And thank the Lord it’s over. My God. That took longer than any of us ever anticipated.

My least favorite team in the NFL is the Patriots — who does like those guys, anyway? — and now I’ll get to see my two least favorite teams play each other twice a year. I never had a problem with the Jets before — Mangini seems cool, and he was the one that let the cat out of the bag on the whole Spygate thing — but Brett Favre is someone I can never root for again, given how long he’s made us put up with his “retirment” talk.

It’s been four years we’ve put up with it, and we all thought we were free from it when he suddenly retired on March 6. Look for another two or three years of this; hope you’re ready, Jets fans. He had no issues screwing over a team that was loyal to him for 16 years. I don’t think he’ll have a probably having you on pins and needles for the next three or four.

I’m going to set the over/under at 20.5 for interceptions that Brett Favre throws this year. And my bet’s on the over.