My hear seriously just sunk in my chest. The biggest sports name in Wisconsin and the best quarterback I’ll see in my lifetime – Brett Favre – is retiring after 17 seasons, according to ESPN.

I was hoping that after last week’s accidental retirement page on the team’s Web site that Brett would come back for another season, and most sports talking heads thought he would. But it turns out the Pack will be under the relatively untested and far more breakable hand of Aaron Rodgers next season.

I understand that pitchers and catchers report soon, but that’s about as far as I can take my grasp on the supposed pastime of America – baseball.

I come from Wisconsin, where the four seasons are much different than the rest of the nation. While Minnesotans enjoy spring, summer, fall and winter, we in Wisconsin enjoy spring, summer, deer hunting season, and Packer season. Professional baseball – in the form of the Milwaukee Brewers – has always been an afterthought to the green and gold of Lambeau field. I never had a chance to understand baseball.

It’s been about a day and a half since the unthinkable happened – the Packers’ loss in the NFC championship game – and I feel like I might finally be turning a corner. Yesterday, I wouldn't read any sports news online, and I refused to watch any ESPN. But today, I think I might watch ESPN when I get home, and I’m even willing to think about football again today for the first time. I think I'll still probably skip any stories about the game, though.

I wish I could be in Lambeau for this Sunday’s game. It’s going to be cold and awesome.

Fantasy sports-wise, it wasn’t my best weekend of the year, but it certainly wasn’t a bad one. While I continue my free fall from the top of the Pick’em leader board, I advanced to the next round in both my Otte Football League and Wooddale Football League fantasy football playoffs.

Yesterday may go down in my personal history books as the best Sunday ever. It was like a perfect storm of all things good and great about professional football.

Am I the only Packer backer in Jordan?

Forget all this baseball garbage. It’s almost time for it to be close to being a month away from the start of the next National Football League season! Hooray!

I love reading the rumor mill when it comes to professional sports.