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Packers Replay

Player of the Game; In Case You Missed It; more...
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Favre story speaks loudest with silence in the booth

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One of the wisest decisions Fox Sports made on Sunday covering Brett Favre's return was to let the pictures and sounds of the Lambeau Field crowd tell the story.
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Post-game prayer

Check out a panoramic view as Packer and Viking players kneel down in prayer in the center of Lambeau Field after the game as they after the game Sunday.
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Packer fans prepare for Favre's return to Lambeau

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Check out a panoramic view as Packer fans loosen up a bit before the epic showdown featuring Brett Favre's return to Lambeau Field as a Minnesota Viking.
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One for the ages: Packers vs. Vikings, 3:15 p.m.

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Keep tabs on the rematch this afternoon as Brett Favre returns to Lambeau Field and the Vikings face the Packers. Greg A. Bedard will update all of the action in our live blog and you can also follow the game with our live scoreboard.
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Packer fans prepare for Favre's return to Lambeau

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Check out a panoramic view as Packer fans loosen up a bit before the epic showdown featuring Brett Favre's return to Lambeau Field as a Minnesota Viking.
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Their prodigal neighbor

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While Packers fans mass at Lambeau Field, Bob Harlan says he will be somewhere else far from the roar of the crowd. "I don't want to see [Brett Favre] come out of that tunnel in a purple jersey at Lambeau Field," Harlan says. Yes, this game is that emotional.
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These days, the ring is the thing for Woodson

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Betrayal? Animosity? Revenge? No, those reasons ring hollow for Charles Woodson, a teammate of Brett Favre's for two seasons, including one in which they made it all the way to the NFC Championship. This game is important because Favre is the next quarterback standing in the way...
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Preview: Packers vs. Vikings

A look at Green Bay's game against Minnesota
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Pancakes on the menu

The Green Bay Packers figure to give the Minnesota Vikings their first taste of rookie fullback Quinn Johnson on Sunday at Lambeau Field.
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Favre likely won't be introduced Sunday

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If you're coming to cheer or boo Brett Favre on Sunday at Lambeau Field, don't expect there to be a specific cue from the public address announcer.
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This week in the NFL

Game of the Week, Who’s Hot, Who’s Not
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Parity is headed for a blowout

The National Football League has long prided itself in being a league of great parity, at least since the salary cap was instituted for the 1994 season. Unlike Major League Baseball, every team has a chance. You can go worst-to-first easily in one year (the secret is you need to play...
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Power rankings

Tom Silverstein ranks the NFL teams 1-32.
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Tom Silverstein's Week 8 picks

Packers beat writer Tom Silverstein predicts the outcome of NFL games. Game Point spread Straight up vs. spread Vikings at Packers Packers by 3 Packers Packers Broncos at Ravens Ravens by 3 Ravens Ravens Browns at Bears Bears by 13 Bears Bears Texans at Bills Texans by 3...
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Defense is cooking up turnovers

The Vikings aren't giving much away these days, which means the bandit defense of the Green Bay Packers might find its chances at turnovers few and far between this Sunday at Lambeau Field. But not impossible.
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Return engagement

Last week, the Packers had to prepare for Cleveland's Joshua Cribbs, the league's leading punt returner and No. 4 kickoff returner, and this week it's Minnesota's Percy Harvin, the league's No. 1 kickoff returner, with a 29.8 average and two touchdowns.
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Congress warns NFL about head trauma

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Willie Wood, a Pro Football Hall of Famer who has dementia, is among a number of retired football players who have developed serious memory problems after leaving the NFL. The plight of those former players was the subject of a hearing Wednesday by the House Judiciary Committee.
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Rodgers finally wins them over

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How long does it take to go from scorned to loved? In sports, it can happen from one at-bat to another, one down to the next. It takes a little longer when you're replacing a living legend who was refused his old job: 14 months. Ask Aaron Rodgers.
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Security ready to form standard protective pocket around Favre, Vikings

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From the time Brett Favre and his Minnesota Vikings land in Wisconsin until the moment they take off, he'll be as secure as if he were standing behind a dozen 350-pound offensive linemen.
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Offensive line is a work in progress

Before the week ends, Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy hopes to have the offensive line he'll stick with for the rest of the season. Right now, however, the wheel is spinning and where it stops nobody knows.
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Straight shooter off target

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OK, Minnesotans, where is Brett Favre and what have you done with him? Because whoever that monotone graybeard was in Eden Prairie, Minn., answering questions about the come-to-Curly moment awaiting Favre on Sunday, when he returns to Lambeau Field as a member of the Minnesota Vikings...
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Fans tell of boos and blues

To get a perspective on the tortured, conflicted and confused jumble of emotions Green Bay Packers fans must confront as their favorite son bursts from the tunnel at Lambeau Field wearing a Minnesota Vikings uniform, we visited with two authors whose hearts - yea, whose very souls...
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NFL by the numbers

PACKERS 1 Games this season in which the Packers have committed more turnovers than their opponent (minus-1 vs. Minnesota, Oct. 5). 2 How many more interceptions the Packers have on defense (11) than their opponent has completed touchdown passes (nine).
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Game review: Packers 31, Browns 3

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OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE GAME Ryan Grant, running back, Packers: Grant's 148-yard outburst was the third-biggest of his career, surpassed only by a 201-yard day against Seattle in the 2007 playoffs and a 156-yard day against Oakland on Dec. 9 of the same year. It also was his...
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