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Holy cow.  ...not only does he physically look old, but his body language and mannerisms just show that he is tired.  I don't know if he's just out of shape or what.

You ain't kidding. He looked like a walking corpse. Terrible.

Brett Farve is now the first and only grandfather to have played a game in the NFL.

Is that true?  I don't believe it.

You'd think that there'd be some guy who got a girl pregnant when he was 15 or 16, then joined the NFL and his kid had a kid at 15 or 16 -- making the player only 30-32.

He's the only grandfather "currently" playing in the NFL. The NFL says it is unable to tell how many grandfathers have been on active rosters in the past.

I would think, as old as some punters/kickers get before retiring, that surely one of those guys had done the grandfather thing while active at some point in the past.

They said that several months ago, that they were unable to deterimine if there had ever been a grandfather on an active roster.  Since then several reports have gone digging looking to see if they could find one and have came up empty, and nobody has came forward and said, that they were one or that their dad was.  Or a team saying we had one back in XXXX. So I am going with the idea that in fact there hasn't been one.  At least not one since the merger. 

Didn't George Blanda play until he was close to 50? I'm sure he was a grandfather.

If you feel comfortable hanging your hat on speculation, no problema...but the only "conclusion" that has been reached is that he's the only grandfather "currently" in the NFL.

He played until he was 48.  Various source have conflicting information regarding how many children he has.  None mention when his first gradchild was born or if he even has grandchildren. 

He is still alive. If he was a grandfather while playing in the NFL some reporter would have interviewed him as part of a fluff piece on Farve becoming one. 

Objection...counsel is making assumptions here.  ;)

PS...you know the "v" actually comes before the "r" in "Favre," right?

I will reform my statement:

Brett Favre is the only man that anyone is aware of that has ever played an NFL game as a grandfather.  

In fact he may not be the only grandfather currently playing in the NFL.  It is entirely possible that another NFL player has a child he is unaware of or in which there was a secret payoff regarding child support who in fact has a child.  Or an NFL player may have fathered a child who has an illegitimate child we are unaware of. 

Brett looks like an injury waiting to happen out there.  I'd be amazed if he made it past week 6 before he misses some time.

Last night, I bet the Vikes would have been better off with Tarvaris Jackson starting.  At best, Favre and his receivers looked out of synch.

Regardless of the situation, this can never be a true sentence... ;)

maybe not tavaris .. but sage would have done better i think

^^^ Possibly...I just couldn't get the words "better with Tarvaris Jackson..." to go down without triggering my reality gag reflex.

LOL

Mostly it's an indictment of Brett Favre. ;D

Favre certainly was rusty, no question. I was fortunate enough NOT to catch any of his early games last year, so I don't really have a baseline for comparison. I will say, however, that he started out with Cleveland and Detroit last year... that's about as different from the defending champs as you can get.

^^^ Minnesota had a powder puff schedule last year, no such luck this year.  If you go by ESPN's current rankings of the teams, Minnesota has the 10th toughest schedule this year whereas if you go by the final rankings of last year they had the 3rd easiest.

If your going to cacth the vikings you better get them early. The last 8 games they could easlily go 7-1.