After playing for the Green Bay Packers, New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings, NFL quarterback Brett Favre was back on the football field in Chicago throwing touchdown passes (and interceptions) again.

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Mr. Tarkenton, an NFL Hall of Fame quarterback with the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants from 1961 to 1978, is an entrepreneur who runs two websites devoted to small business education.

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In his 16 NFL campaigns, most of them with the Minnesota Vikings, he was consistently among the league's top wideouts with eight straight seasons with over 1, 000 receiving yards and 130 total touchdowns.

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Whenever a new stadium battle erupts between a city and an NFL team (see: Minneapolis and the Minnesota Vikings), LA is mentioned in a threatening manner as the place where said team will move if a deal is not done.

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Doleman led the NFL with 21 sacks in 1989 while a member of the Minnesota Vikings, and he finished his career with 150, fourth-most in league history.

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The NFL found evidence that bounties were put out on quarterbacks Brett Favre of the Minnesota Vikings, Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers, Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers, and Kurt Warner of the Arizona Cardinals.

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My NFL career lasted nine years with five teams the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Jacksonville Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons, and Carolina Panthers.

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The NFL season begins Thursday night as the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints host Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings.

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