The Minnesota Vikings didn’t take any chances Sunday — pulling QB Brett Favre in favor of backup Tarvaris Jackson — but the veteran managed to set an NFL record and a team single-game record before exiting.

Vikings WR Bernard Berrian (hamstring) is active for today’s game against the Seahawks.

Vikings coach Brad Childress and the team are very close on a multi-year contract extension, according to a league source.

If Ralph Wilson is serious about making the Bills a prominent NFL franchise once again, it’s time to fork out the money and bring in the right people, writes Buffalo News columnist Jerry Sullivan.

Lions LB Ernie Sims will miss Sunday’s game against the Vikings with a hamstring injury that he sustained during a Week 9 loss to the Seahawks.

Vikings Pro Bowl CB Antoine Winfield will not play Sunday against the Lions, but he’s aiming to return for next week’s game against the Seahawks, a league source told NFL Network’s Jason La Canfora.

Teams have released their Week 10 practice participation reports through Wednesday. Here’s a look at some notable developments.

The NFL announced Wednesday that the kickoff time for the Nov. 29 Bears-Vikings game in Minnesota has been moved to 4:15 p.m. ET to accommodate Fox’s broadcast patterns.

Vikings coach Brad Childress said Pro Bowl CB Antoine Winfield was able to take part in practice Monday — a portion of practice that wasn’t open to the media — as the team returned from its bye week.

San Francisco now finds itself needing to rebound with back-to-back home wins, but the pressure isn’t so much on the players to do so. Whether or not the 49ers can get out of this rut lies squarely on the shoulders of head coach Mike Singletary, writes San Jose Mercury columnist Tim Kawakami.

Brett Favre once again showed the Packers that he still can play — this time at Lambeau Field — then immediately let his feelings flow.

Vikings quarterback Brett Favre ran into a half-full Lambeau Field at 2:37 local time for warm-ups and was met predominantly with boos by the Packers faithful, who once cheered him for the better part of his 16 seasons here.

Vikings rookie wide receiver Percy Harvin is expected to start today’s game against the Packers, despite missing two practices this week with an “illness.”

It didn’t come as much of a surprise, but there were more people sporting No. 4 Vikings jerseys around Lambeau Field on Saturday than there were sporting No. 4 Packers jerseys. But it was a gentleman sporting two “4s” on his Vikings jersey that got my attention.

It took Halloween — which happens to be Brett Favre’s Return Eve — to bring the characters out in Green Bay.