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[packerbacker1234]

Favre Has surgery

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5209161

Sources: Andrews operated on Favre

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By Chris Mortensen
ESPN.com
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Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre underwent arthroscopic surgery on his injured left ankle Friday morning by noted orthopedic specialist Dr. James Andrews, several sources told ESPN.com.

Favre had surgery at the Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze, Fla., where Favre and his agent Bus Cook were spotted by a handful of people.

Dr. Andrews cleaned up scar tissue and other elements of the joint to allow Favre a better range of motion, sources said.

A source close to Favre said the 40-year-old signal caller would likely need four-to-six weeks of rehabilitation before beginning a running program that would put him on schedule to report to training camp "either at the beginning of camp or shortly thereafter."

Favre had said he would need the surgery if he were going to play in 2010. He was unavailable for comment.

yeah, just further shows he is coming back. Just a matter of when he wants to start practice at this point.

[Pugger]

But I continue find it remarkable that a guy with a ring and 3 MVPs on his resume would still need to be begged to come back, even after that INT in OT. I don't believe for one moment that anyone pushed Favre into 'retirement' either. There is no way MM was gonna bench #4 in favor of Rodgers had Favre not retired. Why would a HC want his starting QB out the door after #4 had just lead his team to the conference championship game?? Favre played brilliantly in 07 and there would've been a lynch mob outside of MM's office at 1265 had he tried to bench Favre in 08. If Favre was feeling unloved that was his fault, no one else's.

[RashanGary]

This whole fantasy that teams can't do it without Brett is a built up fairytale. For years we heard how the Packers were going to drop off the National face as soon as we lost Favre. We were in the playoffs last year and are a national favorite to win the SB.

Two years ago the Jets missed the playoffs with Brett, but Favre's fans credited Brett with their whole turn around. Year after he leaves, they're in the playoffs.

The Vikings were in the playoffs aftter startering Ferrotte and Jackson the year before. Ferrotte was out of the leauge the next year. They made the playoffs with a QB that didn't even belong in the league.

Now they made it with Brett and he's the savior/hero. They wouldn't have been there without him.

Sorry, not buying it. Vikings are good with our without Favre. Jets were. Packers are. And that goes to all of the Rodgers fans too. QB's don't make teams SB contenders. QB's are fortunate enough to play on SB contenders and then take all of the credit for it because the camera follows the ball. It's easy to forget the whole game that goes on because we don't see it unless we really look. Without a good team, a QB is useless. Brett too, Rodgers too.

[Scott Campbell]

So for you, it was Super Bowl or bust eh? To many others, last season was a massive success.

Not at all. It was the horrific manner in which he choked away their season that made everything else irrelevant. That pass to Tracy Porter became the signature moment of his season, if not his career.

[pack4to84]

I was talking too some of my Viking friends at work. They say it still hurts having lost the way they did to the Saints. I told them us Packer fans know what your going through, because he did this to us every time we made the playoffs after the SB run.

[Scott Campbell]

I think Darren Sharper may feel the same way as I do about Bert.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/05/22/darren-sharper-on-brett-favre-surgery-x-marks-the-spot/

[PlantPage55]

This whole fantasy that teams can't do it without Brett is a built up fairytale. For years we heard how the Packers were going to drop off the National face as soon as we lost Favre. We were in the playoffs last year and are a national favorite to win the SB.

Agreed. The words "you wouldn't be there without him" are instantly vomit-inducing for me.

There's no way of proving that and to throw something like that out there so carelessly reveals a lot more about one's football knowledge than they clearly believe it does.

[Scott Campbell]

So for you, it was Super Bowl or bust eh? To many others, last season was a massive success.

That's a little like toasting the early success of the Hindenburg. All people remember is:

[Bretsky]

gosh for a while this thread was actual level headed; I see that's gone again

[falco]

gosh for a while this thread was actual level headed; I see that's gone again

Really? I don't think there is anyone level headed in this thread. Everyone pretty much leans one way or the other.

[digitaldean]

So Favre's coming back again, huh?

Well, I say bring it on. No reason to be down or worried about it.

Our team needs to take care of its own business and not worry who the QB is in Queens-land.

I admire his drive to want to try again. I just want our team to put the DAGGER into those hopes once and for all.

[Packerarcher]

I think Darren Sharper may feel the same way as I do about Bert.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...arks-the-spot/

I am so shocked you condone dirty play,that's about your style.

[Packerarcher]

gosh for a while this thread was actual level headed; I see that's gone again

Level headed and Scott Cambell can not coincide in a Favre thread.

[Scott Campbell]

I think Darren Sharper may feel the same way as I do about Bert.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...arks-the-spot/

I am so shocked you condone dirty play,that's about your style.

Well you wife sure seems to enjoy it.


But seriously, where did I say I condone dirty play? And speaking of dirty play, I'm reminded of this:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4446703

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre was fined $10,000 by the NFL on Friday for his crackback block on Houston defensive back Eugene Wilson in a preseason game.

The play happened on Monday night at Houston in Favre's first extensive action since he signed with the Vikings on Aug. 18.

The 39-year-old lined up at receiver in Minnesota's version of the wildcat offense. Rookie receiver Percy Harvin took the snap and started running around the left end in Favre's direction. Despite playing with sore ribs, the quarterback crouched and threw his body at Wilson's legs to cut him down.

The game was televised nationally and the block caused an uproar in Houston and elsewhere around the league. Wilson injured his left knee on the play and defensive players have long considered that type of block a dirty play.

"What was up with that?" Wilson said after the game when asked about the block. "Seriously, what was up with that?"

[Tony Oday]

I think this could be the year that he finally starts breaking down. He is not young and keeps getting scar tissue cleaned up. I think this is great for the Pack he cant move around anymore and really he is in trouble behind that line.

That all being said thanks for the PAck Memories and hell the memory of the pick in last years NFC Champ game!