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Sunday marks the return of Brett Favre to Green Bay as a member of the arch-rival Vikings ... GREEN BAY - Emotions will be running at an all-time high here at Lambeau Field on Sunday with the return of Brett Favre .

When Round 1 of the Minnesota-Green Bay border series went to Minnesota on Oct. 5 the Vikings had the luxury of lining up with all 22 of their preferred starters.

Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Bernard Berrian returned to practice on a limited basis Thursday after sitting out on Wednesday, while wide receiver Percy Harvin sat out due to illness.Berrian injured his hamstring in Sunday's loss to Pittsburgh after catching two passes for 18 yards.

What are the chances the Steelers hand the Vikings their first loss of the season? Jenny Dell tells you in the AccuScore Report Tags: NFL , Minnesota Vikings , Pittsburgh Steelers Countdown Daily AccuScore Report:MIN-PIT Brett Favre is the league's best active quarterback for fourth-quarter comebacks with 41.

Minnesota Vikings cornerback Antoine Winfield is doing everything he can to get his injured right foot ready to go for an important divisional game at Green Bay on Sunday.

The Minnesota Vikings have three starters fighting injuries: Wide receiver Bernard Berrian, middle linebacker E.J. Henderson and cornerback Antoine Winfield.

When Vikings rookie cornerback Asher Allen went back and looked at the film of his performance Sunday at Pittsburgh, one thing stood out.

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The Vikings and Steelers enter their Week 7 matchup with reputations for playing strong defense, but how Brett Favre and Ben Roethlisberger handle facing these defenses will be the story.

Vikings Pro Bowl cornerback Antoine Winfield has a fractured right foot and the team is hopeful he can return to action within a month.

Strong safety Troy Polamalu will start, as expected, for the Steelers today against the Minnesota Vikings at Heinz Field.

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Minnesota Vikings Pro Bowl cornerback Antoine Winfield will miss Sunday's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers and is expected to miss four to six weeks with a foot injury, NFL sources told ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen.

The Vikings did not make any moves Tuesday afternoon as the NFL's trading deadline passed, something that wasn't a surprise given the usual lack of activity around the league.

Sidney Rice, Vikings: The ninth-best receiving day in team history was full of important catches that set up great scoring chances.

Steelers safety Troy Polamalu has returned to practice after sitting out two days to rest his still-healing left knee.

Last update: October 19, 2009 - 10:15 AM We have a ritual when it comes to big field goals from opposing teams: wait to see which spot on the field it is coming on, watch the kicker line up, visualize them missing a specific way and then hope that it happens .

Images courtesy of deelovely_67 , Wiki , SteelCityHobbies Mike Tomlin, former Viking defensive coordinator and present head coach of the defending champ Steelers, is 18-4 at home since getting plucked by Pittsburgh brass as a 34-year-old assistant.

There comes a time when you just have to pass out the asbestos helmets and hope no one's hair catches fire.

The chemistry between Brett Favre and Sidney Rice appears to be coming along nicely, considering it produced two of the biggest plays in Sunday's 33-31 victory over the Baltimore Ravens at the Metrodome.

An embarrassing final period. An epic near-collapse. A defensive meltdown worse than any other in the Brad Childress era.

The Redskins finally get to play an opponent with something other than a bagel in the victory column.

Along with many other fans of the Vikings this past Sunday, I watched as Joe Flacco lit up a terrible defense play after play.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Minnesota Vikings Pro Bowl cornerback Antoine Winfield did not practice on Wednesday because of a sprained right foot.

On Monday, after watching film of the previous day's 33-31 victory over the Baltimore Ravens , many of the Vikings ' defensive players left the meeting room with slumped shoulders.

The Vikings may be in big trouble against the Steelers without Antoine Winfield.

Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert After Minnesota's 33-31 victory Sunday over Baltimore, here are three indisputable facts I feel relatively sure about: In trying to convey the chance nature of this victory, I glossed over the career-changing performance of receiver Sidney Rice .

Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert Here's the final ruling on Minnesota cornerback Antoine Winfield : sprained right foot.

As great as Brett Favre was Sunday, the Minnesota Vikings quarterback was pretty sure he wasn't good enough.

FBNVikings-Winfield,0208 Vikings CB Antoine Winfield leaves with injury Eds: APNewsNow.

The NFL is a film-driven society. Last week we learned of how Brett Favre spends countless hours, even on his day off, staring at game films.

Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert We've had a busy multimedia day here on the NFC North blog.

Championship teams win this kind of game. Championship teams don't allow themselves to get lulled into a trap.

These Midwestern states of Wisconsin and Minnesota have much in common, including an intense dislike of each other's football teams.

What a game! It truly was an intense game that was filled with great plays by both offenses.

Here's the tale of the tape from the Packers' 30-23 loss on Monday at Minnesota: Missed opportunities With all due respect to CB Charles Woodson, Dom Capers' pressure-light defensive game plan might have put the Packers in position to win if not for a series of individual slip-ups in coverage.

Brett Favre, Vikings: He downplayed the game all week but threw three touchdown passes against his former team.

Vikings defensive end Jared Allen was involved in a couple of brouhahas Monday night.

Favre completed 20 of 24 passes in the first three quarters against the team he helped put back on the map in 16 seasons in Green Bay.

The familiarity factor could be a wash in Monday night's highly anticipated showdown between Green Bay and Minnesota.

Davis, whose impressive exhibition season led to speculation about Jamal Lewis' future in Cleveland, will miss the rest of the season with a shoulder injury.

Vikings left guard Steve Hutchinson will play Monday night against the Green Bay Packers.

Antoine Winfield passed along some secondhand information as a way of explaining the magnitude of the Vikings-Packers matchup on Monday Night Football in Brett Favre's first game against his former team.