Purple pants? Wear them. Vikes shock Cards in OT, 27-24! Vikes, 3-5.

Minnesota Vikings' Kicker Ryan Longwell is congratulated by teammates after kicking an overtime field goal to beat the Arizona Cardinals, 27-24. Helluva come-back win for Brett Favre & Co. and a must-win if the Vikes have any chance of remaining in the playoff hunt. With a 3-5 record and games coming up at Chicago and home against Green Bay, it's gonna be tough for the Vikes to hang in there - unless they play the way they did in the last 4 minutes of regular time against Arizona (and OT).

A few items of note:

1) Brett Favre started his 293 consecutive game, adding to his NFL QB record AND all-purpose player. At this point, I'm confused. I was under the impression that Favre surpassed Jim Marshall's 282 consecutive game streak last year, but it was reported in the paper that Favre just surpassed Bruce Matthews' 292 consecutive streak record. Anyone?

2) It marked only the second time Favre threw for over 400 yards, and his first since December 5, 1993 (402 at Chicago). That span of 16 years, 337 days between 400 yard passing games is the longest in NFL.

3) Favre tied his career record of 36 completions and Favre's 446 passing yards surpassed his career record of 402 passing.

4) The Vikings defense had 6 sacks coming into Sunday’s game and they recorded 6 against the Cardinals.

5) I believe this was Favre's 46th 4th quarter comeback win. With 4:39 left in the game, Favre led the drive with Adrian Peterson scoring a TD with 3:35 left, and then Favre hitting Viscante Shiancoe in for another TD with 27 seconds left in regulation.

6) Sunday was the biggest comeback victory in Minnesota team history. It was the first time the Vikings had won a game after trailing by 14 or more points with less than four minutes to play. And it's been seven years since anyone in the NFL has accomplished that feat.

7) And yes, the Vikings should continue to wear the purple pants and Bernard Berrian finally earned his multi-million dollar paycheck, connecting for 89 yards on 9 Favre passes.

Click on READ MORE! for more pics. KILL THE BEARS next week! I wanna see blood! SKOL FAVRE! SKOL VIKINGS! (And please play 4 quarters instead of 4 minutes in the 4th quarter.)

Shiancoe and Favre connect on a 25-yard TD pass to tie the game.

Percy Harvin.

Favre.

AP.

Coach Brad Childress is...well, not liked right now.

Bernard Berrian. Yes, BB...continue to wear those ugly, yellow shoes!

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Vikes lose to Cardinals. Vikes, 10-2.

No defense. No pressure on Kurt Warner. No running game by us. And the Vikes couldn't convert 3rd downs. NEXT WEEK: Bengals (9-3) @ Vikes (10-2). Could be a tough game.

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Super Bowl 43. Good game, a felon and SB ads.

Not caring about either team, I picked Pittsburgh just to make our SB party interesting. So I guess I'm a winner.

1st quarter zipped by quicker than most I've watched. Great game. As I pointed out a couple posts below, I felt Steeler James Harrison should've got the boot after his unsportsmanlike penalty in the 4th quarter. He's a felon-in-the-making.

SB ads? Not the quality we're used to seeing. Blame that on our economy.

My favorite ads were Doritos Sno Globe, Etrade babies, Careerbuilder.com and Hulu (with Alec Baldwin). You can see all the commercials here. The ad "Sobe: Dancers", was done before. Season 3 of Saturday Night Live, Gary Weis did a short film called, "Swan Lake Ballet". And the Jack-in-the-Box ad where spokesperson "Jack" gets hit by a car, I thought, was inappropriate. Here's an article on what appears to be "Jack's" demise. Go Daddy - who was the actress who played "Miss Schmidt" in the shower ad? I used to work for Go Daddy CEO and Founder, Bob Parsons when he owned Parsons Technology in Hiawatha, Iowa. Big supporter of the arts.

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"Yah...but it was the Arizona Cardinals."

- response by much of the media, fans of other teams and people I know to the New York Jets beating the Arizona Cardinals on Sept. 28th, 56-35. Brett Favre threw 6 TDs in that game - his highest.

Arizona beat the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship game at Arizona to advance to this year's Super Bowl.

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Arizona Cardinals who?

Shortly after my blog post of the New York Jets' pounding of the Arizona Cardinals back in November, I wrote NFL Dogs or "Yeh...but Look Who They've Played." for Bleacher Report.

I wrote this article in response to those NFL fans and sports commentators who inevitably attempt to burst the bubble of a team's victory over another team by using the asinine excuse - "well look who they played."

Now, in the above case, the "dog" Arizona Cardinals are headed to the NFC Championship game this weekend. Some dog, huh?

Idiots.

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26-12 Jets Over Bengals. Jets 3-2 / Packers 3-3.

Thomas Jones ran for two TDs and caught a Brett Favre pass for his 3rd TD of the game in what was a sort of sloppy offensive showing by the Jets (Favre had two INTs and one fumble that resulted in a Bengal TD). But honestly, it was the perfect scenario for the Jets' defense to make a stand and show they can play four quarters consistently. The Bengals' backs were held to under a 100 yards, as were the Bengals' receiving corp, including Chad Oocho Dicko, who was not a factor in the game.

Brett did complete 25 of 33 passes for 189 yards and a touchdown, giving him his highest percentage completion of the five Jets' games he played.

"There were some throws that were in tight coverage, but you can't be happy about that one week and then be mad about it the other week," Coach Eric Mangini said, "Nobody is ever happy about picks. On the flip side, he makes a bunch of tremendous throws into tight coverage and that makes him difficult to defend," said Jets head coach Eric Mangini. "You want to go through the best decision-making process possible. He’s made a ton of decisions and a ton of them have been really, really good."

"It wasn’t our best performance, but it was a win and we did some good things. I give them a lot of credit," Favre said. "They took Dallas to the wire, they took the Giants to the wire, and they took us to the wire. We had one of those games. I don’t believe in ugly wins. I believe a win is a win and that one felt as good as any win I’ve been a part of in recent memory," Favre said. "I believe a win is a win." Someone asked Brett about his lower TD count this week as compared to the 6 TDs he threw against the Cardinals two weeks ago. Brett stoically commented he doesn't play for stats - he plays for wins.

NEXT WEEK: Jets 3-2 at Oakland 1-4.

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This Sunday. Jets(2-2) versus Bengals (0-5).

At home in the Meadowlands. Favre will be making his 258th straight start as a QB. 1st all-time for quarterbacks and 2nd all-time...period.

Jets had a bye last week. Wonder after that 6 TD game against Arizona, if Brett the Jet's got any fuel left in the tank to unleash a little more hell on the hapless Bengals. I say "hapless" only because of their 0-5 start...hey - any given Sunday, right?

Do not let your guard down, Jets. No mercy, Brett. Unleash hell. And again, happy birthday, you old fart.

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Open blog post to idiots: Duhhhhhhhh!

A Newsday.com poll surveyed online readers yesterday on the performance of the New York Jets yesterday in their drubbing of the Arizona Cardinals, 56-35. Readers were asked to rate the Jets' offensive, defense and special teams with letter grades of A, B, C, D or F.

At 4:43 pm PST, 1344 responded. 2 people (.o1%) rated the Jets' offense unit an "F". Now do you see why I get angry easily?

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"The Unleashing of Hell". Favre and Gang Green have a record day in the Meadowlands; Jets, 56 - Cards, 35. Jets, 2-2 / Packers, 2-2.

Sore ankle. Schmore Ankle. We said it - me, my brother, Favre fans and Jets' fans. Let Favre unleash hell and we'll pull out a victory. Here, Brett and Coles are celebrating one of Coles' 3 TDs . It's about time they both got on the same page. Cotchery had 2 TDs as well.

(WAIT! There's more...)

The 56 points scored by the Jets is the second most in team history; the Jets recorded a 62-28 win over the Buccaneers during the 1985 season. The Jets scored 34 points in the second quarter, a team record for points scored in any quarter (previous high was 30 points in memorable Monday night win over Dolphins in 2000 season). The all-time quarter record is GB over the Lions in 1945 - 41 pts. in one quarter.

I swear Brett looks like Mark Wahlberg here. Or Mark looks like him.

Brett and his QB coach. What do you suppose this young punk (I say that endearingly) of a coach is saying to Favre - other than, "Nice job on the 6 TDs, Brett."?

Brett Favre threw at least four touchdowns in a game for the 20th time in his career. Favre trails Dan Marino by one for most all-time four-TD passing games. Favre also threw three touchdown passes in the second quarter. The last time he threw three touchdowns in a quarter was on Dec. 14, 2003 at San Diego (fourth quarter). Favre has passed for three touchdowns in a quarter five times in his career, with four of those coming in the second quarter.

Fox Sports chose Favre as the FedEx Performance of the Day, yet chose Drew Brees as the QB Stud of the Day. Brees 363 yards, 3 TDs, 1INT. Favre 289 yards, 6 TDS, 1INT. Do the math, Fox. Brett will surely be be nominated then selected FedEx Air Player of the Week, having received the FedEx Air Player of the Year award last year after winning it 5 times throughout the regular season.

Minutia. minutia and more minutia!

- At the 1/4 mark in the regular season, Brett is ranked #1 in TDs, #1 in QB rating and #2 in completion %.

- Until yesterday, the Cardinals defense had been pretty stout. No 100 yd. rushers or 200 yd. passers.

- Blown calls. Hey, happens every week. Here were 3 against the Jets that were questionable: a) Over the back call on Coles - no call and should've been, b) Offsides on defense – Favre thought he had a free play when the defensive lineman jumped the line of scrimmage and instead Favre through his only INT. (the guy WAS offsides), and c) Roughing the kicker – according to the announcers you can't have roughing the AZ kicker if the AZ kicker's teammate pushes a Jet into the kicker. So instead of a field goal, it was first and goal and AZ scored a TD.

Don't rest on your laurels, Gang Green. Favre won't.

NEXT WEEK: Bye

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Brett Favre = 6 TDs!! Man, oh man! Jets - 56, Cardinals - 35; Jets, 2-2 / Packers, 2-2

Let me gather my notes on Brett the Jet and the rest of the Gang Green, folks. This was a doozy. Yeeeehawww!

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