Sick of Favre?

So you’re sick of Alex Rodriguez, are you? Can’t endure another syllable? Begging for relief?

Well, here it is: Brett Favre is being re-inflated as the next quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, if you believe the rapidly overheating rumor mill.

Yes, Brett Favre, whom you all were already quite sick to death of last offseason when he was having his high-tech power pout with Ted Thompson and the Green Bay Packers, is back in the media salad-spinner because he:

n Asked for and received his release from the Jets, which a retiree wouldn’t need if all he planned to do was fish.

n Hasn’t re-declared his firm and unshakable intention not to play NFL football again.

n Hasn’t announced a detente with the Packers.

n Has noticed the Vikings still have a quarterback issue, and still play the Packers twice a year.

Now it might be that Favre doesn’t come back, thus avoiding the burden of being the Sugar Ray Leonard of his generation. But his name is roiling about yet again, which is about the only thing that can save Rodriguez from being pounded around the face and neck by Selena Roberts’ book.

While the arguments about sourcing and overkill and attack-the-messenger go on and on, Rodriguez is still a hot-button subject for most people, and he doesn’t do particularly well just on what already has been verified.

Still, few people are as sick of A-Rod as they are of Favre, and because we know the way these things work, if Favre pops out of the rabbit hole and says he wants to be a Viking … well, put it this way: Nobody will ever be more supportive of Favre’s return than Rodriguez, and he doesn’t even like the Vikings.

Unless, of course, that’s something else in the book we don’t know.

E-mail Ray Ratto at rratto@sfchronicle.com.