GREEN BAY -- Here's the latest in "As Brett Favre's World Turns" ...

> WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee reported Monday night that the retired-for-now Green Bay Packers quarterback sent a text message to general manager Ted Thompson on Saturday, wanting to talk. According to the station, which did not identify the source of the information, Thompson replied with a text saying that he is on vacation and the two would have to wait to talk until he returns.

 Much of the Packers' front-office staff is on vacation -- including Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy -- and their voicemails state they will return to the office on July 21.

> Before leaving on vacation, Thompson was asked by the Green Bay Press-Gazette about the perception that the organization hadn't done enough to talk Favre into playing an 18th NFL season.

 "I never understood that, quite frankly," Thompson said. "We went about this offseason the way we have the last several, making sure Brett knew that Mike (McCarthy) and I both felt he's still a good player, can still play the game, can still win and that our team was going to be in a position to win.

 "I think that's what a veteran looks for: Do we have a chance to win? And can I still play?

 "Other than that, it's not my place to try to convince someone that they're making a bad decision or a good decision. It's my place to say, these are the facts as I see them, now it's up to you and Deanna to make your choice."

> Sports Illustrated's Peter King chimed in on the Favre saga with a column at SI.com on Monday. There was one piece of news that jumped out: That the Packers had sent "an intermediary" to Favre's Hattiesburg, Miss., home to "try to talk some sense into him," which would seem to translate to "try to talk him into staying retired."

 King also reported that McCarthy told Favre during their most recent conversation that he's putting the team in a difficult position, and that -- as the State Journal had reported last week -- Thompson had not returned repeated calls from Favre's agent, James "Bus" Cook, in recent weeks.

 King also wrote that he expects -- his opinion, not based on information culled from sources -- that Cook would request that Favre be taken off the NFL's reserve/retired list within the next 10 days.