The Jets, making their boldest personnel move in team history, last night acquired Brett Favre in a blockbuster trade with the Packers. It's a move that completely alters the face of the Jets franchise and immediately has a chance to make the 2008 season something special. The move gives the Jets their most iconic player since the days of Joe Namath. The compensation to the Packers is believed to be a conditional 2009 third or fourth-round draft pick that could become a first- or second-round pick depending on Favre's performance and the team's success.

Thank you, Football Gods. From the bottom of my transfat-clogged heart, thank you. This proves the power of prayer, because from the moment I first heard Gang Green was in the running for Brettfavre, I've been wearing out a prayer rug, humbly beseeching them to deliver Bayou Hamlet to New York.

Having the Brettfavre circus come to Hempstead is manna from heaven to Patriots fans bloodthirsty for revenge for all the evils done upon them by that fat, thieving weasel Eric Mangini. Because to paraphrase Mayor Menino, Brettfavre is going to be an Alcatraz around Mangina's neck. Of course Jets fans will say "But he was one play from taking Green Bay to the Super Bowl," which we've heard ad nauseum all year. But they're ignoring the fact 2007 was an anomaly. Those terrible passes at the end of the NFC Championship Game were his default setting. That in the years prior to '07, Brettfavre was an embarrassment to himself and to his legacy; that he had played his way off the Top Ten All-Time QBs list. The fact is that Brettfavre has slipped badly in recent years and his committment to offseason conditioning had declined to almost nothing. So after the '06 season, the Packers assigned a personal trainer and paid him $5,000 a week to fly out to Mississippi and see to it that Brettfavre was in shape and ready to go, and he responded with good numbers. So ask yourself this: in the midst of an offseason spent tearfully retiring, then unretiring, bitching for his job back, flying to Packers camp, having six hour meetings with the coach, then flying home without taking a snap, then forcing a trade... where in all that has Brettfavre gotten himself ready to play a season of NFL football?

And now a reader poll: In the two games the Jets play vs. the Patriots this year, how many INTs will Brettfavre throw? I'm putting the over/under at 8.