I think you’ve hit it right on the head Candy. For the past several years it’s been months and months of will he / won’t he. A roller coaster every year; and every time a rumor surfaced the station that I watch the most interrupted programming to let us know what was going on. Sure, the first time he did it, it was a big decision, but year after year after… it got really old. It was similar to an unhealthy relationship, to feel loved, he had to put you through hell to see if you’d stand by him.

When he held the conference after the announcement of his retirement, we all cried. He even said this must be what it’s like when you die, I’ve seen my own funeral. It was an end of an era, a hero is gone forever. Fans mourned the loss. It really was like a death. It was acceptable for grown men to tear up in public; you quite literally couldn’t go anywhere in the city of Green Bay without hearing conversations about his greatness and what the future might hold without him. And just as the wound was beginning to heal, he was on Letterman making odd vague comments. Hope was born only to be dashed again.

He has put the organization that gave him his chance in a seriously awkward position. He KNOWS his fans will fight for him, give him anything he wants but at what cost? My irritation stems from a feeling of being manipulated.