting events. No more jokes about why the Metrodome is used for a tornado shelter. Answer: because there has not been a touchdown in the dome for years.

I see no more bar fights in Duluth-Superior or Lacrosse, Wis. I see small children dressed likes Vikings playing with other tykes dressed like pieces of cheese. I see families finally sitting together at church before the big border battles twice a year!

Yes, Brett Favre playing for the Vikings makes me happy!

Naaaah! I still hate the Vikes! Go Packers!

Former Tribune Sports Editor Jeff Budlong always said Tribune Publisher Scott Schmeltzer has a man crush on Brett Favre.