Cracked crib did not prevent Favre from starting against Texans

Before Monday night’s game against the Houston Texans, the Minnesota Vikings quarter back Brett Favre, who was signed by the team on Aug. 18 with a $25 million deal, told reporters that he might have a cracked rib. However, he still started the game without wearing any kind of special padding.

Favre has not received any official diagnosis, but he said that he felt discomfort while taking a deep breath. And he did not plan to wear a special padding because he considered it unnecessary since the damage was done. Whatever, apparently the damage did not affect his performance during the game and it did not look like that Favre was in pain when he handed off to Adrian Peterson on the first play of the game.

I believe it was not serious at all, because there was no signal showing that the team would change the plan to have Favre playing the entire first half against the Texans. His name was not on the injury report and the injury had not been mentioned by any player of the team except Favre himself before the game.

Vikings QB Rosenfels won the starting job

On Friday night’s preseason opener, it was Sage Rosenfels who started the game for the Minnesota Vikings against the Indianapolis Colts, meaning that he won the competition with Tarvaris Jackson for the starting job.

Before Rosenfels was signed by the Vikings in a trade with the Houston Texans, he started five games for the Texans last season. And Jackson started for the Vikings at the end of last season. He helped the team win the NFC North and led in the wild-card loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

It had been uncertain for months whether Rosenfels or Jackson would have chance to have the starting job as the Vikings was chasing Brett Favre. After the former Green Bay Packers quarterback decided to remain retired and not to put on vikings jersey, the competition between the two again became the focus on the Vikings.