GREEN BAY, Wisc. - Brett Favre's return to Lambeau Field was resounding success. For the Minnesota Vikings.
This sure wasn't the reception Brett Favre used to get at Lambeau Field.
There is an empty space in the Ring of Honor above Lambeau Field where Brett Favre's name will fit perfectly.
As Brett Favre heads to Green Bay, the Vikings quarterback is looking spry, chipper and nowhere near his 40 years. He is playing wonderfully, with six victories under his belt, a 102.2 passer rating and the eighth most passing yards in the NFL.
Before Brett Favre's first preseason game with Minnesota, a meaningless performance featuring all of six snaps, he was nervous and nauseous.
A large swath of our football populace has been waiting for Brett Favre to have a day like this.
You can see the halfway point from here. The fast-moving 2009 season is getting down to the weeks where you can start looking at the standings.
The Green Bay mayor is asking the public for suggestions to "tastefully" welcome back Vikings quarterback Brett Favre when he returns for a Nov. 1 game against the Packers.
Brett Favre dropped back to pass in the third quarter of a tight game against his old team from Green Bay. The Minnesota Vikings quarterback pumped to his right. Nobody open. Then he looked left. Still covered. Then he pumped to his right again. The ball remained in his right hand.
The big 4-0 is right around the corner for Brett Favre. You'd never know it.
The zing on Brett Favre's passes has long been legendary, but at this stage of his career he's more of a crafty thrower than the gunslinger his image was previously centered around.
Pompei: You know deep down inside, Brett Favre is absolutely, positively desperate to not only beat the Packers Monday, but to show them that they were dead wrong for ever thinking they would be better without him.
Celizic: As far as the media goes, we don’t have to get him. He does a great job of doing that for us. As for the fans, he’s the kind of guy everyone wants in the league, but not on their team.
Curran: Most of Week 4 is going to center around a purple dinosaur: Brett Favre squaring off against the Packers in Favre Bowl I. That story will dominate the news this week — and we lead with it here — but there are plenty of other developments to keep an eye on as the 2009 season reaches the quarter-pole. Here are the 5 stories to watch this week.
Howard: No one will be stunned if Brett Favre throws three picks when the Packers visit Monday. Even his haters will watch. Because he might just throw six touchdowns passes as well.
One minute, Brett Favre sternly insists he isn't out for revenge against the Green Bay Packers on Monday night. The next, he says it's only human for him to feel like he has something to prove to the team that traded him.
Curran's Quick Slants: Sunday showed why Brad Childress spent months waiting for His Waffleness to finally join the Minnesota Vikings.
Brett Favre said Wednesday he believes the fines handed down by the NFL for his absence from last year's New York Jets injury reports were "very unfair."
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For all of the negative publicity produced by Brett Favre's latest retirement flip-flop, fans have flocked to watch him in action — and buy his memorabilia.
The NFL assessed $125,000 in fines to the New York Jets and former coach Eric Mangini on Wednesday for violating the league's rules on injury reporting with former quarterback Brett Favre last season.
Curran: It’s all about the quarterbacks. You know it. I know it. And the first Sunday of the 2009 NFL season merely amplified it.
Curran: Thursday night? That was the cheese and crackers. And we got overtime from the Steelers and Titans so let’s say it was the soup and salad too. Sunday? The entrée. The first full Sunday of NFL games for the 2009 season.
In the days leading to Favreageddon, Troy Aikman, the Hall of Fame quarterback who analyzed the Vikings-Packers game for Fox television, predicted that Favre would be highly emotional in his return to Lambeau Field, but would feel right at home once play began.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Brett Favre is coming back for more. The 39-year-old quarterback turned his back on retirement for the second time in as many years, agreeing Tuesday to play for the Minnesota Vikings.
So I have heard now that Favre will sign with Minnesota. Will he play? Do we care if he does? He has bounced in and out of retirement so much, I'm getting dizzy. He originally retired as a cheese-head legend.
Now that Brett Favre is done teasing the football world with his endless drama of whether or not he is coming out of retirement - again, the focus shifts to one of his placement among the ranks of the most covetted position in the National Football League.
Steve Mariucci, the former quarterback tutor to Brett Favre, smiled on Tuesday when asked about the ESPN story that the Vikings had placed a deadline on Favre to declare his intent to join the team.
Brett Favre plans to meet with Vikings coach Brad Childress later this week and discuss the possibility of coming out of retirement -- again.
Favre is still very much in the picture and will remain so if Johnson has his druthers. Johnson said he'd be happy if Favre returned to the team, although he wouldn't be the one ultimately making the call. That will fall on Ryan and G.M. Mike Tannenbaum.
?Thomas Jones Criticizes Brett Favre. Will either be around next year.
If you were making a horror film, would the last scene be a guy dying in his sleep at home? Of course not! You'd want blood and gore, and you would film it in the nastiest, most horrible house of misery. For the Lions, that is Lambeau Field.
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St. Stanislaus quarterback Dylan Favre, as he usually does on game day, received a text message from his famous uncle - superstar NFL signal-caller Brett Favre - the afternoon of his team's Oct. 31 regular-season finale. "Good luck and do what you do," it read.
New York Jets quarterback Brett Favre denied reports he called former Detroit president Matt Millen and gave him and Lions coaches information they could use in a game against Green Bay.
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Favre just can't let it go. Someone get that man some counseling!
Chad Johnson has always been viewed as an odd ball for his on the field antics, but his past shenanigans don't compare to what he just did off the field this week.
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Arizona Cardinals Matt Leinart: According to team reports, Leinart has officially been benched in favor of Kurt Warner. Leinart's 4 for 12 & 3 INT performance is what did him in.
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Seems that Green Bay, who didn't want Favre, didn't want to let him go to either the Vikings or the Bears. Lucky New York. Although the Jets' quarterback, Pennington, must be shaking his head in bewilderment, no team could be anything but blessed to have Favre with them.