What do you call yourself when youre a playoff-caliber team without a top-notch quarterback to lead you to the playoffs? You call yourself the Minnesota Vikings.

The guys who play their games in the land of cold air and snow of course, unlike their football ancestors, they play indoors need help behind center. They need a field general who can lead them to the victories and a place deep in the playoffs and, maybe, just maybe, a trip to the next Super Bowl.

It could happen , if the Vikings find and get a top quarterback. And this is where it gets interesting. There may be a Hall-of-Fame-to-be quarterback available , a guy who played nearly twenty years for the arch-divisional-rival of the Vikings, the Green Bay Packers. The name of this superstar, super-stud quarterback is, of course, the great Brett Favre.

Favre unretired last year, put on the cleats and took snaps under center at The Meadowlands as the starting Quarterback for the New York Jets. Eleven games into the season in 2008-2009, the Brett Favre-as-Jets-Quarterback was working, big time. The Jets were 8-3 and in first place , and rolling.

Unfortunately, there were still more games to play. And as the weather got colder and the winds picked up at The Meadowlands, Favre started to play like his age , a 39 year old, past-his-prime, QB who no longer could be called the Gunslinger.

Football executives must have short memories. Its a new year, a new season, and the often Quarterback-starved Minnesota Vikings are apparently interested in bringing in Brett Favre or some other vetran to take the snaps for them on offense. Maybe they thing the controlled climate, wind-free environment of indoor home games will help the vikes recapture the glory and skill of his early years in the league.

But they also have to play intra-divisional away games in frigid Green Bay and equally frigid, and often impossibly windy, Chicago. Yes. The Green Bay Packers, Favres team for nearly twenty years, and the ferocious Chicago Bears, plus the rebuilding Detroit Lions are all cities that Minnesota has to visit each winter. And two of those games, the more difficult ones against the Bears and the Packers will be played outdoors.

Can the vikings still play effectively in bad weather conditions even though they are a dome team? If youre a fan of the Vikings, you have to hope that they can lean on peterson who is flat out awsome in the backfield, and their coach grows a set since he in my opinion is a baby playcaller and never calls a good game or is aggresive on offense. If you like to bet, youll have interesting options. It may pay to wager against Minnesota more often then not.