ESPN NFL Countdown features Brett Favre's return, ex teammates speak out

NFL Countdown airs this Sunday at 11 a.m. on ESPN. Future Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre holds up his new Minnesota Vikings jersey while standing along side Vikings owner Ziggi Wilf and Mark Wilf during a press conference held at the Minnesota Vikings practice facility in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA, on 18 August 2009. EPA/ANDY BLENKUSH

Future Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre holds up his new Minnesota Vikings jersey while standing along side Vikings owner Ziggi Wilf and Mark Wilf during a press conference held at the Minnesota Vikings practice facility in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA, on 18 August 2009. EPA/ANDY BLENKUSHBrett Favre has been gone from Green Bay for 1-1/2 seasons. He has played for two other teams. He has played against, and beaten, the Packers on Monday Night Football. But according to ESPN producers, Favre comes back to Lambeau Field wearing another team's jersey as another team's quarterback, to face a welcome of a different kind. If fans are conflicted about his return, they're not the only ones. Tom Rinaldi sits down with former Packers -- Favre's old teammates, and retired Green Bay legends -- to discuss their feelings on Favre coming back as, of all things, a Viking. From the piece: "In that uniform, people don't like you and I think Brett is going to have to understand that. There's going to be a percentage of people that are going to boo him." -- Leroy Butler, Favre's former teammate "If you were married for 25 years, you divorce and marry her sister… that is what it looks like. You can't do that!" said Butler "I loved Brett as a Packer. I loved him as a person, and I never saw a better football player. And for him to be in a Viking uniform, (it) turns my heart cold." -- Fuzzy Thurston, Packer great "I think of him as a traitor. He let millions of Packer fans down. That's why it hurts. They are going to boo him and they are going to try to run him right off the field." Said Thurston