Sage Rosenfels News

Brad Childress came under a bit of fire in Week Eight as it was revealed that Vikings QB Brett Favre had played through a groin injury while leading his team to victory over the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field.

The Vikings ' players stormed out of Winter Park on Monday afternoon, many with the gusto of middle-schoolers dismissed for the summer, bound for sunnier destinations such as Miami and Los Angeles.

Leta s be very clear about this: The Minnesota Vikings are a better football team than the Green Bay Packers.A And yes Packers fans, the difference is Brett Favre.

Vikings quarterback Brett Favre ran into a half-full Lambeau Field at 2:37 local time for warmups and was met predominantly with boos by the Packers faithful, who once cheered him for the better part of his 16 seasons here.

OK, Minnesotans, where is Brett Favre and what have you done with him? Because whoever that monotone graybeard was in Eden Prairie, Minn., answering questions about the come-to-Curly moment awaiting Favre on Sunday, when he returns to Lambeau Field as a member of the Minnesota Vikings, he was not Brett Favre.

Philip Loadholt News: Week 5 inactives: QB Sage Rosenfels , RB Albert Young, CB Asher Allen, WR Darius Reynaud, LB Erin Henderson, WR Greg Lewis, DL Letroy Guion, OT Phil Loadholt.

"You nervous?'' backup Minnesota quarterback Sage Rosenfels asked Brett Favre , the man of the evening, about an hour before the game everyone, and no one, wanted to see Monday night at the Metrodome.

Atari Bigby News: Packers Week 4 inactives: SS Atari Bigby, RB Brandon Jackson, CB Brandon Underwood, OT Breno Giacomini, OT Chad Clifton, LB Jeremy Thompson, DL Mike Montgomery, FB Quinn Johnson.

If there's such a thing as flying under the radar in New York, Tom Coughlin's team is doing it.

Submitted by lorraineperla on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 07:21. Brett Favre against the Packers, guess it still sounds a little strange saying it but after a few more performances like the one on Sunday against the 49ers everyone is probably going to get pretty used to seeing No.

Brett Favre looked like a man redeemed on Sunday, exalting after his first comeback drive with the Vikings , celebrating the evidence that his arm and legend still have a lot of life in them.

Whatever else one may say about Brett Favre, after Sunday afternoon's dramatic 27-24 victory over San Francisco, one fact is unmistakably clear: The old dude can still get the job done.

Wide receiver Percy Harvin and middle linebacker E.J. Henderson suited up for Minnesota after being listed as questionable for Sunday's game against San Francisco.

You really don't think Tiger Woods isn't the PGA Tour player of the year, do you? Well, plenty of people may still feel that way, because he didn't win a major championship this year.

Practice was over, but Adrian Peterson and Percy Harvin wanted to get in some extra conditioning, so they ran sprints back and forth across the field in the Vikings indoor facility.

Loading... 1 of 4 Minnesota Vikings rookie and Virginia Beach native Percy Harvin, left, takes the field for a pre-season game against the Kansas City Chiefs at the Metrodome in Minneapolis on Friday August 21, 2009.

Even with gray in his beard, still has swagger. And for a Vikings team considered a Super Bowl contender even before he arrived, that little something extra Favre adds might be just enough to push the franchise to its first Super Bowl title.

Vikings vice president of player personnel Rick Spielman declined to clear up the situation when asked Tuesday whether the Vikings had any talks about trading Jackson.

It's safe to assume nobody outside Minnesota is starting Brett Favre on their fantasy football team.

This NFL season will be more about Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers, Atlanta's Matt Ryan and maybe Minnesota's Tarvaris Jackson or Sage Rosenfels than it will be about Brett Favre.