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If reports out of Minnesota are indeed true, Favre will be a Viking sometime today. Jay Glazer of FoxSports.com was the first to imply that movement on Favre was in the works. Profootballtalk.com has been fueling speculation about the return as well.Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports reports that Favre will receive $12 million for one year.If the deal is closed and this return happens, it will indeed make the NFC North a more interesting division. Aaron Rodgers vs. Brett Favre. Jay Cutler-Brett Favre.

Matthew Stafford-Brett Favre.Wonder what the Bears defense will have to say about Favre following practice today. Stay tuned.It's been a few weeks, so it was inevitable that Brett Favre's name would surface again in connection with the Minnesota Vikings.Wouldn't you think franchise owner Zygi Wilf would feel sufficiently snubbed after the perpetually capricious quarterback turned down Minnesota's bended-knee proposal days before training camp began last month? Even after Favre's agent, Bus Cook, told FanHouse Monday that this renewed dalliance is news to him, doesn't it seem like it's time to, gulp, accept the Sage Rosenfels Era in Minnesota?Logically, yes.

But after spending some time in Vikings' camp in Mankato, Minn., I came away with a sense that the door will remain open for Favre, Minnesota's longtime NFC North nemesis, for multiple reasons:Lagging Ticket SalesIt's no secret that the moldy Metrodome is not an inviting place to watch NFL games. Wilf was forced several times in 2008 to issue public pleas for fans to crowd the turnstiles to avoid local television blackouts. In the Twin Cities, there simply isn't a public groundswell to replace the 27-year-old Metrodome, which the Vikings say provides one of the lowest revenue streams in the NFL and where the lease expires after 2011 season.

Wilf, who bought the franchise in 2005, has been adamant in his demand that the archaic stadium be replaced. Favre's presence, everyone believes, will spur fans of the player, not only the Vikings, to plan a Twin Cities trip to watch a legend playing in what should be his final uniform.