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4th Quarter

6:21 p.m.  Packers' 5th Drive  :27
Matt Flynn in at quarterback.  Hook and ladder.  Fumble - Sitton recovers.  Now it's schoolyard time.

6:16 p.m.  Vikings' 5th Drive  2:38
Drive start: Green Bay 27
Fans, as the Vikings run down the clock, if you boo someone about the result of this game, boo the Packers' offensive and defensive lines.  Six sacks and a battered Aaron Rodgers, and no sacks on Favre.

6:09 p.m.  Packers' 4th Drive  3:48
Drive start: Green Bay 27
Who would have ever thought a guy named Percy would have killed the Packers on the return of Brett Favre?

Rodgers is limping, and the O-tackles are not giving him any help.  He seems like he's grabbing his ribs.  Bad O-line again.

Ted Thompson is sitting alone in his booth right now.  I would not want to be looking down into the crowd who may be looking at him right now.

Jennings now hurt on the Vikings bench after an incompletion.  The first guy to go and look at how he's doing?  Favre.  I'm seeing him do something classy.  You see, he's human.  He's not the devil wearing purple and white.  He's made some wrong moves in his life recently, but he's not evil.  I would have booed him, too, but I won't call him the devil.

How appropriate?  Allen Barbre gets nailed for holding after a first down throw to Jones at midfield.  Open tryouts for O-line roster spots at 7:00 p.m. tonight at Lambeau?

4th-and-20, make that 4th-and-any-division-championship-opportunity: Rodgers scrambles for his life then throws incomplete.

Blame this loss on the O-line.

6:03 p.m.  Vikings' 4th Drive  5:49
Minnesota 38, Green Bay 26
Favre-Berrian 16 yd TD pass
Drive start: Minnesota 41
Oh did that miss hurt.  Especially for field position.

It just improved a bunch more thanks to a 45-yard Favre-to-Peterson screen pass.  Yeesh.  Packers' defense did nothing to defend it.

Now, you MUST stop the Vikings from breaking into the end zone.

Two run stuffs create 3rd-11.  The 3rd time out by Green Bay here....WHY????????

Here we go - game on the line here: Berrian to the end zone.  Game over, realistically.

5:56 p.m.  Packers' 3rd Drive  8:13
Drive start: Green Bay 18
About 4:47 p.m., I thought Green Bay was dead.  Down 21.  Now, they can actually take the lead.

Kuhn breaks two tackles to go 15 yards.  The Kuhn-birds rain out in long-U voweled applause.

Rodgers takes a bad snap and creates a miracle play with a diving grab to Driver...uh-oh, he's hurt.  Roughing the passer!!!!  Nice.  31-yard play combined.

Driver remains down after about two minutes.  To lose him would REALLY hurt.  Few wideouts on the roster. 

Driver limps off on his own power.

Jake Allen into the game...McCarthy goes with three-wideout sets.  Smart with this explosiveness this team now has.

Jennings breaks tackles to the 27...Ahmad Carroll disease for Vikings tacklers.  DRIVER BACK ON THE FIELD.  Nice.

And as we praiser the Packers offense, Jared Allen comes in untouched.  I COULD HAVE BLOCKED BETTER on that one.

3rd-7 at the Minnesota 33: incomplete for Driver.  Bennie Sapp with good defense there.  Rodgers limps.  Ugh.  Ugh.  Ugh.

Will we get the ball back again after a field goal we NEED to have.  Nope.  Wide right.

5:50 p.m.  Vikings' 2nd Drive  10:26
Drive start: Minnesota 26
Bad news: Crosby has short kickoffs to Harvin.  Good news; the special teams actually stopped him.

Larry says the Packers have 257 2nd half yards.  Wow.  But the defense must stop somebody now.

Uh oh.  Peterson gets another long run.  He's got 29 yards in two plays.  Pickett gets handled by Herrera.

Favre got hit from behind but his arm was coming forward...an INC.  Credit Matthews with being SUPER active.  This guy is a player.  Great pick by Thompson.

3rd down: wide of the mark thanks to getting hit AGAIN as he released it.  Now, a long march for the Packers to take the lead.

5:42 p.m.  Packers' 1st Drive
Rodgers-Jennings 10 yd TD pass (2pt pass failed)
Drive start: Green Bay 27
Two scores, guys.  Two scores. 

Ryan Grant looking like Ahman Green on 1st down with the 8 yard line, especially running left with the ball in his right hand.  That was a HUGE pet peeve of mine.

When was the last time you heard this from Wayne Larrivee: "Rodgers with plenty of time."

Again, Rodgers smart to take it himself....VERY SMART!  Inside the 15 yard line....35 yard gain!!!!!!!!!  And he is pumping his fist!  Jennings helped out by continuing to run a pass route, taking a tackler out of the play.

A blitz off the edge cuts down on Rodgers' time in the pocket. 

Uh oh...3rd and 5 at the 10.  If you get the field goal, it's not a killer, but a TD becomes so huge because holding the Vikes to a FG next drive means it's a 7 point game.

JENNINGS MAKES AN INCREDIBLE CATCH IN THE END ZONE DESPITE THE INTERFERENCE!   One of the great catches I've witnessed in....how long? 

5:35 p.m.  Vikings' 1st Drive (continued from 3rd Quarter)
Minnesota 31, Green Bay 20
Favre-Dugan 2 yd TD pass
1st-goal at the 9: Pickett stacks up Peterson.  They've owned him. 

Taylor skips to the five yard line, getting past Matthews.  He just turned Clay into looking like a rookie.

Rice gave a block on Matthews to cause it.

McCarthy wastes another time out.  He had to run to the five yard line to get the official's attention. 

3rd-goal at the 2: Jeff Dugan outside and Favre throws to him, just like we saw a million times here.

3rd Quarter

5:29 p.m.  Vikings' 4th Drive  1:57
Drive start: Green Bay 38
Oh no.  Harvin into Packers territory.  Wayne: "Unbelievable.  He is an explosion play waiting to happen."

3rd down.  HUGE 3rd down on the 35.  Favre finds Harvin.  Wayne says every time on 3rd down, Favre is searching for Harvin.  He found him that time for 14 yards. 

Wayne: "Boy, this has been a momentum killer."

Face mask on B.J. Raji.  You can't be a rookie in this game, buster.  I can imagine Lombardi grabbing him by the face mask.

5:22 p.m.  Packers' 4th Drive  5:57
Minnesota 24, Green Bay 20
Rodgers-Havner 5 TD pass
Drive start: Green Bay 16
Now you've got to drive 84 yards.  A TD drive totally changes the complexion of this game. 

It's confirmed that Brett Favre blew a huge booger out of his nose after that Minnesota 3-and-out.  The same guy who said "you think God never farted?"  He's just like any of us guys, even though we don't like his behavior in recent years.

Rodgers-to-Green pushing for a first down, then Jones for a 42-yard crossing pattern!  AT LAST!  PASS PROTECTION!!!!

Rodgers-to-Jennings outside the 10!  The quick-release passing game can also help the O-line look good, when they only have to block for 1.5 seconds instead of three.

Bennie Sapp horse-collared Greg Jennings at the six yard line, but there's no flag.  No conspiracy theory here about the refs, just that they've missed calls.

3rd-4 inside the 5....Rodgers TD!!!!!!!!!!!  Wayne: "Spencer Havner again!"

5:18 p.m.  Vikings' 3rd Drive  6:30
Drive start: Minnesota 34
The Packers' defense hasn't been horrible - only one true long touchdown drive today.  Still, they have to do a better job defending Favre's passing game. 

The Vikings are wise to the squib kick strategy, and they're getting the ball to Harvin anyway on returns.  Great draft pick by the Vikes, although if he acts like he reportedly did in college, it will come back to bite them.

Favre pass tipped....but it hits the ground despite Collins' diving attempt.  Those are the plays that would go Green Bay's way if they're really destined to win this game.

2nd down: tipped up....AGAIN incomplete.  Barnett altered Favre's arm on the throw, and a bunch of Packers that could have made the pick, and they stopped each other from doing it.

3rd down: a more standard incompletion.  This possession may have been the biggest of the season for Green Bay.  Call this a major turning point.

5:10 p.m.  Packers' 2nd Drive  8:28
Minnesota 24, Green Bay 13
Rodgers-Havner 16 yd TD pass
Drive start: Minnesota 41
Robinson fumbled - a Vikings D-lineman - and Nick Colins digs the ball out!  That's what they needed.

Now, to capitalize.

Larry: "They gotta punch this thing in."

Rodgers gets Grant inside the 30 despite being nearly killed in the backfield avoiding another sack.  This O-line is pathetic.  Rodgers even being alive, let alone hitting receivers, is a miracle.

Driver gets another great throw from Rodgers to the 20 yard line.

Grant makes a tackle-breaking run to the 15...I think the Packers may have the most schizophrenic offense in football: the best skill position players to have a line as bad as this.

RODGERS-HAVNER!!!!  HECK OF A DIVING GRAB!!!!

4:57 p.m.  Packers' 1st Drive  13:08
Minnesota 24, Green Bay 6
Drive start: Green Bay 30
Rodgers-Jennings connecting for a nice 30-yard gain.  Uh, we'll need a LOT of these, guys.  O-line, you gotta protect better.

Packers 2-8 on 3rd down: you need one here.  TD's are mandatory now, guys.  Rodgers got the first down himself, FINALLY getting it with his feet.

1st down: Asher Allen mugs Driver, nearly armed robbery.  After a near first down, Barbre gets shoved by Edwards and the refs miss it.  Boos for the refs louder than they even were for Favre in pregame.

Rodgers wastes a time out trying to stop the play clock, that's after a guy doesn't line up where he should. 

Embarassing.  This O-line stinks.  They need to hold tryouts for the general public right now.

They get to a first and goal on a throw to Lee...he looked like Ed "The Tool Box" West there.  One of my favorite nicknames in history.

3rd down and goal...and Rodgers owned again by Jared Allen.  Now it's time to go for it.  A three score lead remains if you kick a field goal.  WHAAAAAAAAAAA?

4:47 p.m.  Vikings' 1st Drive  15:00
Minnesota 24, Green Bay 3
Favre-Harvin 51 yd TD pass
Drive start: Minnesota 37
Another problem we're finding today: field position.  Minnesota's = outstanding, Green Bay's = stinky.

Hutchinson gets called for holding - the first time they've had a call today.  AP is being controlled and that's about the only thing the Packers have done well today so far.

3rd down and 17: Berrian makes a 19-yard catch and pays for it.  Bigby makes the attempt to hit him, Still, ugh.

Again...Favre-to-Harvin for the TD bomb.  Nick Collins shaken up with a head injury.

2nd Quarter

4:32 p.m.  Packers' 3rd Drive  :02
Drive start: Green Bay 33
C'mon, Aaron.  Get the team chaplain to say a few Hail Mary's and throw one.  Notre Dame hit one last night.

Rodgers hands it to Grant.  Ugh.  He gets up and crawls.  Symbolic of the half you just witnessed.

4:23 p.m.  Vikings' 3rd Drive  2:20
Minnesota 17, Green Bay 3
Longwell 41 yd FG
Drive start: Minnesota 40
Favre starts it with a 13-yard gain to Rice before the two-minute boo warning, and these boos won't go toward Favre, but the Packers' stinky offensive line. 

He's moving the chains with the short pass.  I remember his philosophy so often on 2-minute offense: just get first downs.  That's what he's doing.  Sidney Rice to the 22.  Wayne: "goodness."

Key 3rd down as the clock winds down on 3rd-11...Favre dumps to Taylor, dropped.  Thankfully.  It will still be a two-score game in an UGLY, UGLY contest.

4:17 p.m.  Packers' 2nd Drive  6:53
Drive start: Green Bay 8
Make that the Green Bay 4 thanks to Allen Barbre holding.  Oh my goodness.  That's more like a wrestling grapple hold to the ground.  THINK, McFly!

Rodgers FINALLY runs the football himself with no one to throw to and get some yards.  3rd and 2.  Nice.

3rd-2: PENALTY MARKER DOWN - wasting a great completion to Jennings.  FIVE PENALTIES in one half.  This one on Lang.   Thankfully it's offsetting, and Driver makes a first down catch, nearly losing the ball with Kennedy covering Driver.

Pat Williams with sack number four.  Ugh.  Rodgers has been off a little bit, as Wayne put it.

4:09 p.m.  Vikings' 2nd Drive  9:23
Drive start: Minnesota 48
Peterson's first big gain of the day - 33 yards.  He had 20 previous yards on 11 carries.  A poor man's Sanders but with better ability to punish the defender.  This guy is incredible.

Larry: "The Packers really need a turnover.  A lot of problems could be solved by taking that ball away."

Favre misses an open Berrian in the end zone . Not a turnover, but it's still a two-score game...wait...penalty markers down before Longwell sets himself.  A neutral zone infraction.  More yellow hanky stuff.  Yeeeesh.

Still 4th down, but the offense goes back on the field...and PETERSON IS STUFFED!  Pickett does the job.

4:02 p.m.  Packers' 1st Drive  10:42
Drive start: Green Bay 23
Wayne: "Time for the offense to step up now."  Jared Allen says no to that idea with a sack.  Just what I was afraid of.  Allen just ate T.J. Lang for a midafternoon snack.  Would you like tea and crumpets with that?

3rd down: James Jones had Greenway beaten but he responded to knock down the pass.  3 and out.  Ugh.

3:55 p.m.  Vikings' 1st Drive  14:19
Minnesota 14, Green Bay 3
Favre-Shiancoe 12 yd TD pass
Drive start: Minnesota 49
Vikings winning the field position battle.  Each team has made a major play and converted to points.  The Vikes' lead proves that it's not what opportunities you have, but what you do with them.

3rd down to start the drive: Favre beating another blitz to Harvin.  That's what I'm afraid of, but when they didn't blitz last time, Favre killed them.

Now Favre's getting hot - to the 25 to Berrian.  He's being smart, not doing too much.  Where was this in OT the 2007 NFC Championship game?

Rice with a shoestring grab at the 12 yard line.  Oh this is like slow death.  So was the throw to Shiancoe.

1st Quarter

3:47 p.m.  Packers' 4th Drive  1:17
Drive start: Green Bay 15
Darn good Ahman Green return gets called back.  Another yellow hanky on Brady Poppinga.  Ah, those Brazilian flagmakers complaining again because they're running out of fabric.

It's time for a long drive, boys.  Quin Johnson should enter a circus with the catch he just made.

3rd down: coverage sack.  Again.  Ugh.

3:38 p.m.  Vikings' 3rd Drive  5:05
Minnesota 7, Green Bay 0
Peterson 1 yd TD run
Drive start: Green Bay 14
Oh no.  Percy Harvin made his presence known.  Best in the NFL.  To the GB 14.  2nd down: Peterson slammed down by Pickett.  Again, they're doing a job on Peterson.

3rd: gets Taylor but NO first down....AAAGH!  Flag!  Anthony Herrera and Johnny Jolly exchanging pleasantries....head butt!!!!!  What head are you using, Jolly?  Thanks, Mike, for taking him off the field.

Peterson bumps outside and Al Harris makes another great open field tackle on AP.

3rd-goal at the 2...AP stuffed inside the 1.  Do you dare go for it if you're Minnesota?  They are.  Kleinsasser comes on to block as extra guy.

4th-goal at the 1....ball loose on AP...but he penetrated the goal line.

3:34 p.m.  Packers' 3rd Drive  7:03
Green Bay 3, Minnesota 0
Crosby 37 yd FG
Drive start: Minnesota 21
First two plays do squat...and Rodgers is sacked near the 19.  Larry said "you've got to take advantage of this situation," and they didn't.  Tisk, tisk.

3:33 p.m.  Vikings' 2nd Drive  7:11
Drive start: Minnesota 39
Favre totally missed the first snap and the Packers recover after a mad scramble!  He was listening to the boos too much and not focusing on the snap.  Well, that's exaggerating.

3:28 p.m.  Packers' 2nd Drive  8:15
Drive start: Green Bay 20
After a blown-up screen pass where Daryn Colledge missed a block of Chad Greenway, an incompletion deep - the second overthrow of the possession.  That's Brett Favre disease.

3:22 p.m.  Vikings' 1st Drive  11:37
Drive start: Minnesota 17
Favre comes on the field: 80% loudest boos you've ever heard, 15% cheers, 5% golf claps, by my estimation.  But the "GO PACK GO" you hear is the loudest I've ever heard.

Packers go into nickel defense.  I don't like that.  Favre killed a no-pass-rush defense last time.

Favre hits Harvin, but Bigby gets him on an open field tackle to force third down.

3rd-5: Favre beats a blitz with a throw to Taylor.  Something tells me Adrian Peterson won't be the focal point of the offense today.

AP is getting destroyed by Packers linebackers on two straight plays.  On 3rd: Tramon Williams breaks up a pass to Berrian and a chorus of cheers rains down.

3:15 p.m.  Packers' 1st Drive  15:00
Drive start: Green Bay 24
Ahman Green takes the kickoff wearing #34.  Weird to see him in Edgar Bennett's #.

Rodgers great start with a smart, safe pass to Grant.  Larry: "Nothing wrong with checking down."  Especially for 12 yards.

Phew...the Packers avoided a possible early turnover on a "forward progress" call that was unreviewable.

3rd and 5...great job to get the ball to Driver wide open for a 20 yard gain.  Rodgers doing the neutron dance in the backfield to buy time.

Ooogh...Rodgers lost the ball near midfield.  Ball just slipped out like a banana out a peel.  Oh well...gotta punt 'em deep into their own territory.

Pregame

3:12 p.m.
Brett Favre, Ryan Longwell both captains today for the Vikings.  Nick Collins, Scott Wells and Spencer Havner - AWESOME - for the Packers.  Who wins the flip?  Packers.  They'll get the ball to start.

3:05 p.m.
It's the intro of the Packers' offensive starters, and the screams for Aaron Rodgers are among the loudest I've ever heard come across a radio from Lambeau.

3:02 p.m.
I think more Packers fans have arrived at Lambeau: "a lot of purple sprinkled in," according to Wayne Larrivee  That doesn't mean 50-50, like Michaels said earlier.

2:50 p.m.
Many Packers Radio Network guys report that Favre seems really loos right now.  That scares me.

2:41 p.m.
From the Associated Press:

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Wide receiver Bernard Berrian is active for the Minnesota Vikings despite a nagging hamstring injury, giving Brett Favre one of his top targets against his former team. As expected, cornerback Antoine Winfield was inactive for the Vikings because of a right foot injury. Tight end Jermichael Finley was inactive for the Packers with a knee injury. Finley caught 6 passes for 128 yards and a touchdown in the Packers' 30-23 loss at Minnesota Oct. 5.

The Packers will be without center Jason Spitz because of a lower back injury, but left tackle Chad Clifton was active despite a nagging right ankle injury and was listed in the starting lineup. A pair of the Packers' midseason veteran signings, offensive lineman Mark Tauscher and running back Ahman Green, were active for Green Bay in reserve roles.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

2:29 p.m.
Aaron Rodgers comes on the field and, as Bill Michaels says, "the place just basically erupted."  Total cheers.

2:25 p.m.
Favre is on the field.  A cacophany of boos is the majority of the sound people there, and on the Packers Radio Network, are hearing.  According to Bill Michaels, some signs say "Favre 4 Ever," some say "traitor."

2:06 p.m.
Bill Michaels of the Packers Radio Network says he's never seen so much purple at Lambeau Field, about a 50-50 crowd at Lambeau.  People are packed around the tunnel waiting for Favre's security guy to come and give word that he's coming.

He has not stepped on the field.  When he does, we'll let you know.

Pregame Story

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Brett Favre will run out of the Lambeau Field tunnel wearing purple, and nobody really knows how Green Bay Packers fans will react.

But if the angry buzz generated by the mere appearance of in-stadium video highlights of Favre and the Vikings during the first few Packers home games is any indication, the once-beloved face of the franchise will be booed. Loudly.

The tempest of emotion leading to Sunday's Vikings-Packers game could make for one of the most awkward homecomings in sports history. Favre, perhaps the league's most emotion-driven player, will try to tune it all out.

"The people that have jumped ship or whatever completely, what can I do?" Favre said. "I'm not going to concern myself with it."

That makes one of us.

Everybody else is ready for some great sports theater.

Joe Montana faced the 49ers as a Chief. Michael Jordan faced the Bulls as a Wizard. Heck, Favre already faced the Packers -- and beat them -- at his new home, the Metrodome, less than a month ago.

But as Favre returns to the scene of his surreal standoff with the Packers' front office last summer, it's hard to imagine a more intense setting.

Favre has been booed before at Lambeau, something that's bound to happen when you're the NFL's career interceptions leader -- even in mild-mannered Green Bay. And that, Favre said, felt "kind of a kick in the stomach."

Bring it on, Vikings defensive end Jared Allen says.

"They might still like Brett, but they're Packer fans," Allen said. "They're going to boo the Minnesota Vikings. It's not going to hurt my feelings. They're not going to make me cry. As a matter of fact, I expect good harsh ripping-on. I want to hear some funny stuff out there."

And while it's only Week 8, the stakes couldn't be much higher for both teams.

With a victory, the Vikings take a huge step toward putting the NFC North out of reach. A Packers win makes the division race tight.

Then there's the snap-judgment factor: If Favre wins, he'll complete a season sweep over his former team and stick it to the man who traded him, Packers general manager Ted Thompson.

But if Favre melts down in a flurry of interceptions and the Packers win behind another strong performance by Aaron Rodgers, it will be seen as a sign Thompson and Packers coach Mike McCarthy knew what they were doing all along.

Neither Favre nor McCarthy spent this week revisiting last year's dispute, which began when Favre suddenly told the team he wanted to come out of retirement last summer -- after asking for, then abruptly turning down, a chance to come back to the team earlier that offseason.

Increasing public tension between Favre and the Packers' front office during training camp in 2008 eventually led to a sit-down meeting between Favre and McCarthy, and McCarthy determined Favre wasn't in the right "mindset" to return.

McCarthy never fully explained what he meant, but did say earlier this year that Favre expressed a desire to play for the Vikings at the time.

Favre instead was traded to the New York Jets, retired again after last season, then unretired again to sign with the Vikings. Favre said this week that it's "probably best that things worked out the way they did," and McCarthy agreed.

"As far as his situation over there, and if he's happy, that's great," McCarthy said. "But going back to that time for everybody, really in my view it has nothing to do with (Sunday's) game."

McCarthy is more concerned with stopping Favre, something the Packers didn't do in their 30-23 loss at the Metrodome Oct. 5.

The Packers held Adrian Peterson to 55 yards on 25 carries, essentially daring Favre to beat them through the air.

Did he ever: Favre was 24 of 31 for 271 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions, and wasn't sacked once.

But the Vikings could be without wide receiver Bernard Berrian because of a left hamstring injury Sunday, and the Packers are playing better on defense.

Safety Atari Bigby is back from a knee injury, improving communication in the secondary. And after struggling with the transition to outside linebacker in Dom Capers' 3-4 defense, Aaron Kampman is playing as a down lineman more often and is putting more pressure on the quarterback.

The Packers gave up a total of three points in back-to-back wins over Detroit and Cleveland, but know they're in for a more significant test Sunday. Defensive lineman Cullen Jenkins said stopping Peterson remains the Packers' No. 1 priority, but they have to get more pressure on Favre.

"Brett's a great quarterback, and given the time, he'll find somebody or he'll make something happen," Jenkins said.

Pass rush pressure wasn't exactly a problem for the Vikings in their first matchup with the Packers. Rodgers was sacked a chinstrap-snapping eight times at the Metrodome, including 4 1-2 by Allen.

Rodgers could welcome back left tackle Chad Clifton, who hasn't played a full game since the season opener because of a recurring right ankle injury. And fellow veteran Mark Tauscher, who recently re-signed with the Packers after rehabbing a serious knee injury from last season, could figure in the mix at right tackle.

Rodgers didn't wilt under pressure against the Vikings, throwing for 384 yards and nearly leading the Packers to a late comeback.

"As far as rattling him, he might have been a little quick getting out of the pocket, but I thought he did a pretty good job holding in there and getting the ball down the field," Allen said. "He still threw for a ton of yards on us, so we have to clean that up."

But for everyone else, the focus will be on Favre.

Running back Ahman Green, a former Favre teammate who recently re-signed with the Packers, said he expects Favre to play the same way in a different uniform.

"I grew up a 49ers fan, seeing Joe Montana in a Chiefs uniform," Green said. "Or seeing Michael Jordan when he came back wearing No. 45. It's a little different. But it's something that you just know inside that athlete, they've still got a little fight left in them, or they wouldn't go back on the field."

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)