Minnesota Vikings QB, Brett Favre, turned 41 on Sunday. In NFL years, that’s older than dirt.

The Vikings are in New York tonight to take on the Jets. The Jets…didn’t Favre play a year with the Jets? Oh yes, in 2008.

The Jets also employed a young lady named Jenn Sterger when Favre was there. That’s when the story gets interesting. Supposedly Ms. Sterger “may” have received some text and voicemail messages from Favre and, oh yeah, some photos.

There are also some other people coming forward…kind of reminds me of the Tiger Woods situation. The snowball effect.

You can read it all at Deadspin.com.

Supposedly, the NFL is investigating the whole thing. Favre could be suspended or fined or both if the allegations prove to be true. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has come down hard for violations of the league’s personal conduct policy.

Tonight, ESPN covers the game. It will be Favre’s 289th straight start. I imagine they were hoping the news would be Randy Moss rejoining the Vikings and Favre taking on his former team. I doubt that’s the biggest news story. As my favorite sports columnist, Jason Whitlock, writes about sexism in sports, “…we can no longer avoid the elephant on the field.”

It will be interesting to see how the three ESPN announcers handle the situation. One of the announcers has reportedly been down this road before.

As fans we hold sports figures in high regard. That’s the first problem with society.

Second, in the world of 24/7 news, text messages, Twitter, Facebook, etc., for someone to send racy messages and photos is pretty dumb. You can’t blame the receiver of the messages or those who write stories about the messages. The problem lies with the sender, period.

Third, Favre is married. If he did send this messages what does that say about him – and what does it do to his family (his wife and two daughters).

And finally as a Favre fan, if these allegations prove to be true, I and thousands of other fans will be in for another disappointment from someone we thought of highly – but that is becoming the norm in the sports world today.