Well, it's over ...

... our long national nightmare, that is.  The Brett Favre Saga has reportedly come to an end within the last half hour as he has been traded from the Green Bay Packers to the New York Jets.

The only people happy that this thing has been going on and on and on and on and on for the last few weeks are the ones at ESPN.   They haven't had to think about programming SportsCenter for the last two or three weeks.  Just throw some Favre news on there and go with it.

Reminds me of the old line about CBS Sports' coverage of the NFL when the network had the NFC:  "When in doubt, give 'em the Cowboys."  

Now, thankfully, we can start to move off the Favre story somewhat -- although we'll now to have a whole week of stories about how his first few days of "Favre-with-the-Jets" stories -- and move on to the beginning of college football, great pennant races, etc.

Oh, and someone mentioned to me before this whole Favre thing begin to get play on even cable news channels that we had a Presidential election coming up in three months, two wars going on in the Middle East and gas was at $4 a gallon.  Crazy talk.