Flip side of Favre's flip-flop

The "flip-flop" isn't necessarily a character flaw.

Changing one's mind gets a bad rap sometimes because we've become conditioned into believing that it reflects internal weakness. Staying the course -- even if it's the wrong course -- somehow echoes a sturdiness of character, even though the path potentially leads toward the edge of a cliff.

Brett Favre is now officially a self-absorbed diva, transforming in a matter of days from the Contented Warrior to the Conflicted Egotist.

But he's only guilty of career uncertainty. If that's a crime of depleted integrity, then we'll all stand convicted at some point in our lives.

Favre has every right to his indecisiveness in something so personally important. But so, too, do the Green Bay Packers have every right to their decisiveness in something so professionally important. The Packers cannot commit unlimited time to a superstar who ...