Judd Zulgad has been on the NFL beat since the 2003 season, when he began a (gasp) two-year stint covering the Green Bay Packers for the Star Tribune. Zulgad has covered the Vikings since 2005 and is as shocked as anyone that he is again following the daily exploits of Brett Favre.
Chip Scoggins knew his second season covering the Vikings would be eventful when he saw the news helicopter tracking Brett Favre to Winter Park and a guy dressed in a full parrot costume standing outside.
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DiggBrett Favre not only continues to deliver victories to the Vikings, he also continues to help the NFL produce some impressive ratings.
The latest example came Sunday as Favre's return to Lambeau Field to play the Green Bay Packers fired a 47.0 rating and 76 share in the Twin Cities on Fox affiliate KMSP (Ch. 9). That makes it the highest-rated regular-season game on Fox in this market since the network began airing the NFL in 1994.
Milwaukee, which is the home market for the Packers when it comes to television, had the second-highest rating in the country with a 45.7 and 70 share. But that didn't even crack the top five for Fox's NFL telecasts in that city.
The Vikings-Packers game was the anchor game of Fox's NFL doubleheader -- the Carolina-Arizona went to 6 percent of the country and the Vikings-Packers went to 91 percent -- and had an 18.3 rating and 34 share. That's Fox's best national game rating since Week 13 of the 2006 season and also the best overnight rating for a regular-season game since the New England-Indianapolis matchup in 2007.
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| Date/Opponent | Time | W | L | Score |
| Sep 13 - at Cleveland | 12:00 PM | 1 | 0 | 34-20 |
| Sep 20 - at Detroit | 12:00 PM | 2 | 0 | 27-13 |
| Sep 27 - vs. San Francisco | 12:00 PM | 3 | 0 | 27-24 |
| Oct 5 - vs. Green Bay | 7:30 PM | 4 | 0 | 30-23 |
| Oct 11 - at St. Louis | 12:00 PM | 5 | 0 | 38-10 |
| Oct 18 - vs. Baltimore | 12:00 PM | 6 | 0 | 33-31 |
| Oct 25 - at Pittsburgh | 12:00 PM | 6 | 1 | 17-27 |
| Nov 1 - at Green Bay | 3:15 PM | 7 | 1 | 38-26 |
| Open | ||||
| Nov 15 - vs. Detroit | 12:00 PM | 8 | 1 | 27-10 |
| Nov 22 - vs. Seattle | 12:00 PM | 9 | 1 | 35-9 |
| Nov 29 - vs. Chicago | 3:15 PM | |||
| Dec 6 - at Arizona | 3:15 PM | |||
| Dec 13 - vs. Cincinnati | 12:00 PM | |||
| Dec 20 - at Carolina | 7:20 PM | |||
| Dec 28 - at Chicago | 7:30 PM | |||
| Jan 3 - vs. NY Giants | 12:00 PM |
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