Welcome to another addition of Ice Cold Sports, part of the Radio Blog Network, I'm the Iceman here to recap and give me my spin on all the event from this past weekend in the NFL. Today we will take a look back at the NFC title game and what Brett Favre SHOULD do. Tuesday we'll look at the AFC and I'll give you a first of many looks of Super Bowl 44 on Wednesday.

But first I will quickly mention that yes Craig...Ray Whitney PWNED Big Z yesterday. With that said...lets get into it.

Yesterday's NFC title game was one for the ages between the Vikings and Saints in the Big Easy. It pretty much had everything you could ask for in a great game. Drama, suspense, hard hits, great plays, and best of all it came down to the wire.

I will say this...I don't think I ever saw Brett Favre take so many hard hits in one game before but we all how big a gamer he his and he really fought through obvious pain. But we'll get to Favre a little bit later on.

I'll say this...Saints fans, feel fortunate that you escaped that game with a win. With as many dropped balls Saints receivers had its amazing really. The Saints defense couldn't really contain Adrian Peterson but lets face it, what team can? AP was awesome. But the Saints defense came up big when they needed to forcing five turnovers. But we know the Saints for their offense. Where was it exactly?



Sure Drew Brees threw 3 touchdowns but 17 for 31 and 197 yards isn't all that great in a big championship game. All that really means is he made plays when he needed to. Of course like I mentioned earlier, the Saints receivers did fail to hang on to a considerable amount of passes. And granted Brees was up against a very strong Vikings defense and was pressured all day long, it won't get any easier in two weeks when he faces a very fast front seven from Indianapolis.

Credit the Vikings defense with this. They held and contained the stellar running attack of Pierre Thomas and Reggie Bush to only 69 yards on 21 carries. But when it comes to overtime, if you get the ball first, chances are you are going to score.

Now the two penalties in the overtime didn't exactly help the Vikings defense. You can't commit a holding penalty on third and long and expect to gain momentum. And when you have a pass interference that obvious, you are basically screwed. The Saints took advantage of the penalties and the Saints were able to kick their way to Miami.



Now lets turn our attention to Brett Favre. Whether you like him or not, he is one if not the best quarterback to ever play the game of football and like him or not he had one the best seasons of his career this season.



But what should he do? Retire? Come back for one final season? His teammates seem convinced that he is as good as gone. But don't be so sure about that.

Think back to the 2007-08 NFC title game. Lambaeu Field, Favre and the Packers hosting the New York Giants. The game goes to overtime and what is Favre's last pass? Thats right, an interception. That one pass I believe was a big reason why he came back the following season. And one would hate to end a career with a play like that. Like mentioned before, Favre had one of the best seasons of his career with the Vikings. He threw 33 touchdowns and only 7 interceptions. This season was the first time in his entire career he had a season with less than ten interceptions. He also had a career high in pass completion percentage completing 68% of his passes. His 4202 passing yards were also the third most total in his long amazing career.



And with the team he has why shouldn't he come back? He'll still have AP, Sidney Rice, Percy Harvin who will only get better, and a great defense that could set him up for another title run next season. All the Vikings need to do is give him some time and not pressure him on a decision. But I'm formally calling it right here and now, write it down, I say Brett Favre WILL be back next season because he has proved he can still do it and he has the tools to win.

That wraps it up for today. We'll revisit the AFC title game tomorrow. Till then I'm the Iceman and this has been Ice Cold Sports on the Radio Blog Network.