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HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Brett Favre acknowledged he's "running out of time" to decide whether he'll play for the Minnesota Vikings this season.
The quarterback told the Associated Press on Wednesday that he will give the Vikings an answer on whether he will play by the July 30 deadline to report to training camp, which begins July 31. Favre's agent, Bus Cook, had no comment on the deadline.
Favre has been working out with the Oak Grove High School football team three days a week all summer but added a Sunday workout this week.
"There's two weeks left, and I'm doing everything I can," Favre said. "I was down here Sunday morning working out. I'm trying to get everything to where I feel 100 percent when I go in. I can't go
Brett Favre
What do you think the chances are that Brett Favre WILL NOT sign with the Minnesota Vikings?
100 %. There's no way Favre will play this season.
99-70 %.
69-40 %.
39-20 %.
19-1 %.
0 %. Favre's just waiting until training camp starts.
in any less. When you're 39 years old, it's hard enough. But it's getting there."
The former Green Bay Packers and New York Jets quarterback said surgery to repair a biceps tendon in his throwing arm was successful and that he has enough velocity to return to the NFL. He is just not sure whether that means he will be able to compete for an entire season.
"I felt like going to New York last year that I still had it," Favre said. "I didn't know my arm was hurt at the time. So that's what I try to get across to people. I had that fixed, the surgery to fix that, so I'm trying to make sure that, if I go back, that part is completely resolved."
It sure looked like Favre's arm was fixed Wednesday when a jovial Favre hit a variety of
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passes to high school and college wide receivers. He was crisp on short timing passes and was hitting receivers in the end zone from about 50 yards away. He attempted a few deep passes off bootlegs and usually hit his targets in stride.
Favre's spirals held true, and he proved he still has plenty of zip when he tossed a deep pass to a college receiver who dropped by to work out. The pass went through the receiver's hands and hit him in the face.
"He's a senior from Southeastern Louisiana, so I put a little more on it," Favre said with a smile.
If the arm strength weren't there, Favre said, he wouldn't make a bid to return for his 19th NFL season.
"I don't think Minnesota would even consider it if I didn't have it," Favre said. "Second of all, I wouldn't even think about it if I didn't have it. Now, having it here and having it on the field on Sundays is two different things; I know that for a fact. I know what it takes to play on Sunday, and I still believe I have that."
Favre said his hesitation is more about what those watching him practice might not see. He used a golfing analogy to explain his situation. What if, he asked, Tiger Woods came back and found he didn't have the same game?
"He goes out and hits a 2-iron, and he thinks it will go the normal distance it has all his life. Then all of a sudden, it's 13 yards short, and he says, 'I don't know why that is because everything felt perfect,' so that's what I have to get through," Favre said.
"If you're throwing, and it's a little off and you have a little pain, it's a little bit understandable. If there's no pain and there's no excuse, that's where you've got a problem. So I want to go out and have one of those days throwing and then have another where all of those throws you make, every warm-up throw you make, or just in general, feels perfect."
The Jets released Favre earlier this year. Dr. James Andrews performed surgery May 22 to address the injured biceps tendon, which hampered Favre down the stretch last season.
The Vikings have remained mostly quiet on the topic in recent weeks, preferring to let Favre work through his rehabilitation from the surgery and make up his own mind.
At a fan forum in June, owner Zygi Wilf made it clear officials were receptive to Favre joining the Vikings and the decision was Favre's to make.
"Right now, it's all up to Brett Favre in terms of where his future is at," Wilf told about 1,200 fans gathered at the State Theatre. "I'll just leave it at that."
Coach Brad Childress has had sporadic conversations with Favre throughout the summer.
"He's trying to make a push to get back," Childress said in June. "I just know this: He won't play unless he feels like he's able to play at the level that he's played over the course of the years. I know he's working hard."
Pioneer Press staff reporter Rick Alonzo contributed to this report.
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imo, he would have been immortalized by the cheese heads had he retired at Green Bay.
The article makes it sounds as if he's 100%. Could it be that a local paper is in the tank for him because he is a home town hero? I find it hard to believe that anyone can be a 100% after an injury like that. But then he's been receiving some of the best medical treatment in the world. 
I don't believe he will join the Vikings...we do not need him. He may drive ticket sales for a couple of games but once he get's pile drived into the turf by some 320 lbs., 25 year old D-Lineman, the fat lady will have sang.
nuff said...
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As an avid Houston Oilers fan (yes, I know they are no longer in existance...sadly), who grew up watching Brett Farve (and hoping his team would win so the despised Cowboys would not go to the next level), I think it would be fun to have him.
That being said....I LOVE the copy/paste job...complete with advertisements 
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St. Favre will save the Vikings. Not 
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(scary @ Jul. 21 2009,5:11 pm)
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(ControlledHyperness @ Jul. 21 2009,4:17 pm)
QUOTE As an avid Houston Oilers fan (yes, I know they are no longer in existance...sadly), who grew up watching Brett Farve (and hoping his team would win so the despised Cowboys would not go to the next level), I think it would be fun to have him. That being said....I LOVE the copy/paste job...complete with advertisements  Breeze! that was sarcasm
what does that word mean.?
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JESUS DID THE ORGANIZING for His church and whenever men go beyond that pattern (found only in the New Testament of Jesus Christ) they do so at their own peril. One needs to only read the New Testament to see the problem that has been created over the last two centuries within the churches.
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(scary @ Jul. 21 2009,5:11 pm)
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(the breeze @ Jul. 21 2009,4:23 pm)
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(ControlledHyperness @ Jul. 21 2009,4:17 pm)
QUOTE As an avid Houston Oilers fan (yes, I know they are no longer in existance...sadly), who grew up watching Brett Farve (and hoping his team would win so the despised Cowboys would not go to the next level), I think it would be fun to have him. That being said....I LOVE the copy/paste job...complete with advertisements Breeze! that was sarcasm
If I wanted it to be sarcastic, I would have inserted this :
 
Seriously tho, it would be neat to have the ever popular icon of Green Bay as our own quarterback
(just for you scary) 
Breeze,
not to demean the smart mind that I have seen through your posts, but sarcasm is that twisted ironic use of words to emphasise a dislike of a particular subject. Wait...maybe that definition should be given to scary instead...
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