Favre sets mark for TD passes
10/1/2007MINNEAPOLIS - The record is his, for now, and Brett Favre can return his focus on two other numbers: 4-0.
To hear him tell it over and over, this is all he has ever worried about: helping Green Bay win.
Favre became the NFL's all-time leader in career touchdown passes with a couple of vintage third-down zingers yesterday, and the Packers stayed unbeaten with a 23-16 victory over the Minnesota Vikings.
"To win, and get this behind us, is a great feeling," said Favre, who threw No. 421 in the first quarter to Greg Jennings and No. 422 in the fourth quarter to rookie James Jones.
He also went interception-free against a defense determined to make him the league's all-time leader in that category. Favre remained three picked-off passes away from topping George Blanda's 277 on the career list.
Former teammate Darren Sharper had one in the first quarter that was wiped out by a penalty. He congratulated Favre after the game that left the frustrated Vikings 1-3. The Packers joined the Dallas Cowboys as the NFC's only undefeated teams.
Kelly Holcomb is, well, not quite in Favre's class.
He threw a touchdown pass to Sidney Rice with 1:55 left to pull the Vikings within seven, and a nearly disastrous fumble gave Minnesota a chance to tie it.
Favre's handoff to Ryan Grant wasn't clean, and Chad Greenway fell on it at the Minnesota 46. But Holcomb's tipped pass from the Packers 34 was intercepted by Atari Bigby, with the Vikings screaming unsuccessfully for an interference call on Charles Woodson.
Minnesota also argued at another crucial point that Korey Hall fumbled when Antoine Winfield hit him hard out of the backfield. Greeenway picked up the ball and would've scored an easy touchdown, but the incomplete pass ruling was not allowed to be challenged.