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Favre going where few QBs have gone before
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Minnnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre drops back to throw a pass during NFL preseason camp earlier this month in Eden Prairie, Minn. After staying away from training camp, Favre was practicing less than 24 hours after the team sent three of his closest friends to Mississippi to bring him back following another summer of indecision. - photo by AP Photo
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — The aches and pains simply never go away for Brett Favre anymore.Nineteen NFL seasons have taken their toll, and when he gets out of bed in the morning he feels every one of the hits he’s taken. His ankle barks at him as soon as his foot hits the floor, his knees creak as he stands up and his back groans as he stretches to get loosened up for another day as a 40-year-old quarterback.“There’s nothing on me 100 percent,” Favre said. “There wasn’t anything on me 100 percent last year or the year before.