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Ten years from now when you’re quizzed on useless NFL trivia, and someone asks “Who has the longest game-start streak in the NFL, and who ended that streak?”, your answers will be:

• Brett Favre, of the Minnesota Vikings 2010, 297 games
• Arthur Moats, of the Buffalo Bills December 5th 2010

Will Brett Favre ever play again? I cannot imagine so. I’d have toughed it out to make 300 and called it quits but hey, who am I kidding? I’m not taking hits like that every week, nor am I in my 40s (unless you round up from 30?).

Here’s the horribly uploaded video of Favre taking his career-ending hit from behind, and throwing up yet another interception. Good bye, old man.

Did Brett Favre cause the snowstorm in Minnesota? Was he responsible for the Metrodome roof collapsing? Was he the one that routed the airplane transporting the New York Giants football team to head to Kansas City instead of Minneapolis?

All of these are conspiracies that assist in explaining why Brett Favre needed another day of rest for his injured throwing shoulder. Is there anything that Brett Favre won’t do to keep his consecutive starts streak alive? How else do you explain a major snowstorm that swept through Minneapolis, crippling the Twin Cities on Saturday and forcing the postponement and relocation of the Vikings-Giants game to Monday night in Detroit?

How do you explain that this 30-hour delay occurs on a week where it looked like Favre’s streak was kaput because of an injury to his throwing shoulder? An injury so severe that most quarterbacks would have ruled out even the remotest possibility that they were going to go through with it?

Favre must have some kind of wacky weather machine that can produce a winter storm system so strong that it can dump 17 inches of snow on Minneapolis, so much that it caved in the roof of the Metrodome, making it unfit for an NFL game. On Saturday, the Giants were diverted to Kansas City and stranded there overnight. At Newark Airport on Saturday afternoon there was a report that at least one runway was open at Lindbergh Field at the Minneapolis Airport. But it must not have been one that the Giants’ charter could use. Or did Favre make a call?

How far does this guy’s reach stretch?

View the video of the roof collapsing!

It’s about time. You cannot expect to stay a head coach in the NFL when you lose the respect of your star players. Perhaps Brett Favre is next to be axed??!?

The Minnesota Vikings have relieved Brad Childress of his coaching duties and promoted defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier to interim coach for the rest of the season, the team said. Frazier and Vikings owner Zygi Wilf are scheduled to hold a news conference at 4 p.m. ET at the team’s facility.

The Vikings, tabbed as a preseason Super Bowl pick, struggled to a 3-7 record amid dysfunction. Wilf had said he would stick with Childress, but the last straw was apparently the team’s humbling 31-3 loss to the archrival Green Bay Packers on Sunday. The 31-3 loss was his most-lopsided home defeat in Childress’ five years as Vikings coach, dropping his overall record to 40-37, including 1-2 in the playoffs.

The New England Patriots sources say the deal is contigent upon Randy Moss working out a contract with the Minnesota Vikings. All sides are still trying to hammer out the contract Tuesday.

In a 41-point outburst last night over the Dolphins, Moss caught zero passes, and he has made his displeasure known with his contract status in New England.

Moss, 33, was a first-round pick of the Vikings in 1998 and shined for several years before being shipped to Oakland in 2005. The four-time All-Pro and seven-time Pro Bowl selection was traded from the Raiders to the Patriots on Day 1 of the 2007 NFL draft in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the ’07 draft.

What are the Patriots looking to acquire in the trade? A third round pick. Nice gain — over two seasons with one of the best receivers of all time and a bump up of a round in draft pick selection.

Following up on my previous story, it looks more and more like Favre is announcing his retirement.

Again.

I actually believe Brett Favre will announce his decision, a la “The Favre Decision”, during a 2-hour prime time special that will make LeBron James jealous. And just as Brett is about to make his decision to the public, at the 1-hour-30-minute mark, Kanye West hops in to remind us that Joe Montana was the greatest quarterback of all time. OF ALL TIME!

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Yes, here we are again. It’s that time of year, where we sit and make fun of ourselves being on “on the edge of our seats” regarding Brett Favre’s decision to play in the NFL again or not.

Personally, I hope he calls it quits. In my 6 Fantasy Football leagues, I didn’t pick up a single Vikings Wide Receiver, or Brett himself, due to not knowing who will be tossing the rock this season.

Let’s turn back to last year, when Favre was last suited up. The New Orleans Saints had just administered a physical and psychological beating to the NFL’s all-time passing leader who refused to submit. The Vikings’ crushing 31-28 overtime defeat in the NFC championship game, where Favre whipped an interception in the closing seconds of regulation, left him with a swollen ankle and a severe thigh bruise the color of eggplant. ”People can talk about the ankle and my thigh and all that stuff, but those will mend. I just said, ‘I can’t take this. It’s just too hard to digest.’ “ The NFL fined Saints defensive end Bobby McCray for improperly hitting Favre in third quarter. He was sandwiched high and low, injuring his left ankle when blindsided below the knees.

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The Madden Curse. We’re familiar. We’re aware.

Congratulations Saints, but I hope you have a backup quarterback ready to go.

If I was Drew, perhaps I would have said “Uhm, yeah, thanks guys.. I appreciate it. But I’ll pass. Go hit up Jared Allen, we don’t want to play the Vikings anyhow.”

Take a look at the past Madden NFL cover athletes, and their fate that year.

Troy Polamalu injured his posterior cruciate ligament

Brett Favre admitted to suffering a torn biceps injury

Vince Young sustained a knee injury which put him out of the game; he didn’t start again for the rest of the year

Shaun Alexander sustained a foot injury that caused him to miss six starts

Donovan Mcnabb tore the ACL and meniscus in his right knee

Ray Lewis had his season cut short in week 15 with a wrist injury

Michael Vick broke his leg in pre-season and missed the first 12 games

Marshall Faulk underwent reconstructive knee surgery and retired