Brett Farve Retirement Rumors Fly Again…

To retire or not to retire?

That is the question that continues year after year. It is asked, answered, decided on and then, just when we think Brett Farve has hung up his throwing arm, here he comes back out on the field.

Philadelphia sports commentator Howard Eskin of WIP radio tweeted rumors that the Eagles might be interested in Brett Farve as a back up to Michael Vick after Kevin Kolb is traded.

The Vikings brought their “A” game today, but it looked like the Giants left theirs at home.

There didn’t seem to be any interest or effort from the New York Giants.  There will probably be some major player changes soon to come, at least if they want more from their team there will be.

The Minnesota Vikings on the other hand played strong.  Brett Farve was 25 of 31 for 316 yards and four touchdowns in Minnesota’s 44-7 win.

Minnesota Vikings’ running back Adrian Peterson broke a team record this Sunday with 14 TD’s this season.  He ran for 97 yards and 2 touch downs against the Bengals.

 
Longtime Minnesota Vikings fans share a sense of dread with Chicago Cubs fans. They have been disappointed before, by four Super Bowl losses in the 1970s, and more recently by National Football Conference championship game defeats in the 1998 and 2000 seasons. And no matter how promising things look (Brett Favre, anybody?), disaster seems to threaten around every corner.

Chris Johnson, the incredible Tennessee Titans running back dashing at a 2,000-yard pace, doesn’t have a chance.

Neither does Philip Rivers, the puckish San Diego Chargers quarterback who has led his team on a seven-game winning streak, rendering irrelevant its 2-3 start.

Even Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre, the ancient miracle man of the frozen North, is finding it difficult to compete with the two beasts devouring the rest of the NFL.

With the season officially entering its fourth quarter, though, we shouldn’t dismiss Favre.

The NFL has decided to leave the Minnesota Vikings/Carolina Panthers as the Sunday night game on NBC Dec. 20, but will move up the 1 p.m. Green Bay vs. Pittsburgh game to the Fox 4:15 slot to give that network a game with Wild Card playoff implications.

Brett Farve’s potential MPV season with the division-dominating Vikings is one of the top stories of the season, while both the league’s undefeated teams are already scheuled for prime time matchups. Indianapolis plays Jacksonville on the NFL Net’s Thursday night game that week, while New Orleans plays Dallas in a Saturday night matchup.

As the NFL season progresses, each game becomes increasingly more important, unless you’re the Indianapolis Colts and already have a playoff spot wrapped up. Many teams got much needed wins (Arizona Cardinals, Oakland Raiders, Denver Broncos, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins & NY Giants), while others were not so fortunate (Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Minnesota Vikings & San Francisco 49ers).

Because so many NFL players have a live, unfiltered feed to their fans through Twitter, Sunday afternoons and evenings make for an entertaining cap to each week.

Minnesota Vikings linebacker E.J. Henderson suffered a gruesome leg injury in last night’s game against the Arizona Cardinals. With just under seven minutes remaining in the game, the Cardinals held a 17-point lead and were trying to run down the clock. Arizona running back Tim Hightower rushed to the right side and headed downfield, where Vikings safety Jamarca Sanford attempted a diving tackle. Hightower broke the tackle and Sanford collided with Henderson, resulting in a ghastly injury. After the game Vikings head coach Brad Childress said Henderson broke his femur and will spend the night in Phoenix.

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Jesse Warner is 17, and yet when you ask her about the sport that made her father rich and famous, she speaks with the jaded weariness of someone who has been around forever.

“Honestly, I’ve gotten kind of tired of the whole football thing in general,” Kurt Warner’s eldest daughter says. “I’m tired of the injuries, how difficult it is to go through the ups and downs, and just the whole business side of things. I’ve been dealing with it my whole life, and I’m just sort of done with it. The whole thing has been kind of exhausting.”

Ben Roethlisberger was “hurt” by teammate Hines Ward’s remarks questioning why a concussion kept him out of an important game against the Ravens.

But the Steelers quarterback now agrees he shouldn’t have played.

Roethlisberger patched up his relationship with Ward during a phone call Monday, and the two have since moved on to Sunday’s game against Oakland.

“He reached out to me and I told him I was just hurt more than anything else,” Roethlisberger said Thursday. “You know, we got over it, moved past it and now we’re preparing.”