Here is another unique take on the whole Brett Favre Fiasco.  This one comes from Mike Florio at PFT:

1.  Chilly isn’t in charge, after all.

Well, when you dance with the devil in the pale moonlight, sometimes the devil puts his pitchfork right up your ass.

Vikings coach Brad Childress is walking funny this morning, for that very reason.  In an effort to save his job, he chased quarterback Brett Favre for months, letting the wishy-washy player waffle in and out of unretirement, even though it meant missing valuable time preparing for the season.  And when Favre finally arrived in Minnesota, Childress personally drove Brett from the airport to the team facility.

But from the moment Favre referred publicly to his personal chauffeur as “Chilly,” a distinct vibe emerged that Favre was equal to or above his boss, and that Chilly’s job included letting Favre do whatever in the hell he wants.

It’s now clear that Favre can do whatever in the hell he wants.  Last night, Chilly tried to pull Favre out of the game in the third quarter with the Vikings leading by a point, and Favre refused to leave.

“[T]here was a heated discussion, I guess you would call it,” Favre said after the game.  “We were up 7-6 at the time.  No secret, I was getting hit a little bit.  I felt the pressure on a lot of plays.  We had seven points.  So I think everyone in the building was like, ‘They’re not moving the ball, they’re not getting points.’  Brad wanted to go in adifferent direction and I wanted to stay in the game.

“We were up 7-6.  Yeah, it’s not 70-6, but we’re up 7-6.  So I said, ‘I’m staying in the game, I’m playing.’  I don’t know if it was exactly to protect me, or we had seven points, I’m not sure.  That’s his call.  But we talked it out.  We didn’t have time, I didn’t have time to sit there and say why or what.  My response was, we’ve got to win this ballgame and I want to stay in and do whatever I can.  Now, unfortunately, I didn’t do that, but that was my intention.”

But there shouldn’t have even been a heated discussion or a non-heated discussion or any other discussion.  Chilly is the coach, Favre is the player.  When the coach decides to take a player out, the player comes out.

Except in Minnesota, where the coach has created a monster, and the monster has decided to turn on Dr. Frankenchilly.

Last night, Chilly likely backed down in part because he didn’t want the situation to become a distraction, given that Favre tends to run his mouth about anything and everything, especially when a microphone is in his field of vision.  But even though Chilly placated Favre, there he was after the game, bitching about the fact that Chilly wanted Favre to do something Favre didn’t want to do.

It’s hard to blame Brett for this, because anyone who has been following the NFL for the past several years realizes that Brett was just being Brett.  But Chilly knew or should have known what he was getting himself into, and he knew or should have known that bringing Brett into the building means letting Brett do whatever he wants.

Though the experiment has gotten Chilly off the hot seat via a contract extension, this unwanted new dynamic will make it hard for Chilly to justify his new salary with a playoff win — and it makes Chilly generally look like a buffoon.

But, hey, if Brett decides in late August that he wants to play again in 2010, Chilly will be waiting at the airport holding a placard that reads “Favre” on the front and “I’m Brett’s bitch” on the back.