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• Brett Favre thinks Aaron Rodgers has ‘a lot of juice left’ as Jets QB faces uncertain future

Brett Favre is one of the only people who could identify with Aaron Rodgers, for better or worse....2025
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• Baker Mayfield – The Modern-Day Gunslinger

There was once a gunslinger who carved out a Hall of Fame NFL career by not being afraid to take risks, playing through various ailments, and doing whatever it took to win games and ignite his team. Across his 20 years in the league, Brett Favre set many passing records upon his retirement, starting...2025
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• Why Marcus Freeman making history as a Black and Asian head coach matters

Photo by Michael Pimentel/ISI Photos/Getty Images The first Black head coach to make a national title game means so much more than what Brett Favre will try to tell you. As Notre Dame football players tossed oranges and waved to the crowd after their thrilling 27-24 win over Penn State, Fighting Irish head coach Marcus Freeman was asked a question by ESPN’s Molly McGrath. The game between ...2025
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• Aaron Jones and Minnesota’s Flat Circle

Aaron Jones isn’t Brett Favre. Still, the former Green Bay Packers running back is a turncoat who’s become beloved in the Minnesota Vikings locker room for his upbeat personality and relentless play. Packers fans loved Jones, and Jones assured them that the feeling was mutual before Minnesota’s Week 4 game in Lambeau. However, he’s quickly become comfortable in purple....2025
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• Jets QB Rodgers joins prestigious 500 TD club
Aaron Rodgers joined Tom Brady (649), Drew Brees (571), Peyton Manning (539) and Brett Favre (508) as the only QBs to throw for 500 career TDs....2025
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• Vikings Links: It’s An Exciting Time To Be A Vikings Fan!

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Getty Images Meaningful football late in the season plus playoffs is great! It is hard to wait for this game but what can you do? I like to do other things so that I am not thinking about the game too much. I really am not smart enough to talk about the X’s and O’s with any conviction or authority. So, I watch college football in search of future Vikings and I do ...2025
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• Big Blue View mailbag: The J.J. McCarthy edition

The mail’s here! Phillip Grubler asks: If the Giants aren’t totally sold on either of the QBs in this year’s class, at least not enough to expend draft capital to move up, can you envision a trade with Minnesota for McCarthy? I imagine the Vikings would like to resign Darnold and keep building around him after the year they’ve had. McCarthy’s value isn’t going to rise if he’s on the bench and team...2025
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• The Linc - Will Josh Sweat’s resurgence lead to him staying in Philly?

Photo by Ric Tapia/Getty Images Philadelphia Eagles news and links for 11/27/24. Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles links ... Eagles film review: Josh Sweat is having a bounce-back season - PhillyVoiceIn 2024, the Eagles have done a much better job of moderating Sweat’s snaps, as he is averaging just 39 snaps per game, with a high single-game snap total of 45 snaps. A side-by-side compar...2024
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• Aaron Rodgers should go full Brett Favre and sign with the Vikings

Photo by Rob Tringali/SportsChrome/Getty Images It’s time for a little bit of history repeating. Aaron Rodgers and the Jets are destined to break up, which shouldn’t surprise anyone. The organization went all-in on building a team designed to cater to Rodgers, hoping a tailor-made offense and already stout defense could bring them the quick-hit Super Bowl the organization coveted, making t...2024
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• Why Matthew Stafford is not tradeable

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Even if the Rams wanted to trade Matthew Stafford, it doesn’t make much sense in the current market The Los Angeles Rams may hate money. I don’t think they hate money so much that they would trade Matthew Stafford during the 2024 season, however. Despite a lot of perfectly reasonable people coming up with perfectly reasonable reasons for the Rams to ...2024
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• Aaron Rodgers is mid, and this Jets experiment is a failure

Photo by Mario Hommes/DeFodi Images via Getty Images Plus more winners and losers from Week 5 in the NFL. Aaron Rodgers was supposed to be the missing piece to the puzzle. The all-in gambit by the Jets to follow in the footsteps of Tom Brady in Tampa and Matthew Stafford on the Rams to lift the Jets out of mediocrity to bring a Super Bowl ring to the Jets. We’re now five weeks in and it’s ...2024
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• Barry’s Thoughts & Jots: From Brett Favre to Deshaun Watson to Jerry Jones

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Things on my mind Friday of Week 4 is upon us with the Cleveland Browns and Las Vegas Raiders looking to right their collective ships. Injuries are a big storyline in the game with major names on both sides on the injury report Thursday. There are so many other things going on in and around football as well as some other sports including the Cleveland Gua...2024
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• Aaron Rodgers wasn’t the shot in the arm the Jets hoped for

Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images Rodgers’ first full game on the Jets was worse than Brett Favre’s in 2008. Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre are the same guy from different generations. Two beloved Packers quarterbacks, each with on-again, off-again flirtations with retirement, unable to either walk away from football or willingly hand over control to a young guy on the bench. Both s...2024
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• It’s Okay To Be Excited About J.J. McCarthy

Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports No, seriously, it’s fine On Saturday afternoon, nearly ten years to the day that the last quarterback the Minnesota Vikings used a first-round draft choice on made his rookie debut, Vikings fans got to witness the first snaps for the young man that fans of the purple hope will carry this franchise into the future. After ceding the first series to veteran Sam Da...2024
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• The Vikings are on a Quest for the Holy Grail of Professional Football- Now They Must Choose Wisely

Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images, The right choice will bring life to the franchise, but a poor one will take it away Now that the Kirk Cousins drama has played out with Cousins taking the guaranteed money and heading south to Atlanta, the focus moves to the draft and selecting a new franchise quarterback. The Vikings front office and coaching staff have been preparing and doing the...2024
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• Barry’s Thoughts & Jots: From Brett Favre to Deshaun Watson to Jerry Jones
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• DBN’s Exclusive interview with Browns legend Joe Thomas before he enters Hall of Fame
Julie Vennitti Botos / USA TODAY NETWORK 25 questions with the newest Browns Hall of Famer Joe Thomas There are 17 Cleveland Browns players inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In August, that number goes to 18 as offensive tackle Joe Thomas becomes part of the 2023 HOF class. Cleveland now has the eighth most players of any franchise inducted into the Hall. Thomas...2023
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"Photo by Michael Pimentel/ISI Photos/Getty Images The first Black head coach to make a national title game means so much more than what Brett Favre will try to tell you."

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"Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre announced during a congressional hearing on Tuesday that he recently was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease."

2023
"Aaron Rodgers recently talked about how he doesn’t want to follow in Brett Favre’s footsteps, retiring and then changing his mind about it later."

2022
"Ben Roethlisberger passes Joe Montana, Brett Favre in career playoff passing yards during wild card loss"

2021
"Aaron Rodgers surpasses Brett Favre for Packers all-time touchdown record"

2020
"Brett Favre thinks Colin Kaepernick will reach a "hero status" in football similar to Pat Tillman."

2019
"Brett Favre hold Brees and Payton in high regard"

2018
"BRADY IS GOOD AT 40 Brady already has the most passing yards (4,577) and the most wins in a single season by a quarterback at the age of 40, and his 13 wins overall at the age of 40 are now tied with Brett Favre for the most wins by a quarterback overall at the age of 40."

2017
"Brett Favre on the Packers: 'They will be in the Super Bowl'"

2016
"Brett Favre earns Hall of Fame induction on first ballot"

2015
"Manning's latest victory, a 29-10 win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, puts him at 186 wins for his epic career, matching Brett Favre for the most wins by a QB in league history."

2014
"The long-awaited return of former Green Bay Packers great Brett Favre to Green Bay will be realized Monday afternoon when Favre attends a tribute to Hall of Famer Bart Starr that will benefit a boys ranch, according to sources."

• Vikings Links: It’s An Exciting Time To Be A Vikings Fan!
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• Big Blue View mailbag: The J.J. McCarthy edition
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• The Linc - Will Josh Sweat’s resurgence lead to him staying in Philly?
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• Aaron Rodgers should go full Brett Favre and sign with the Vikings
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• 17 players who belong in the 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame class before Eli Manning

Photo by: George Gojkovich/Getty Images Eli Manning doesn’t deserve to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer in 2025 “Eli Manning is a first-ballot Hall of Famer!” No. He is not. On Wednesday, the Pro Football Hall of Fame released its list of the 25 modern era semifinalists for the class of 2025. I recently led a group of Hall analysts and historians in building our own list of 50, published at...2024
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• Chuck Foreman and Jim Marshall Advance in Senior Hall of Fame Selection Committee Vote

Set Number: X21107 Foreman’s case has been neglected for decades; Marshall getting yet another look Earlier this month, former Minnesota Vikings Chuck Foreman and Jim Marshall were chosen among a group of 182 senior nominees for selection into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Both made the initial cut from 182 to 60 senior candidates earlier this month. And yesterday, both of them advanced...2024
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• Mike Holmgren, Chuck Knox among 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame candidates

SetNumber: X75002 TK1 Ex-Seattle Seahawks coaches make up two of twelve HoF coaching candidates. On Thursday, the Pro Football Hall of Fame Coach Blue Ribbon Committee named former Seattle Seahawks coaches Mike Holmgren and Chuck Knox as two of twelve coaching candidates for the 2025 class. Through a series of eliminations over the next several weeks, the list of 12 coaches will be chipped...2024
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• Why Matthew Stafford is not tradeable
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• Barry’s Thoughts & Jots: From Brett Favre to Deshaun Watson to Jerry Jones
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• Vikings Beat 49ers in Week 2, 23-17: The Average Fan’s Reaction

Brad Rempel-Imagn Images Here’s what the average fan, deputy editor Brandon Warne, saw in Week 2 Chances are, if you’ve ever read anything I’ve written, it was about baseball. I’ve been working behind the scenes at Daily Norseman for a couple of months now, and am ready to start writing more than just the open thread every few days. But I realize my limitations. Football is my second love,...2024
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• It Truly Is DeSAMber in Minnesota

Photo by Christopher Mast/Getty Images The Vikings’ quarterback has been a revelation If you will, think back to the ugly victory that the Minnesota Vikings had over the Jacksonville Jaguars the day before Veterans Day. Sam Darnold had been struggling a bit up to that point, following a loss to the Los Angeles Rams and an up-and-down performance over the Indianapolis Colts, but his season ...2024
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• The Linc - Will Josh Sweat’s resurgence lead to him staying in Philly?
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• Chuck Foreman and Jim Marshall Advance in Senior Hall of Fame Selection Committee Vote
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• Aaron Rodgers is mid, and this Jets experiment is a failure
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• Barry’s Thoughts & Jots: From Brett Favre to Deshaun Watson to Jerry Jones
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• Vikings Beat 49ers in Week 2, 23-17: The Average Fan’s Reaction
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• The Vikings are on a Quest for the Holy Grail of Professional Football- Now They Must Choose Wisely
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• Is Eli Manning a first-ballot Hall of Famer?

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images BBV staff answers that question, with some help from Pro Football Hall of Fame voter Gary Myers Is former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning a first-ballot Hall of Famer? Manning is eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame for the first time in 2025, and as long-time NFL columnist and Hall of Fame voter Gary Myers tells us in the YouTube video below, Manni...2024
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• Ranking Tua Tagovailoa Against the Remaining Playoff Quarterbacks

Photo by Kara Durrette/Getty Images Does Tua belong in the same conversation as the remaining playoff quarterbacks? The Miami Dolphins season has come to an end, but the looming question of quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s contract extension is ever-present. You’ll see arguments on both sides, and the detractors will point to Tua and the Dolphins lack of playoff wins and how two quarterbacks ...2024
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• Vikings Beat 49ers in Week 2, 23-17: The Average Fan’s Reaction
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• The Vikings are on a Quest for the Holy Grail of Professional Football- Now They Must Choose Wisely
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• Russ is a Steeler, how do you feel?

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports Russell Wilson signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers, giving him one more chance to regain some of his former success. Russell Wilson now has his third NFL team. That’s a bit of a crazy sentence for someone who was once dubbed Mr. Unlimited, for one who played every single game for his first nine seasons. Wilson was a Seattle Seahawks Pro Bowl quarterback f...2024
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• Is Eli Manning a first-ballot Hall of Famer?
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• Lamar Jackson wins 2023 League MVP; one first-place vote shy of winning unanimous MVP twice

Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports For the second time in Lamar Jackson’s career, he wins the NFL’s most prestigious individual accolade Lamar Jackson has done it again. Four years after becoming the second-ever unanimous NFL league MVP and the immediate season after signing his monster contract extension, Jackson hoists his second MVP award for his production in the 2023 season. He was one v...2024
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• Who should start as Giants’ quarterback in 2024?

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Drafting a QB is one piece of the puzzle, but not the only one. Job 1 for New York Giants GM Joe Schoen this offseason is to solidify the quarterback position. Unfortunately, it won’t be possible to do that before the season starts. Schoen probably thought he’d already done it by signing Daniel Jones to a four-year contract with an out after two years, Tyrod...2024
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• Winners & Losers: Is this beginning of the end for Matthew Stafford?

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Rams’ franchise quarterback has been woeful over the last two weeks Things couldn’t have gotten any uglier on Sunday afternoon for the Los Angeles Rams as they fell to the Dallas Cowboys 43-20 in Week 8. LA will fall to 3-5 on the season and have lost nearly all momentum following their encouraging performances from early in the season. The Los Angeles ...2023
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• Thoughts & Jots: From Jordan Love to the Elves to Bill Belichick

Things on my mind 1. Does it seem like the first weekend of games in the NFL is a bit sloppy? Lots of penalties, fumbles, dropped passes, missed tackles, passes into the turf, missed assignments, and a lack of offensive imagination. Perhaps this is due to the fact that hardly any starters play in the preseason. This period of exhibition games is important to every coaching staff so that they know...2023
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• DBN’s Exclusive interview with Browns legend Joe Thomas before he enters Hall of Fame
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• Peyton Manning Ties Brett Favre's Record for Most Wins by a QB with 186
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• Brett Favre can't say enough about Packers fans
Selling out stadium for ceremony is ultimate tribute in his eyes...2015
• Brett Favre can't say enough about Packers fans
Selling out stadium for ceremony is ultimate tribute in his eyes...2015
• Brett Favre makes retirement date at Lambeau official
Legendary quarterback Brett Favre, who made his return to Wisconsin last year for a ceremony honoring Packers icon Bart Starr, was looking at 2015 as the target year for his dramatic homecoming....2015
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• Sources: Favre visits Green Bay to honor Starr
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• Brett Favre earns Hall of Fame induction on first ballot
Iconic QB becomes 24th Packers HOFer, fifth to be elected in first year of eligibility...2016
• Packers Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre recognized
Former Packers QB Brett Favre had his retired jersey #4 unveiled on the Lambeau Field facade on Thanksgiving night. Packers legend Bart Starr returned to the stadium to join the celebration. Brett ......2015
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• Aaron Rodgers Not Thinking Retirement, Says He Wants to Play for 8 More Years
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• The Peyton Hillis Story: From Madden Cover to Outside Looking In
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• Mike Tanier's Monday Morning Hangover: How to Interview a Head Coach Candidate
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• Brady vs. Manning Is Not Complicated: Brady Is Better
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• Mike Tanier's Monday Morning Hangover: Shattered Records and Missing Weapons
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• NFL Week 7 Picks: Cowboys Are Surging, but Broncos Are Leading the Polls
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• Baker Mayfield – The Modern-Day Gunslinger
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• Why Marcus Freeman making history as a Black and Asian head coach matters
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• Aaron Rodgers should go full Brett Favre and sign with the Vikings
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• 17 players who belong in the 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame class before Eli Manning
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• Chuck Foreman and Jim Marshall Advance in Senior Hall of Fame Selection Committee Vote
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• Mike Holmgren, Chuck Knox among 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame candidates
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• Aaron Rodgers is mid, and this Jets experiment is a failure
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• Why Matthew Stafford is not tradeable
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• Journalist who broke Brett Favre welfare scam story faces jail in Mississippi

Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Anne Wolfe won a Pulitzer, now she’s fighting to stay out of jail. Anne Wolfe of Mississippi Today won a Pulitzer Prize for her investigative journalism that implicated former Mississippi governor Phil Bryant and quarterback Brett Favre (among others) in a welfare scandal that allegedly re-routed $77 million of state funds intended for the state’s poores...2024
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• Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre says he has Parkinson's disease

Brett Favre revealed he's has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease during his testimony to a congressional committee about a welfare misspending scandal in Mississippi....2024
• NFL decides not to FLEX Dolphins-Ravens Week 17 Matchup to Primetime

Photo by Randy Litzinger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Miami Dolphins and Baltimore Ravens will square off with their eyes set on the No.1 spot in the AFC in Week 17, but the game won’t be flexed to primetime, the NFL announced a short time ago. We all remember where we were last season when the Miami Dolphins and Baltimore Ravens matched up in Week 2. Miami made an improbable four...2023
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• Is Matthew Stafford a Hall of Famer?

Is Matthew Stafford an NFL Hall of Fame candidate? | Photo by Brandon Sloter/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images His numbers say yes, but is that enough? It’s apparent that the Los Angeles Rams offense is sputtering and with that comes deserved scrutiny. Since the NFL is a quarterback-driven league, the L.A. much of the white-hot light is focused on Matthew Stafford. Is he declining? Are two...2023
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• The Detroit Lions are finally taking NFC North, and everyone else is playing for second

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images After three long decades, the Lions are finally running the NFC North The NFC Central got a new name when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers moved out of the division in 2002. The newly minted NFC North would include four old rivals — the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, and Detroit Lions — but the first two decades of the division has lacked th...2023
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• Marshawn Lynch is starring in a queer ‘American Pie’ style comedy from the makers of ‘Cocaine Bear’
Yes, this is real — and it’s SPECTACULAR. We learned earlier this year that Marshawn Lynch would be making his Hollywood debut, but even knowing that we weren’t ready for what happened on Tuesday when Lynch dropped the trailer for Bottoms. Peep the trailer… yo boi done made it to the big screen. #BottomsMovie in theaters August 25th + some mo’ cities September 1st. pic.twitter.com/ALKPt4i7wS— M...2023
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• Brett Favre Mississippi welfare scandal: Hall of Fame QB withdraws defamation lawsuit against Pat McAfee

Favre withdrew his lawsuit given that McAfee lacked personal knowledge into his welfare scandal...2023
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• Cowboys QB Dak Prescott is officially the longest-tenured starting quarterback in the NFL
Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images Life moves fast in the NFL. It finally happened. The Green Bay Packers and New York Jets agreed to a trade involving quarterback Aaron Rodgers on Monday. Dallas is now over being tormented by Aaron Rodgers in a yellow helmet. As the Cowboys host the Jets in 2023, they will still see Rodgers at least one more time, two if the teams meet in the Super B...2023
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• Former WWE wrestler Ted DiBiase Jr. charged in Mississippi welfare scandal involving NFL legend Brett Favre

DiBiase allegedly used money intended for low-income families on a vehicle and boat, among other expenditures...2023