Postgame: Vikings livid after loss to Packers

"The umpire standing on that side, they called a penalty, the guy hadn't called a penalty all night long and then I don't know if he got religion or what happened but Bruce whatever his name didn't make a [expletive] call all night long," Childress said. "Now we're going to get a facemask. I mean c'mon now. C'mon." Said Loadholt: "I didn't feel it. I couldn't tell. I thought I had his shoulder and kept pushing him by. We just have to look at the film and see. They thought I did."

Childress said he considered removing Favre but he did not say if he had told Favre. "[I] was going to give him that next series and he took us and moved us down the field," Childress said. Favre was emotional in the locker room afterward. "To me it's devastating," Favre said. "Devastating. I don't know how else to put it...You feel like you let everybody down." Favre re-injured his left ankle, which required surgery this past offseason, and moved slowly after the game. He was asked if the injury could affect his ability to play next week. "Who knows?" he said. "Really, who knows? I hope I do. The reality is, if I can play but not be effective, then it's not worth playing. I hope I use good judgment. We'll see. I'm no spring chicken anymore. I don't heal as quickly. I know the heart's in the right place though. I know I left it on the field. It's just disappointing it didn't work our way." Here are some other quick notes from locker room: -- Rookie Toby Gerhart -- not Adrian Peterson -- was on the field for critical third- and fourth-down plays on the final drive. "I don't have an idea," Peterson said when asked why he wasn't on the field. "I don't call the plays. Just when they call my number I go out there and do my job." Asked if he was surprised that he wasn't in at that point, Peterson said: "Was I surprised? I can say I was. But Toby does a great job. He has taken some steps forward in his improvement. Maybe it was a play designed for him or what-not. But I just do my job when they call my number." Childress said Gerhart was in the game because of certain personnel packages and not concerns over Peterson's pass protection. "We just had it set up that he had different packages and so Toby was going to get in there," Childress said. "He did a nice job of running with the football, he did a great job of picking up in pass protection. Typically guys play in packages and those were his to take." -- Percy Harvin had two touchdowns overturned by replay. He thought he had made a potential game-winning 35-yard touchdown catch with less than a minute remaining. However, the play was reversed on review because Harvin's right foot clearly came down out of bounds. Afterward, Harvin said that play "will be hard to swallow." "I knew it was going to be a close call," Harvin said. "I did the best I could trying to get the ball down. It was a heck of a throw. Just ran out of space. Some of those plays you make, some you don't. Of course we wish we could make them." That's it for now. We'll have plenty more reaction when we return to Winter Park in a few hours from now.