The NFC championship was on sunday between the New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings. Leading the Vikings was Veteran quarterback Brett Favre. At 40 years old, this was Favre’s 19th year in the league. If you watched football in the 90′s, you’d remember his super bowl victory with the packers. Green Bay being were he spent the majority of his career.
The game was down to the wire. Both teams high-powered offenses driving up and down the field. The Saints were lead by Drew Brees and heisman trophy winner out of USC Reggie Bush. The Vikings struggled with turnovers. Most significantly their fifth of the game when they had a chance to take the lead with a Tie game with seconds to go in the 4th quarter. With the game tied at 28 on third down and long favre rolled out to his right and possibly could have run it for field goal range and instead threw across to the middle of the field against his body. The ball was intercepted and the Saints took it to overtime where they won with a field goal.
It would be a shame to see Favre’s last throw a pick that cost his team the game. He’s the type of player you want to see go out on top. I saw Favre take some of the hardest hits i’ve seen him take on Sun. and i doubt he will return to finish his second year in his contract he has with the Vikings, but it seems like we say that every year and he brings everything he has for another year. I think that ending with 310 yards, 1 TD, 2 interceptions, and almost every quarterback record in football is an ok way to go out.
