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We may all need to start coming to terms with the possibility that Brett Favre is the dumbest man in America. Heck of a quarterback, but dumb. Check this out:

It’s not as poetically idiotic as Chris Henry getting arrested while wearing his own jersey, but this one’s in the same neighborhood.

Remember those tampering charges that the Packers filed against the Vikings? And remember how I thought it would be difficult for the Packers to prove that Favre had made inappropriate contact with the Vikings?

Well, that assumed that Brett Favre wasn’t using a Packers-issued cell phone to make those calls to the Vikings. As it turns out, Favre may have done exactly that.

From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

…Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had an interesting bit of information in a piece he wrote about the quarterback today.

McGinn writes that a source said Favre had continued to use a Packers-issued cell phone and that when the team checked the phone records it found “repeated calls to coach Brad Childress and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.”

The possibility of Favre having used a phone issued by the Packers had been speculated on last week after the Associated Press reported that Green Bay informed the NFL it felt “an investigation of the phone records would show more than ‘normal contact’ between the Vikings and Favre, even before he formally asked for his release to play for another team.”

In fairness to Favre, it should be mentioned that any phone calls he made to the Vikings were made in a gunslinging fashion, and through the entire conversation, he looked like a kid out there, just having fun.

Say this turns out to be true, and tampering by the Vikings can be proved. And say that the Packers do what they’re expected to do, and block Favre from playing for the Vikings. Favre could end up costing the Vikings draft picks and fines while never playing a down for them, while also putting the Packers in this miserable position.

Give him a couple more weeks, and he might just find a way to tear down the entire NFC North.

Last night was a huge night for MMA fans all over the world. The two best pound for pound fighters on planet earth (arguably) were both on display, but with different organizations.

Neither man disappointed, with each delivering knockouts in a minute or less.

Fedor Emelienenko knocked Tim Sylvia to the canvas and proceeded to choke him out. It took a grand total of 36 seconds. For Fedor to dominate Sylvia in such a fashion is truly unbelievable, as Sylvia had both the reach advantage and, according to many, the striking advantage on the feet.

As for Anderson Silva, he moved up from the 185 pound middleweight class to the 205 pound light heavyweight class and faced a great striker in James Irvin. The only problem was that Silva is maybe the greatest striker in all of MMA, and he proved it by catching Irvin’s right leg kick and absolutely blasting him in the face, opening up a huge cut on Irvin and ending the fight. Fight total: 61 seconds.

The real question is, “Who was the most impressive?” Because each fighter dominated his opponent and in such a fashion, we really didn’t get any definitive answers about who is the pound for pound best. Silva’s fans will say he looked the best; Fedor’s fans will say he looked the best. The fact is, both were incredible. And since we’ll never really see the two guys fight each other, we probably won’t get any answers. Either way, they’re both gonna be dominating for a long time.

Here’s a couple of video clips of me rolling with some of my friends. Just kinda impromptu in the garage, but still a couple of good armbars and a cool teepee, if that’s what you’re into…

One guy is a member of our US Armed Forces, but at his request, I won’t tell you which branch…