Not bad for a 40 year old QB

[Rambis]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un3B7Og-FS0

[Tobin S.]

1. Yep. He looks like he's got a few more years in him, too.

I'll be 37 on October 4th and it feels really strange to me to be thinking about people my age in professional sports being in decline or already retired. I still feel like I did when I was 20! Well, most of the time. :) Of course, I haven't gotten my body beat up once a week for 20 years, either.

[sasquatch]

2. That was a nice play by old man river Brett Favre

[necso]

3. I tuned-in to watch the last few minutes,

saw the Vikings turn the ball over on downs, thought "Well, there's the game... darn.", and turned off the tv.

Shoot.

[Rambis]

4. It is never over

with the Favre on the field- Hated it when he was a packer:toast:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. Brett's new nickname - Mr. October

Because he'll have nothing left in November and December.

[Rambis]

6. Just has to hand off to AP

then pull out something like he did Sunday and the Viqueens should be ok.

[NJmaverick]

7. As long as he doesn't have to play in the wind or cold

he will be fine

[Captain Hilts]

8. Can he lead the NFL in passing at age 40? This guy did...

[nini]

9. He overthrew the ball.

give the receiver most of the credit on this one. However, the Farve worshipers won't see it that way.

[jobycom]

10. He threw the only place it could have been a completion.

That's what a great QB does. He gives the receiver a chance to make a play. If he threw it lower, it's an interception. Higher, an incompletion. ANY and EVERY great QB does that. You don't have to be a Favre worshipper to see that, you just have to understand the sport a little bit. Check out Montana to Clark, or check out Aikman to Harper, or check out... Oh, any great QB. That's how you do it. Most QBs of any age couldn't have gotten that ball there at that exact moment. Only the best.

[JonLP24]

12. Montana did throw "the catch" a little high

Favre was a little lucky on the play but he also threw a strike to Sidney Rice earlier in the game and drove the Vikings into the red zone right before the second half but the kicker got his kick blocked returned for a TD. Also that throw was at the end of a 80 yard drive in a 1:20 with NO timeouts. Anyways Favre is playing better then Romo, Brady, Rivers, Cutler, and Roethlisberger at this point in the season so clearly it was worth it for the Vikings.

[jobycom]

13. Oh heck yeah, he was lucky.

It took a great effort by the receiver, too. I'm not saying it didn't, or that he wasn't lucky it all came together. I'm just saying he threw that ball the only place he could to give the receiver a chance to catch it. It wasn't overthrown, it was just where it had to be.

That's the story of Brett Favre, right there. Most QBs are so worried about their ratings that they won't throw a risky pass. But Favre knew he had one shot to win, and he'd just as soon end on an interception as a sack, so he took the chance. Favre always takes the chance. People criticize how many interceptions he has thrown, but most of them have been thrown because he had no other options, so he took a chance to try to win, instead of just throwing the ball away and letting the team share in the loss. He does that all the time, and he's made some dumb looking interceptions because of it.

But he's also won a lot of games his team had no business winning doing it. You take away his interceptions, you also take away a lot of his wins. In the last three years he's played on three teams. Look at each of those teams and their records just before he got there, while he was there, and after he left. He's the difference between winning and losing, and it's not an accident or luck, in the big picture. It's because he puts the ball where it has a chance to win the game. Sometimes it gets intercepted instead, but you can't have a QB take risks only when it is going to come out good--that's not a risk. You don't risk it, you don't win--unless you have a team like Tom Brady or Peyton Manning has.

So yeah, he was really lucky that play worked. But most other QBs wouldn't have even given themselves the chance to get lucky in that situation.

[jobycom]

11. He's such a primadonna. All that winning at the last second and stuff.