And like all good magicians, The Amazing Childress isn't giving away any secrets.
"I didn't have any allusions one way or the other. I didn't know where that thing would head,''
Childress said of cell-phone conversations from the spring of 2008 between Favre and Childress or Vikings offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, providing the sparks of the great Favre-unretirement-to-Minnesota blaze burning now.
"Obviously, he goes to the Jets, and I think I heard about provisions that if he was ever traded, he couldn't be traded back to the division or la la la la.