Report: Favre not likely to be back

Published 8:53 pm Monday, January 25, 2010

The corpse that was the Minnesota Vikings’ 2009 season hadn’t even had time to become cold late Sunday night when the first report surfaced that Brett Favre had said he was “highly unlikely” to come back for another year.

The information provided by ESPN promised to be the first of many Favre-related nuggets that emerge in the coming weeks and perhaps months as the quarterback ponders whether to return for a 20th NFL season and second with the Vikings. The most important thing is to take every report with a grain of salt.

Favre, 40, retired following the 2007 season and again last February, only to change his mind on both occasions before missing one regular-season game.