Quarterback Brett Favre says that he played his final NFL season, in 2010 for Minnesota, in large part because of the enticement of a big paycheck. "First of all, the money was too good,'' he told NFL Network. "And I hate to say it's about money. I felt the money was a lot. But the guys, I kind of felt like even though I knew it was going to be next to impossible (to duplicate the 2009 success) — I wouldn't tell them (that). Sidney (Rice), Jared (Allen), (Steve) Hutchinson and Adrian (Peterson), they were like, 'Unfinished business (from the year before).' I just knew that it probably was finished." Favre made $12 million in 2009 and was set to make $13 million in 2010. The Vikings gave him...
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