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Favre rides yet again with Vikings

Eternal quarterback manages to stave off retirement for one more season with Minnesota.

LEGENDARY QUARTERBACK BRETT Favre made his NFL comeback  with the Minnesota Vikings after one of the longest transfer sagas in recent NFL history.

The Mississippi native made a brief cameo in the Vikings’ pre-season 15-10 defeat against the San Francisco 49ers, spiking NBC ratings overnight.

Favre will be 41 next month, and has delayed his retirement for one year to play with the Vikings- whom he led to within one game of the Superbowl last year. Favre also won one Superbowl- XXXI in 1997- with the Green Bay Packers.

The former Packers, New York Jets and Atlanta Falcons player has been selected in the Pro Bowl team eleven times in an eighteen-year career.

“The expectations are high here, as they should be,” Favre told The Guardian when he announced his new Vikings contract, “from my standpoint, I can’t make any guarantees, never would. I’m just going to do everything I can to help this football team. I spoke with the guys this morning. I think they know I’m sincere and honest. The bottom line is winning. I’m not here to set any records. People say:  ‘You can do this, you can do this.’ I’ve done it all. There’s nothing left to prove. I’m here to have fun and help these guys win.