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He led them to the NFC title game last year!! Let's not talk about how he threw that INT on what would have been their conference winning drive 5-10 yards from fg range.

It is good to know that the Bears will have the second douchiest starting qb tonight for a change.

Yeah actually trying to play through an injury instead of sitting at home and collecting $3M for the last 3 games from his couch. What a douche move. Having Joe Webb prepare as the starter all week as favre was declared out and then on the day of his life having him come out and push the Vikings to start him is a little douchey. I understand there are no guarantees in this business but I can't imagine how shitty Webb feels. Like someone said I hope he didn't fly his family out there for the game. I can't understand if the Vikings were still fighting for a playoff spot but they aren't. Anyways this doesn't really change my opinion now that Peterson is out. If we win or lose it's likely not solely because of old man favre.

Favre is starting tonight apparently

Huge huge break. Let favre play who cares.

And it gets weirder. Goodell unexpectedly going to address the media in 5 minutes. Could just be nothing but who knows.

Edit: Sorry I jumped the gun from an old link on twitter from 3 days ago posted as breaking news. I did see this though:

Who cares? It's Brett Favre all the time whenever he wants. Ed Werder said it was Favre that pushed for this to happen. I'm sure the Vikings would have liked to know there was a possibility that he could play a couple of days ago.

All this leads me to believe that Brett Favre won't actually retire this year. I just cannot envision a scenario where Favre voluntarily stops playing football. He just won't die.

wow there is actually live video of Favre warming up http://www.kstp.com/livevideo/videoWindow.shtml?aID=107 Right now its just showing the crowd but it was on Favre a min ago

Twitter is also saying that Favre is now considered a game time decision, which basically means that he's gonna play.

Dunno...Tom Brady threw 40 times last week in a route and I'm sure the Vikings will try to follow the Patriots pattern of short passing the Bears to death. Besides, Brett Favre is a hero and is putting the game in his hands, no one is going to tell him what to do in this game.

Unfortunately that line looks good enough to win, especially if Peterson has a decent day. Maybe maybe not. 19 incompletions will lead to a good amount of punting for the Vikings. Then you add the 2 INTs and I think the Bears have a good shot of winning with that stat line. I think if he plays he will look really inaccurate to start the game, short arming throws, while others sail over the heads. The Bears will stop them the first 2-3 possessions, while making 2 FG drives to take the lead. Then Favre will make a heroic throw downfield to Harvin that the safety is too late getting over to cover, the Vikings will score a TD and there will be more semen then snow in the stadium and the announcers will comment on how heroic that pass was with his shoulder in such bad shape, and how he's leaving it all out on the field today, and doesn't care if his shoulder gets worse or feels more pain because this might be it for him so all he wants is to go out a winner. Or something. Oh and this goes without saying but he will dance around like a idiot and piss me off. Then while sulley is awarding the 2010-2027 NFC North titles to GB, except for 2014 when the St. Louis baseball Cardinals will somehow win it, the Bears will start to take over and people will slowly realize that Favre doesn't have enough left in the tank to lead this team on many extended drives. Bears win 23-13. Or at least that's how I see it going in my head.

Why does everyone sense a Brett Favre miracle in the works? Sure early in his career he led a lot of comebacks and had memorable moments but he's been pretty awful with everything on the line lately (not that this game is like an NFC Championship game or anything, but you can sense this game is important for him, and a lot of the Vikings). I'm gonna predict that if he plays he has a line like: 17-36, 212 yards, 2 TD, 2 INT. That's assuming he makes it through the game.

Leslie Frazier is coaching for his job. If they don't stay with Frazier people think there's a good chance they bring in a new President/G.M. so the front office wants as many wins as possible. Brett gives them a better chance of winning. Ahh good point, I forgot about the Frazier/front office angle. That's certainly a higher priority than seeing if your 6th round converted WR rookie can be the QB of the future.

http://www.gginc.biz/webcam/index.html Webcam of downtown MPLS, not all that far from TCF

I honestly can't tell if you are a Bears or vikings fan the way you are simultaneously defending minneapolis and speaking from the mind of a Vikings fan, and rooting for the Bears. Look at the guy missing the Bears game to go watch Les Miserables questioning the loyalty of someone else. like you've never been whiped by a girl before. If you saw me throw on my ipod and blast music in my ears during intermission so that I wouldnt overhear others talking about the game, or watched me drive a route home that I knew didn't pass by any bars where I might oversee or hear reaction from the game, all so I could stay up until 1AM and get 5 hours of sleep in order to watch the game in its entirety, you wouldnt question my fandom!

I honestly can't tell if you are a Bears or vikings fan the way you are simultaneously defending minneapolis and speaking from the mind of a Vikings fan, and rooting for the Bears.

ahhhh i can't stand how you keep mispelling "lose". Sorry. Period goes inside the quotations. i think that's a very gray rule I misread that post at first.

Who freaking cares what Packers fans are thinking? It's a Vikings game in Minnesota, the storybook atmosphere just isn't there. what? a crappy year for a team with high hopes being led by a broken QB who happens to be a legend, returning to their roots of out-door football, in an extreme local climate, to beat out the recent division favorites? might not be storybook to Bear fans, but just about everyone in MPLS is up for this one. thats why I want to see it, and then beat them and crush their souls If Favre comes back to play tonight it is helpful to no one except the Packers. The only thing the Vikings are playing for at this point, is a draft pick. The Vikes know Favre isn't the future, and most of the fans were looking forward to seeing Webb in action. If the Vikings are playing for a draft pick, then maybe it is a helpful for them to start an old beatup geezer in single digit windchills on a field of concrete.

I didn't think about common opponents. I guess that's where the Titans would have the advantage? Because we'd be tied in division record and would have the worst conference record of the three. Common opponents between division teams is easy to figure out since only 2 games differ in everyone's schedule. You figure out the record each team has vs. those uncommon opponents, and the one with the worst record against them wins the tiebreaker. The Titans are 0-2 vs. uncommon opponents (Pit, Mia), which is worse/better than Indy (1-1 vs. Cin and NE) and Jacksonville (2-0 vs. Cle and Buf).

And if true, that's the biggest joke of all. Everything is forgiven after a win that doesn't even guarantee the Packers the division? Give me a [expletive] break. HURRAH FAVRE! Thank you for keeping us alive for the division for 6 more days until we lose to the Giants!