Brett Favre Files Papers with the League to Officially Retire

It for sure wasn’t the way he wanted to go out, but it seems like it’s finally time for Vikings quarterback Brett Favre to walk away from the NFL. Today Favre officially filed his retirement papers with the NFL, the league confirmed. He had already said that after the season finale in Detroit, a game in which he didn’t play due to a concussion, that the game would be his last.

“I know it’s time, and that’s OK. It is,” Favre said after the game that day. “Again, I hold no regrets, and I can’t think of too many players offhand that can walk away and say that. Individually and from a team standpoint, it was way more than I ever dreamed of.”

Favre though is well known for putting people on hold with talk of retirement. The first time he walked away was 2008 with the Packers on March 6th, and then he came back that summer and eventually was traded to the New York Jets.

In 2009 with the Jets he retired again, only to come back and ink with the Vikings, and he had a huge season, leading the team to the NFC Title Game before they folded to the Saints in OT.

This past season he came back, but the season was a disaster, as the team not only didn’t play well, but Favre ended up getting hurt and his consecutive game streak was eventually snapped.

He was picked off 19 times this season and his 69.9 quarterback rating is the lowest of his career. The Vikings sunk to the bottom of the NFC North after starting the season with Super Bowl aspirations, coach Brad Childress was fired during the season and Favre was fined $50,000 for failure to cooperate with an NFL investigation into allegations that he sent lewd photos and messages to a team employee when both worked for the New York Jets in 2008.

Favre’s reputation took a serious hit from the humiliating scandal, which tarnished the image of one of the league’s most popular players.

His union with receiver Randy Moss also was a spectacular failure and his cherished streak of 297 straight starts ended, with a sprained throwing shoulder making it impossible for Favre to let those famously zip-filled passes rip from his right arm.

And just for good measure, the Metrodome roof caved in to provide a perfect metaphor for Favre and the Vikings’ 2010, forcing the Vikings to play “home” games at Detroit and at the University of Minnesota’s outdoor stadium in December.

“It’s been a wonderful experience for me,” Favre said. “This year did not work out the way we would have hoped, but that’s football. I don’t regret coming back. I enjoyed my experience here.”

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Vikings Brett Favre Acts Like Another Guy With A White Beard

While many youngsters await the annual return of Santa Claus, Vikings quarterback Brett Favre and his “little helper” Deanna Favre made a heartwarming gesture to help celebrate the holiday season this December.

The Favre’s invited a number of families in need to Winter Park on December 14th for an early Christmas party, making sure they left the training facility weighed down by generous food baskets and many Christmas presents.

The Favre family also donated $60,000 to the Salvation Army.  The donation will be used to provide food baskets to 2,000 other families this year.

“God has blessed us in so many ways, so it’s in our nature to give back,” Brett Favre said.

“Brett and I didn’t have a lot growing up,” added Deanna Favre. “We always feel that we need to reach out to the community, to help give back to all the people who give us so much. We feel like The Salvation Army is the perfect way. They are an organization that takes care of families who are working and trying to make ends meet.”

While I have been openly critical of Favre on this site for years now, it is important to note that this is an extremely generous donation that couldn’t come at a better time.  The Twin Cities Salvation Army has received assistance requests from 1,000 more families than they did last year, but have seen a decrease in donations to the tune of $420,000.

If you are interested in following the Favres’ lead on this one, you can see details about donating to the Salvation Army by clicking here.

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Favre: ‘If it’s meant to be over, then so be it’

It’s been a topic of conversation since he picked himself up off the turf at Mall of America field two weeks ago: Has Brett Favre played his last snap in the NFL?

If you’re searching for closure, you’re out of luck. Favre isn’t offering anything definitive on whether he’ll be able to return from a sprained shoulder and numbness in his hand to take the field again this season. He appeared resigned to the fact it’s all over during his postgame interview Monday night, but as Charles Davis recently pointed out, interim coach Leslie Frazier needs to win.

That becomes more difficult with a mess of a situation at quarterback, and Joe Webb as the starter.

So that was the backdrop as Favre spoke with reporters Thursday, when he was asked if he’s aiming for one last hurrah.

“Well, this season has been that,” Favre said. “You know, it’s probably more important to people that it not end on a hit, injury, against Buffalo. And that very well could be the last play. I don’t look at it that way. As I said after the game, I think of it, and I include this year, as 20 great years.

“I knew going in, as with any season, there’s no guarantees. Things might not go as you would hope. If I had a crystal ball, it would sure be easy to make a lot of decisions and know where you stand. If it’s mean to be, it’s meant to be. And I’m not going to beat myself up over it, one way or another. Just like this season. I know up until this point, game ended, I did everything I could do. Don’t regret it one bit. If it’s meant to be over, then so be it.”

What Favre isn’t saying, and hasn’t said, is that he’s going to do everything he can to fight to get back onto the field. We know the competitive nature that has defined his career. But, as he says, there are no guarantees.

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Because of Frazier, we haven’t seen the last of Favre

Published: December 14th, 2010 | Tags: Brett Favre, Charles Davis, Leslie Frazier, Minnesota Vikings, Tarvaris Jackson

Ahhhh, Brett Favre. I don’t want to get into a retrospective of his career just yet, until we find out for sure whether he’s going to come back and do this again this season. But I think he’s working diligently to try to come back over the last three games, and I think he’s doing it with the full support of head coach Leslie Frazier.

Remember, when Frazier took the job, his first announcement was that Favre was going to be his quarterback. There was no room for waffling. It was equivocal. It was done. Frazier fully believed that Favre gave his team its best chance to win.

What did we see Monday night out of Tarvaris Jackson? While it might not have been a fair opportunity, he didn’t come through. If you’re Frazier, you’re trying to win games and make yourself the best possible candidate to keep the job as head coach of the Vikings.

Frazier will want to play the best guy. In his mind, that’s Favre.

Of course, this all hinges on Favre being healthy, which is still a huge question. But if he is, I don’t think we’ve seen the last of him.

I don’t think Favre wants to go out the way he did against the Bills. I think he’d like to come back and play at least one more game — and play it well — on his way out the door.

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Maybe Favre was really saying good-bye (again)

All things must come to an end, and Brett Favre’s postgame press conference Monday night might have been the moment when all of the factors surrounding the end of his career converged, signaling it is really over.

At one point during the 15-minute session, Favre was asked point-blank if he would ever play again.

“I won’t play again if I can’t feel my hand,” Favre said. “I think it would be foolish to even consider playing if you don’t have total feeling in five fingers.”

Favre said he will undergo further tests on Tuesday to examine his sprained SC joint, which he believes has contributed to the numbness in his right hand, a problem he said goes back several weeks to the game against Washington. Favre didn’t rule out playing again, but at no point did he even suggest he could return during the team’s final three games, either.

Ultimately, it will be Favre’s call. But the words he chose were filled with resignation to the fact he likely won’t play again.

“I’ve played through a lot of stuff,” Favre said. “I think this is something different that I’ve got to be more cautious of.

“Whether [the streak] ended today, in several weeks, end of last season, it’s been a great run. A great run. So, I’m very proud of it. You know, there’s nothing left to be … not that there was anything to prove anyway. I think it is a very difficult thing to do. I realize that more so now because it seems like I’ve been hurt a lot worse. I can’t believe that something like this hasn’t happened before. Pretty amazing. … I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

Favre didn’t deliver a tearful, full-fledged eulogy over his 20-year career, but he gave the sense in talking about the end of his consecutive games streak he’s already in a place where he’s looking back.

“I’ve had several people in passing say, ‘You know, I hate for the streak to end like this.’ End like what? It’s been a great run. I will not hang my head one bit because it ended today. I think about, as a kid, goals, dreams … I far exceeded all those that I had. I never dreamed of playing 300-plus straight games. I just dreamed of playing in the NFL. It’s been pretty amazing.”

Yes, pretty amazing. With The Streak over and its place in history cemented, maybe for the first time, all over again, Favre was really saying he’s played his final NFL game. In many ways, he sounded like he’s already moved on.

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Total Access on Tap: Have we seen last of Favre?

Published: December 14th, 2010 | Tags: Brett Favre, Charles Davis, Daryl Johnston, Fran Charles, NFL Total Access

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Here’s a look at Tuesday’s rundown for “NFL Total Access,” the guide the producers and directors use to plan each show. Have a guess as to who will be the topic of conversation?

Host Fran Charles and analysts Charles Davis and Daryl Johnston will jump into the Brett Favre conversation early, discussing whether we’ll see No. 4 on the field again.

There will also be a healthy mix of playoff talk, as Brian Baldinger and Mike Mayock join the show to debate which teams will win the competitive AFC South and NFC East divisions.

Total Access hits the air at 7 p.m. ET.

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Have we seen the last of Favre?

After 19 seasons, 186 wins, 505 touchdowns, 71,413 yards and 297 consecutive starts, have ween seen the last of Brett Favre on the field?

Some reports are suggesting it’s probable, if not likely.

While you can’t count Favre out, many believe that with his NFL record streak of consecutive starts snapped, he’ll be placed on the injured/reserve list by the Vikings, preemptively ending what would be three weeks worth of speculation.

NFL Networks’ Brian Billick says he can’t imagine Favre playing again this season.

“I don’t think given the nature of the injury … you heard the doctor say this is a minimum three- or four-week injury,” Billick said. ”If they win tonight, they’re enough on the peripheral, I think they still go with Tarvaris Jackson. I can’t imagine, even Favre, continuing to heal at the rate that he’s going to get back into the lineup.”

Steve Mariucci added some insight on “NFL Total Access.”

“He’s not sure how soon this thing will feel better, because it was really hurting him this,” Mariucci said. “He’s not promising anyone he’ll play the next game, either.”

It would mean the last images we have of Favre on a field are of him picking himself off the turf at the Metrodome following a hit by Arthur Moats of the Bills, a play which led to an interception, left him with a sprained shoulder and would later end one of the most impressive (unfathomable might be a better word) streaks in sports.

You just never know when the end is the end.

Which brings us all the way back around to another intriguing stat involving Favre, courtesy of the NFL Network research crew. If Favre has thrown his last NFL pass, it will mark the third time in the last four seasons that his final pass attempt of the season, including the playoffs, was an interception. The only exception was in 2008. Although, it only figures his second-to-last pass that season was also intercepted, by Andre Goodman of the Dolphins.

If the status quo holds, Favre’s final pass attempts in those three seasons went to Bills CB Drayton Florence (2010), Saints CB Tracy Porter (2009) and Giants CB Corey Webster (2007).

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Even if active, Cassel, Favre should be benched

Published: December 9th, 2010 | Tags: Brett Favre, Brodie Croyle, Matt Cassel, Percy Harvin, Todd Haley

Chiefs coach Todd Haley said that Matt Cassel, who had an appendectomy on Wednesday, missed practice on Thursday but has not yet been ruled out for Week 14.

“Some guys have had the procedure and been out for awhile, some guys have come back quickly,” Haley said. “We have to wait. I really don’t have anything to give.”

Cassel has been one of the hotter quarterbacks in fantasy football in recent weeks, but coming off this procedure — coupled with a tough matchup against the Chargers — makes him a major risk even if he is active.

The bigger concern for fantasy owners is how Cassel’s potential absence would hurt the value of Dwayne Bowe, who is currently the highest-scoring wide receiver in fantasy football. Obviously, he’ll lose some of his appeal with backup quarterback Brodie Croyle under center. But unless you’re deep at wideout, Bowe is still a tough player to bench.

In Minnesota, Brett Favre was held out of practice due to his bum shoulder. Whether he returns in time to face the Giants on Sunday remains to be seen, but he shouldn’t be starting in the fantasy postseason regardless.

His teammate, Percy Harvin, was also held out of drills as he continues to deal with the effects of migraine headaches. Like Favre, he could be a game-time decision. But unlike the old gunslinger, Harvin should be active in fantasy leagues if he is able to suit up.

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Favre talks about changes during 20-year career

How many players can compare what the NFL was like 20 years ago to what it’s like right now? The answer is not many. In fact, it’s currently two: John Kasay and Brett Favre.

So I had the chance to sit down with Favre last week and talk football, and we had an interesting conversation about what has changed in the league during his career.

When I asked Favre what he has seen over that time, he said there’s no doubt that players have gotten bigger, faster and stronger. But he also said something else interesting — that the role of the officials and their calls made on the field are changing the outcome of games more than ever.

Favre said that when he entered the league, he clearly knew what a catch was. Right now, he isn’t certain. He also doesn’t know what exactly pass interference is anymore.

I thought this was phenomenal.

We also talked about the ruling against Visanthe Shiancoe in the end zone against the Packers on Oct. 24. It was ruled a catch on the field, overturned via replay, and then an apology was later issued because it should have been a catch. But from Favre’s view, they still lost the game.

In talking about players being bigger, faster and stronger, one of the roles of replay was supposed to slow things down on the field for officials. The players move so much faster than they did 20 years ago.

I absolutely agree with Favre. When I entered the league, there was no replay as part of the officiating. Whatever happened on the field, you had to get over it and move on. And there was no going back and looking at it weeks later and complaining. You just had to man up.

But I will say that I never felt like the officials ever cost us a game. It would be disappointing to feel like you won a game but the officials changed the outcome. For the most part, replay is getting it right. But when they use replay to slow the game down and still get it wrong, it’s disturbing. There are many players around the league who talk about this trend.

It would just leave me sick, and I think Favre felt that way after the loss this season at Lambeau Field.

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Favre reiterates his plan: ‘I’m done’

Maybe you’ve seen this movie before, but Brett Favre told us Wednesday he really is retiring after the season, his 20th in the NFL. Really. You can believe it …

Favre reiterated his plan (which he’s done several times this season) when asked by reporters if he was having any second thoughts, which for all intents and purposes remains a legitimate question.

“I’m done, I’m done,” said Favre.

Pardon me that this is dripping with sarcasm, but we’ve been through this drill twice before. It’s simply no longer news when Favre retires, unretires or changes his mind, because there’s always a chance that will change, no matter how much we’d like to believe otherwise.

Favre was asked why he should be believed this time around.

“I remember the same question, the first part of the year, and everyone said, ‘Well, ….’ I said, ‘Hey, time will tell,’ but like I said then, I’m done,” Favre said. “I’d love to, as I said when I came back, I’m here to win a Super Bowl. We had big expectations, it hasn’t gone the way we had hoped up to this point. But again, my career speaks for itself. I think it’s been a great career. I don’t know how the remaining games will unfold but, that’s it.”

Favre added … for now … he’s not interesting in staying close to the game in television or coaching.

In a way it’s unfortunate some will remember one of the greatest quarterbacks in history for his inability to make up his mind over his last few seasons. Perhaps that part of his legacy will dissipate over time. 

As maddening as the drama he creates can be, I don’t live on Favre Hater Ave., so kudos to him for getting the opportunity to do something he’s had the ability and desire to do for so many years. It looks like these last five weeks are setting up nicely as an award tour of sorts for Favre.

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Mayock: Vikings should release Favre

Published: November 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Brad Childress, Brett Favre, Joe Webb, Leslie Frazier, Mike Mayock, Minnesota Vikings, Tarvaris Jackson, Vic Carucci

Leslie Frazier left little doubt when he was introduced as the interim coach of the Vikings this week that Brett Favre is his guy.

Maybe he should have included the phrase ”for better or worse.”

While benching Favre is unfathomable for some, many on the outside are clamoring for the Vikings, at 3-7 and with little reasonable hope for the playoffs, to turn the page from No. 4. There was some reason to believe that process would be expedited with Frazier at the helm, but for now the Vikings’ plan doesn’t include an extended look at whether Tarvaris Jackson or Joe Webb are the future.

NFL.com senior columnist Vic Carucci has called out that it’s time for Favre to step aside, and NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock is also now on the record that it’s time for the Vikings to cut ties with Favre. Right now.

“At this point, you fired your coach,” Mayock said. “It would be a crime if you don’t find out in the remainder of the season whether or not either one of your backup quarterbacks can play.

“If I was there, I’d like to see a uniform situation within the organization where the owner, the new head coach and head of personnel Rick Spielman sit down and say, ‘It’s time to release Favre. We need to get a clean look at these two young quarterbacks, and find out if either of them is our quarterback of the future.’ If that’s the case, then you know what you have to do in the draft.”

Maybe the Vikings’ brass has already made up their collective minds on Jackson and Webb. A school of thought also exists that had Frazier been the one to bench Favre, he would have lost the credibility and respect that Brad Childress seemed to lack in a locker room that was pro-Favre.

Nevertheless, Mayock is the latest to make a compelling point that it’s in the Vikings’ best interest to move ahead. By no stretch of the imagination does this story feel like it’s over.

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Packers: Legendary QB Favre Watch

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Beaten and battered, Favre faces harsh reality: No matter how you feel about Brett Favre, it was hard not to feel just a pinch of sympathy for him Sunday. Once a three-time NFL most valuable player and just last year still among the best quarterbacks in the game, Favre is finishing out his career with a team in a death spiral and looking every bit like a 41-year-old man in a young man’s game. As purple-clad fans fled the Metrodome and Packers fans stayed behind to savor the closing minutes of a 31-3 beat-down of Favre and the Vikings, the chants of “Go, Pack, go!” must have rung hollow in Favre’s ear flaps. Favre is a Hall of Famer reduced to irrelevance. As Favre walked off the field, a handful of Packers made their way through a phalanx of photographers to pat the quarterback on the helmet or shoulder pads and wish him well. ”One thing we always say is that we miss one another,” Driver said. “I asked him if he would be OK and he said, ‘Yeah,’ and then he said, ‘I love you.’ I said, ‘I love you, too.’ And that was it.” Safety Nick Collins told Favre to “keep his head up and keep playing.” ”He said, ‘Y’all keep going. You’re playing good. You can do it,’?” Collins said. “We’ve been watching him the whole season, watching everything he’s going through,” Jenkins said. “You feel bad for him as a former teammate. He’s a pretty cool guy. You don’t wish bad luck on anybody. It’s just one of those things. He’s having a tough year and hopefully he’ll be able to get past it, whatever direction he goes in after this season.”

Favre to ‘re-evaluate things’ following rout: In 1992, the Green Bay Packers breathed life into Brett Favre’s NFL career. Sunday, they may have put that marvelous career to rest for good. The Packers completed a season sweep of their former quarterback with a remarkably easy 31-3 victory over his Minnesota Vikings Sunday at the Metrodome. That evened it up at two wins per team since Favre joined the Vikings in 2009 and it will probably remain tied because Favre doesn’t look or sound like someone who has a 21st NFL season in his 41-year-old body. When the unexpected rout was over Sunday, two things were clear: The Vikings as we know them are done and Favre might be, too. Afterward, he wouldn’t even commit to playing another game, saying twice that he would go home and re-evaluate. He cracked a joke while declining to say exactly what he would re-evaluate.

The last goodbye?: If this is it, and Brett Favre left the door slightly ajar to that possibility with his promise to “re-evaluate” his situation, then it was understandable that some folks at Mall of America Field at the Metrodome Sunday afternoon took pity upon the 41-year-old Minnesota Vikings quarterback. None of that sympathy, however, was coming from the Green Bay Packers’ locker room in the wake of their 31-3 whupping of their former teammate and his team, effectively ending the Vikings’ season with six weeks remaining. “None. Not at all,” said Packers veteran cornerback Charles Woodson, who played the 2006 and ’07 seasons with Favre. “This is football, and we’re all after one goal – to win games and ultimately win a championship. What somebody else, another team is going through, means nothing to us. We’re full steam ahead.” Wide receiver Donald Driver, Favre’s teammate and friend from 1999 through 2007, agreed. “Nah, not at all,” Driver said. “I love him, love him to death, but when you play this game, there’s no friends until it’s all over. I think he would have agreed if he would have beaten us. I’m happy that we beat him. Now I can say that I’ve won with him, lost with him and I’ve beat him. I can put that on top of my shelf.” Asked point-blank if he’s fully committed to finishing the season, Favre initially tried to deflect the question with a joke. “As I stand here today, I never expected us to be in this situation,” Favre replied. “I came back for a Super Bowl. I also knew there (was) a chance that wouldn’t happen. Probably a better chance that it (didn’t) – a way better chance that you don’t play near as good as you did last year. It doesn’t mean you can’t have success, but this is a little bit surprising. Again, I’m just going to go home and, I don’t want to say think about this game, just re-evaluate tomorrow.”

Will Favre play again this year?: Considering the player, the scene was surreal. Brett Favre, with his legendary consecutive starts streak now five away from the landmark 300, stood on the Minnesota Vikings’ sideline with the clock winding down on Sunday. His team was getting trounced 31-3 by his former employers, and most of the fans had headed for the exits long ago. There Favre stood, arm-in-arm with teammates Ryan Longwell and Steve Hutchinson. Then one trainer. And then another. Was Favre, in the middle of a disastrous season, saying good-bye? Whether Favre’s season – and career – will end after this game seems unlikely for someone who’s given so much of himself in his career and would forever tarnish his legacy by throwing in the towel with six games to go. But he made no effort to emphatically say he’ll stick with a team that is sinking so quickly that coach Brad Childress’ dismissal after the season seems like a foregone conclusion. Asked if he wanted to finish the season, Favre said, “I don’t want to sit here and tell you I’d love to sit here and tell you I’d love to finish the season and then go out and lose 31-3.” Pressed on the meaning of his going home to “re-evaluate” statement, Favre said: “I have no idea. If I had known it was going to lead to that question, I would have re-evaluated that answer.”

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Should the Vikings bench Favre?

Published: November 15th, 2010 | | Tags: Brad Childress, Brett Favre, Charles Davis, Minnesota Vikings

Should the Vikings cut their losses and bench Brett Favre? NFL Network analyst Charles Davis says that because of the marriage between Favre and coach Brad Childress, it won’t reach that point in Minnesota.

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Playbook picks: Sorry Favre, Packers to get sweep

Published: November 17th, 2010 | | Tags: Brian Baldinger, Solomon Wilcots, Michael Lombardi, Playbook picks

U-N-I-T-Y — no, it’s not just an old-school hip-hop classic from Queen Latifah. It’s also representative of how the “Playbook” analysts picked this week.

Solomon Wilcots, Michael Lombardi and Brian Baldinger (with an assist from Shawn Springs and Sterling Sharpe) all agree that the Patriots will win their showdown against the Colts, the Packers will sweep Brett Favre’s Vikings and the Steelers will rebound to beat the Raiders.

In fact, there is a consensus on all but three of this week’s 16 games.

Without further ado, take a look at all of their Week 11 picks:

“Playbook” combines Xs-and-Os analysis of each NFL game with roundtable debates on the NFL’s hottest topics. For more information, check out NFL Network’s broadcast schedule.

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Favre played well in win over the Cards

Published: November 7th, 2010 | | Tags: Minnesota Vikings, San Diego Chargers, Brett Favre, Detroit Lions, Matthew Stafford, Seyi Ajirotutu

A couple of thoughts coming from the Twitterverse.

Chargers WR Seyi Ajirotutu has scored the most fantasy points among WRs on NFL.com today, at least to this point. Wow.I really hope Lions QB Matthew Stafford isn’t hurt badly. He was looking great, and this schedule down the stretch is very favorable.Vikings QB Brett Favre now has 424 passing yards. Guess I buried him a little too soon, huh?

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Brett Favre SuffersA Laceration To The Chin ??? Randy Moss Sheds A Tear For His Former Team ? FOXBOROUGH, MASS. -- Randy Moss got fined $25,000 by the NFL this week for not cooperating with the media. The Vikings receiver had plenty to say Sunday after catching only one pass in a 28-18 loss to the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium. In one of the strangest "news conferences" you'll ever see, Moss announced read more

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Brett Favre And Brad Childress Don't Mix? For the 10th time, it looks like Brett Farve is finally at the tipping point. Regardless of playing in 291 games straight, leading the world in interceptions, and mastering the underhand flip pass before being smothered, Farve has finally hit a glass ceiling that cannot be broken through. Public blunders, including his admitted creepy messages left on a female Jet's reporters cell phone, as well as head coach Brad Childress outing him on a nationally televised postgame press conference for "not knowing when to accept a punt" have been the icing on the cake for what is quickly looking like the end of the road for ol' Brett. Never mind the fact that the Vikes have unheralded off read more

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Brett Favre left the Vikings walkthrough Thursday morning without the walking boot on his left ankle. Favre is not expected to practice Thursday and his status for Sunday's game remains in question. Favre, who has two fractures in his left ankle, said Wednesday that he wants to play, and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell said he will be surprised if Favre doesn't extend his NFL record for consecutive starts to 292 games. "Surprising would probably be a good word," Bevell said during his weekly press conference. "He's never not been out there so it would probably be a surprise. I was there [in Green Bay] and he broke the thumb. Immediately the doctor said, 'Hey, we've got to pin it and you're going to be out six to eight weeks.' In his mind, he said, 'Well wait a minute, I just played really well.' We didn't know it was broken. He said, 'I'm going to give it a shot.' He played with that as well. It would surprise me if he wasn't able to b read more

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Brett Favre had gotten rid of the walking boot on his left foot Thursday as he made his way through the Vikings locker room and continued to seem optimistic that he might be able to do some work in prepartion for playing Sunday at New England. "I wouldn't put anything past me to be honest with you," said Favre, who suffered a stress fracture in his left ankle and a fractured left heel on Sunday at Green Bay. The 20-year veteran seemed in good spirits as he walked gingerly and sorted through his locker looking for a shoe. Favre was looking for a size-15 shoe for his left foot, something he would wear against the Patriots. That is exactly what Favre did in 2000 when he suffered a severly sprained left foot but played the nex read more

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As many of you know, Minnesota Vikings' quarterback Brett Favre has two minor fractures in his left ankle, and his playing status for Sunday's Halloween battle against New England is in jeopardy. Favre Has Two Fractures In His Left Ankle With Favre's injury looming, New England head coach, Bill Belichick, expects Favre to play Sunday. "Of course," Belichick said to the media Monday. "He's started 8,000 games in a row. Same thing we were all talking about with (Antonio) Gates last week. He wasn't going to play and all that. I don't think you can ever count players like that out." However, I'm still going to be questioning Favre's status. This is a perfect opportunity for Minnesota head coach, Brad Childress, to make a quarterback change. After Minnes read more

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Back-to-back overtime losses will sap any team's resolve, but in another down-to-the-wire finish on Sunday night, the Packers somehow found enough deep down inside to reverse their fortunes. Holding off what in all likelihood was Minnesota quarterback Brett Favre's final drive at Lambeau Field, the Packers hung on for a 28-24 victory over the Vikings as Favre came up 20 yards short of the potential game-winning touchdown in the final seconds. "An excellent team win and an excellent character win," Head Coach Mike McCarthy said. "And it was definitely something that we needed." That's for sure. The consecutive overtime defeats the past two weeks had dropped the Packers to 3-3, and as the former Green Bay legend drove Minnesota from its own 17 as far as the Packers' 15-yard line, read more

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The stars aligned perfectly for the Vikings in their two match-ups with the Packers in 2009. The Packer line couldn't contend with the Viking pass rush, the Packer defense could get no pressure on Brett Favre...and, oh yeah, Favre himself had that whole sticking it to Ted Thompson thing motivating him. The result: 2 wins over Green Bay on the way to a 12-4 finish and a division title. Things may not line up so perfectly for the Vikings this year however. The pass protection has not been good, so it's unlikely Favre will have the kind of time he did in those two games last season. And Aaron Rodgers will face a Vikings pass rush that has not lived up to its fearsome reputation so far. As for Favre himself...this year, he seems more frustrated than motivated. Of course, we expect Brett will be up for tonight's game more than most, because it's still the Packers, and he still wants to shove Ted Thompson's face in it. Whether that lingering revenge-lust will translate into a more read more

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Antoine Winfield Disrupts A Pass Thrown By Aaron rodgers Last Year During recent history, time floated by and members of the Vikings defense changed, but one stinging reality always remained: Minnesota was the toughest team in the League to run on, but they could easily be beat through the air. How could you expect anything different entering the 2010 season? The front seven stayed the same and the secondary might've been even more of a question mark than years before. Antoine Winfield was a year older, Cedric Griffin was recovering from an ACL injury (and then proceeded to injure his other ACL) and the remaining players, Husain Abdullah, Tyrell Johnson, Madieu Williams, Jamarca Sanford, Asher Allen and Chris Cook were either inexperienced or failed to instill confidence in any fan. read more

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