The Student of the GameGoing Beyond the Stats

Reports came up on Wednesday, Dec 1st that Minnesota Vikings QB Brett Favre has begun chanting the familiar mantra of ‘I’m done’. This implies that once again (I believe this is the fifth time since his tear filled press conference in Green Bay, Wisconsin where sports outlets began running week long spots and on-air memorials prompting ESPN’s Colin Cowherd to, albeit jokingly, inform the public that he hadn’t died, just retired).

As off-season stories we’ve heard too much about go (at least ones not involving hold-outs or holding cells connected to an arrest), welcome to the best possible NFL Thursday Night Season Opening Match-Up possible as the Minnesota Vikings faced off against the New Orleans Saints at the Superdome. ‘Favre Flummox 2010’ was finally over as QB Brett Favre, on essentially the same day as he did in 2009, finally decided end his yearly retirement charade to weasel out of training camp and commit to a 20th NFL season playing a second year with Minnesota.

The NFC North is next on the list. Will the Detroit Lions matter? Can QB Jay Cutler make this the year that the Chicago Bears are for real? Can QB Aaron Rogers continue to improve his play from last year's solid showing to propel the Green Bay Packers to the Playoffs? Or will he be thwarted by QB Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings?

Answers to these and other questions with the SoTG, Weasel, and Chris.

The week of the NFL Homecomings is upon us. Favre to Lanbeau and Weasel returning to the show so he and the SoTG can bring you more action!

While it will not necessarily apply to all those who gaze upon this particular article, the public will be fed and mezmorized by the elements of the story pertaining to former Packer QB Brett Favre playing against his former team at the Metrodome in a Minnestoa Viking uniform for the first time in his last NFL game before he turns 40 years old and think that he was the hero of the game in the Vikings 30-23 division victory putting them at 4-0. But Favre himself was forced to show appreciation to the man who was the real factor, “[DE]Jared Allen is a beast . . . I’m glad we have ‘em”.