So Brett Favre reported to Packers training camp, but he didn’t practice. He seemed prepared to compete with Aaron Rodgers for the starting job . . . and then he wasn’t so prepared for the “open competition” with Green Bay’s Quarterback of the Future.

Favre met with Packers coach Mike McCarthy. Favre met with general manager Ted Thompson. And as Tuesday afternoon drug on, he seemed more confused than ever about the situation.

How can we sleep at night while this issue remains unresolved?

“Mike told me, hey, we’re a better team with you on it but wanted to know if I have a problem with an open competition,” Favre told ESPN. “I don’t have a problem with competing — you know that, but Aaron should be the starter right now because he’s been out here all this time. This is more than about an open competition and I can do that, absolutely, but this is going to be mass confusion and that’s not good for this team.

“I’ll practice my butt off, if it comes to that, and I think we all know what the end result will be, but this probably isn’t going to work. And I truly understand that if I was in Mike’s shoes, I’d see it basically the same way he sees it, I’m sure. And I think if he was in my shoes, he’d see it my way. I think we both agree on that.

“They want to know if I’m committed but I want to know if they’re 100 percent committed. The problem is that there’s been a lot of damage done and I can’t forget it. Stuff has been said, stories planted, that just aren’t true. Can I get over all that? I doubt it.”

So now Favre wants to be traded to another NFC North team. Or he wants to be released. Or he wants a tuna sandwich on rye.

One thing is for sure: McCarthy does not want him to quarterback his team.

“The train has left the station, whatever analogy you want. He needs to jump on the train and let’s go. Or, if we can’t get past things that have happened, I have to keep the train moving,” McCarthy told reporters Tuesday afternoon.

Apparently Favre is feeling wounded these days.

“That’s part of the issue with him, quite frankly,” McCarthy said. “And listening to him talk about that, you respect his opinion. And frankly, I told him, I said, ‘I’ll take responsibility because I have a voice in the building.’ I never thought he truly was going to play. I thought he was emotionally driven for other reasons.”

Here is some footage of Favre’s presidential reception Sunday and Monday in Green Bay:

Poor Aaron Rodgers.

Check out some blogger fun that ties the Favre Crisis to the Manny Parra-Prince Fielder bout.

IN OTHER NEWS

Steven Jackson was nowhere to be seen up in Mequon, where Tipsheet will visit next week. We’re shocked — shocked! — that Jay Zygmunt would get into a stare-down with Eugene Parker.

Hopefully Jackson is using his down time to mix a new game-day music track for the Edward Jones Dome . . .

Here is some more fodder on Jackson, from ESPN.com.

Up in Chicago, Alfonso Soriano is going nuts on the Astros. He has four RBI and counting with the Cubs up over the Astros 10-7 in the seventh. Think wild-card race, people.