The annual game of will-he-or-won’t-he continues in Green Bay.  (We’d prefer Hungry Hungry Hippos.)

Quarterback Brett Favre, who has toyed with the emotions of Cheeseheads throughout the globe since first musing about retirement more than five years ago, still hasn’t decided whether to come back for another season.

Coach Mike McCarthy says that Favre’s decision is still “probably a couple of weeks away.”

Two years ago, Favre paralyzed the Packers well into April before deciding to come back.  Last year, his decision to play came fairly quickly.

Most league observers presumed that he’d return for 2008, given the youthful manner in which he played during 2007.  But in the immediate wake of the team’s surprising loss to the Giants in the NFC title game, Favre expressed concern that the Packers will enter next year with high expectations, and could lay the same kind of egg that the conference finalists from the prior season dropped onto the field in their first campaigns after achieving greatness.

So the question for Favre is whether to ride into the sunset with a far-better-than-expected 2007 season, or to risk ending it all after a potentially disappointing 2008.

He also might be thinking that this team will be better off without him sooner if he leaves now, while plenty of young guys are on the fringes of their primes.

We were sure that he’d return, but now we’re wondering whether he will.