The “Favre will retire” link on the Packers’ web site is now dead.  But the question of why the team’s official site had a live page proclaiming his retirement isn’t.

Either someone hacked into the system or the staff was getting a dummy page ready for an eventual announcement.  Whether such announcement was expected later today or at some unknown point in the future is unclear.

What is clear is that Favre Watch 2008 officially has passed the point of ridiculousness, and it’ll be interesting to see if the team’s web site snafu becomes a factor in his decision-making pricess.