Brett Favre is great, and the NFL should thank him many times over for making his return with the Vikings. With all the great games that will be on TV throughout the season, Favre just made some of them alot better.
Combining Favre and Adrian Peterson could give the Vikings one of the league's top scoring offenses to go along with one of the top defensive teams in pro football. Think about some of the games that Favre just made better. The Vikings only have three primetime games all year, with Favre, they could easily have three or four more.
October 25 at Pittsburgh. The game features possibly two Hall of Fame QB's in Favre and Roethlisberger, two of the league's top defenses, and Favre will be facing the defending Super Bowl champions for the first time since the 2005 season.
The very next week, the Vikings travel to Lambeau to finish out the season series with the Packers. This could possibly be the most interesting game of the NFL season. The Packers will be much improved and their high-powered offense will be tested against the Viking defense. It will also be interesting to see how the Packer fans receive Favre as the longtime Packer makes his first return to Lambeau since the gut-wrenching 2007 playoff loss. It will also mark the first time Favre and Aaron Rodgers have met in competition.
December 6th, the Vikings head out west to play the defending NFC champion Arizona Cardinals. With Favre, this game will feature two 2008 playoff teams, and two of the most high-powered offenses in football. The Vikings also manhandled the Cardinals in Phoenix late last season and Arizona should be looking to exact revenge.
January 3rd could prove to be the most pivotal game of the 2009 season as the Vikings host the New York Giants in the final game of the regular season. The Giants dominated the regular season last year and are coming off a dissapointing home playoff loss to the Eagles, the Vikings were defeated by the same Philadelphia team a week earlier. It will mark the first meeting between Favre and the Giants since New York ended Favre's magical 2007 season with an overtime victory at Lambeau. The game could also be for home field throughout the playoffs and supremacy in the NFC.
Brett Favre may cause alot of controversy and has the tendency to hold teams hostage throughout the summer months with his career plans, but TV executives should be sending him their thank-you cards anytime now. With the flexible schedule now in place, more than one of the Vikings' late season games could be moved to primetime, which means bigger TV audiences and more money.
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