Green and Gold were seeing red as Favre returned to Lambeau

Those Green Bay Packer fans booed Brett Favre as if that particular act of hostility were going to be outlawed at the end of Sunday's game against the Vikings.

I've been to football games with ridiculous fans before. Never experienced anything like the atmosphere Sunday in and around Lambeau Field.

They take things to a new level in Wisconsin. Among my lovely parting gifts was a rubber voodoo doll wearing purple, white and the number four.

Across the street from the stadium, a private residence was adorned with a banner that read: "Purple People Suck." There were shirts with Favre's name and other F-words; there was one homemade T-shirt that conveyed such a despicable message about Favre, I stopped the wearer to look him in the eyes and tell him he was just plain wrong.

There was some funny stuff, too. At John Essmann's tailgating tent, there was a cardboard cutout of Favre wearing a bra and what looked like a "Cat in a Hat" chapeau in Green Bay colors.

Between the rampant tailgating scene and the prices at Brett Favre's Steakhouse, it was easier than anticipated to get into the full restaurant without reservations. Music and TV producer Shaun LaBelle, with me for the momentous trip, insisted on going there.

"Whoa, no wonder we could get in," LaBelle said after looking at the menu. A total homer, LaBelle also bought a Brett Favre Steakhouse T-shirt. When asked how his filet was, LaBelle said, "It's not Manny's." That was partly his fault -- ordering a steak devoid of pink. It tasted just this side of liver, to me.

On the drive to Green Bay, we encountered three motorists pulled over by police: All obvious Vikings fans. Plenty of Packer fans, flags flapping, went speeding by me, but cops seemed to be giving the natives a break.

Jared's weight issue Vikings "Sax Machine" Jared Allen seems to disdain people with weight problems.

A picture at twitpic.com/nq1wi, posted by Allen's teammate Visanthe Shiancoe, shows Allen dressed up like a big-bellied "hillbilly" for Halloween.

A couple of weeks ago when I saw Allen at the Mall of America, he was wearing a T-shirt with the message "Fat people are hard to kidnap." When you're the physical specimen Allen is, is it acceptable to display this kind of prejudice? While rabid Allen fans think everything he does is cute, there must be people, even organizations, who wouldn't think this behavior is funny.

Hulk loves Twin Cities Hulk Hogan pretended to be on the hunt for a new leading lady last week at his "My Life Outside the Ring" book signing in Bloomington.

A recent reality TV star, Hogan said he just signed a deal to get back in the ring with TNA Wrestling: "Thank you for being behind me. I did this one time before with the WCW and I drove Vince McMahon crazy. This time we're coming after him again."

Hogan reminisced about living here in the early '80s before he got married. "I'm back in the Twin Cities," Hogan said to Jimmy Hart, his manager, "and I'm single again." Turning his attention to the audience, Hogan said, "Just like when I first started, I'm broke again. I've got one question. There are so many beautiful women out here. Do you guys cook?"

Getting my startribune.com/video moment with Hogan, I didn't ask if he could cook! I asked if wrestling was real and wanted to know if reality TV was good for a marriage, since Hulk and Linda Hogan got divorced and there's a messy dissolution underway between Kate and Jon Gosselin.

Why is Hogan claiming to be in the market for a new woman? I asked Jimmy Hart. On CNN with Larry King, Hogan said the woman he referred to only as Jennifer (last name McDaniel, according to various websites) would "be the one" were he to remarry.

"He said he was single," Hart stressed. Hogan may be single but he's not available, I told Hart, who said, "You've got a point there."