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Brett Favre (AP)
Now, that's what I've been waiting for! When Brett Favre shucked and jived in the waning seconds of Sunday's game against the San Francisco 49ers, then threw a bullet into the corner of the end zone for a touchdown to Greg Lewis, every warm-blooded Wisconsin resident said to themselves, "that's the Favre I miss!"
Favre himself admitted that he didn't even know who he was throwing to on his pass to Lewis. In his own words, "I just threw it as hard as he could."
With that pass and win, Favre joined Kirby Puckett, Joe Mauer and Chuck Foreman in the most-loved Minnesota heroes club. Yes, Puckett, Mauer and Foreman toiled many years to achieve that status, but Minneapolis is, at the end of the day, still a football town, and the chance--just the chance--of the Vikings starting the glory road to a Super Bowl, is enough to turn the Twin Cities upside down.
In one week, the Vikings will get their first real test of the year when the Green Bay Packers come to town. With all due respect to the Vikings, the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions are simply bad teams (congrats to Detroit on their first win in ages, though!), and the 49ers are a middle of the pack club.
I will, personally, be doing my part to make the Vikings-Packer game, and Favre's personal vendetta, foremost on all my Packer-loving friends over the next week. A Favre bobblehead in the mailbox, perhaps? Or F-A-R-V-E spelled out in shaving cream on the windshield?
If Favre continues his winning ways, and gets the Vikings the championship that's eluded them for 40+ years, the only question Favre will have to answer is, "What team will you go into the Hall of Fame representing, the Vikings or Packers?"
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