Favre’s return to Green Bay draws big TV audience
NEW YORK (AP)—Brett Favre’s(notes) return to Green Bay was must-see viewing for NFL fans.
Fox’s national game Sunday, which was mainly the Vikings’ 38-26 win over the Packers, was the network’s second most-watched Sunday telecast since it started airing the NFL in 1994, with 29.8 million viewers. The record was 32.1 million for 49ers-Cowboys in 1995.
The game drew a 17.4 rating and 32 share, up 26 percent from the comparable window last year.
The rating is the percentage of households with televisions tuned to a program. The share is the percentage of homes watching among those with TVs in use at the time.
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Bring in the janitor cause you've been SWEPT! Next time keep your cheese-brained comments to yourselves, ahh Chilly, what you have done for the Vikes...so good!
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Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
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Like This
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d8056a623/Bears-Defense-Highlight-WK-16-vs-Packers-2007
And does this look like a good team?
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d805681da/NFL-GameDay-Packers-vs-Bears-highlights
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So ok, GB's got to get on with their life and so they do, without Favre - well Favre was only going to last another year or two anyway and when you're building a team you've got to llok at the next 4- 5 years. So everyone should be happy. Favre got to play football and pulled the Jets out of the sewer and now he's leading Minn to their best year in anyone's memory. GB got their new quarterback - it was a win-win.
Favre by the way still has the zip in that arm of his - he can whip that ball as good as anyone around and he's got his accuracy. His handoff moves are the best in football - he's not having a problem except for his aching old bones which will give out this year or next. I'm really enjoying watching him play. Go Brett!
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does he really think he deserves my love anymore?
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The Pack are young the Vikes are not. The Pack have almost no Pro Bowlers the Vikes have both lines (the guy's in the trenches where it counts) stacked with PBowlers, the VIkings keep Matt Birk and AD would have 2000 yards already. It's the O-Line and the D-line and the best player in the leauge that have Brett looking like he's 30 again and if he win's us a Super Bowl it's worth all of it:-).
One of these post talked about having watched Brett beat us over and over and this is payback that was the best comment of all, but Cheeseheads as we learned through many years of Brett torching us that payback is short lived and doesn't hurt nearly as much as you think. Go Vikes! Go Norris Division!
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