Brett Favre leads the Vikings to within wholesale jerseys a game of the Super Bowl after the 2009 season before a late interception against the Saints ends Minnesota's title hopes.

According to an ESPN report, St. Louis reached out to Brett Favre on Sunday night after learning that Bradford had suffered a season ending knee injury. 1 overall pick Sam Bradford to a season ending knee injury Sunday.

"It's flattering, but you know there's no way I'm going to do that," Favre told ESPN 570 Radio in Washington on Thursday.

Bradford, the first overall pick in the 2010 NFL draft out of Oklahoma, suffered a torn ACL in his left knee during Sunday's 30 15 loss to the Carolina Panthers.

With Favre making it clear he wasn't coming back, the Rams signed veteran QB Brady Quinn after reportedly having conversations about giving Tim Tebow a call. Quinn, the former Notre Dame signalcaller, was released by the Jets earlier this week.

Favre, who led the Packers to two Super Bowls including a win in Super Bowl XXXI and was a nine time Pro Bowler with the team, struggled to stay away from the game after initially hanging up his cleats after the 2007 season. He returned for a failed season with the Jets in 2008, before again returning to play two seasons with the Vikings.

"I had a great career. I think if anything, the last year that I played was an obvious writing on the wall, vision for you if you will," Favre said in the radio interview. "It was time."

Favre had a career resurgence at age 40 in Minnesota leading the Vikings to a 12 4 record in 2009. But a shoulder injury the following season ended his consecutive starts streak at 297. Favre said the 2010 injury helped him realize it was time to walk away for good.

The Rams reached out to Favre through his agent, Bus Cook, according to the ESPN report.

Another former Jets QB, Kellen Clemens, will start for the Rams on Monday night against the Seahawks.

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The two divisions are at opposite ends of the league's hierarchy, and not in the way anyone expected. At 22 8 straight up and 18 9 3 against the spread, the AFC West is the NFL's toughest set of four teams.

The NFC East is just as clearly the worst at 11 20 straight up and 15 16 against the spread. Those records are fattened up from the teams' head to head meetings, as the AFC West has gone 9 1 straight up, 7 3 against the spread when facing the NFC East this year.

Four more matchups remain between the divisions, with two taking place during Sunday's slate of week 9 games. kickoff, while the San Diego Chargers visit the Washington Redskins in an early game installed as a pick 'em.

Two went with the home team, calling for the Redskins to defend their FedEx Field with a win and cover for only the second time this season. game on the other side of the country.

For the year, the Eastern time zone hasn't lived up to its reputation of giving the Pacific based teams fits. Teams from the far West are 5 1 against the spread and 4 2 straight up when playing on the opposite coast.

The Chargers have already prevailed twice in the situation, beating the Eagles 33 30 as 7.5 point underdogs in week 2 before striking the Greg Robinson Rams Jersey Jaguars 24 6 as 7.5 point favorites two Sundays ago.

Recent work by SportsInsights, however, found that the blabber about West Coast teams traveling east was more than just noise. Over the past eight years, according to the article, teams from the Pacific time zone are just 44 57 against the spread when losing three hours.

The record falls all the way to 16 38 against the spread when the team is coming off a win, as the Chargers are in this instance. Betting against San Diego this season hasn't been a wise move, though.

At 5 1 1 against the spread, the Chargers fall behind only the NFC East leading Dallas Cowboys, who are 7 1 versus the number despite being only 4 4 straight up, as the most profitable team to bet on in 2013.

The San Diego offense has experienced a resurgence under first year coach Mike McCoy, ranking third in the NFL according to Football Outsiders' DVOA ratings. It's the best that unit has performed since 2009, when the Chargers went 13 3 to earn a first round bye in the playoffs.

Philip Rivers is playing at an even higher level this year. He's second in DVOA among quarterbacks, putting together a career year according to both advanced metrics and traditional statistics. A deep receiving corps, which featured Eddie Royal scoring five touchdowns in the opening two weeks and rookie Keenan Allen recently having back to back 100 yard games, has certainly helped.

Contrary to what many believe, Washington's offense isn't the biggest reason for its underwhelming 2 5 straight up and against the spread record. Even with Robert Griffin III initially looking rusty coming off knee surgery, the offense ranks right in the middle of the league at No. 15 in DVOA.

Some better rushing games from Griffin along with the emergence of rookie tight end Jordan Reed has helped that mark in recent weeks. The defense remains the issue.

Washington ranks 27th in defensive DVOA, five spots ahead of dead last San Diego. The over/under is the highest on the board at a towering 51.5 points for a reason.

Seven of 10 AFC West vs. NFC East games this year, incidentally, have gone over the total.

Check below for all of the Sun's week 9 picks against the spread. Games are listed in order of kickoff time.

Players to watch

Toni Anderson, Sr., Beaumont: In the state championship game, she had a team high 15 kills on 36 attempts. For the season, she averaged 2.9 kills in 74 sets.

Abby Detering, Sr., Lake Catholic: The Florida recruit is a four year varsity starter. In 22 matches and 68 games last year, she totaled 235 kills for an average of 3.5 per game. She also totaled 278 assists (4.1 per game) and 114 digs (1.7).

Jess Janota, Sr., Gilmour: The Iowa recruit earned first team all state honors last year and was the district player of the year. She led her team with 293 kills, 100 blocks, 32 aces and 131 digs.

Jamie Kosiorek, Sr., Kenston: The Ohio University recruit averaged 4.4 kills and 3.0 digs per set last year.

Megan McGinley, Jr., Chagrin Falls: The middle hitter, who is a DI recruit, totaled 224 kills last year (2.9 per set). She also had 58 assisted blocks and 28 solo blocks along with 1.1 service point per set.

Megan Moroney, Sr., Mentor: Against some of the best middle hitters in the state last year, she led the Cardinals with 166 kills in 62 games (2.68 average).

Nicole Nugent, Sr., South: She averaged 7.4 digs in 82 sets last year and helped the Rebels reach their first DI regional semifinal in school history.

Megan Polak, Jr., Gilmour: The Lancers' setter led the team with 678 assists. She also had 113 kills, 39 aces and 195 digs. The DI recruit is being looked at by Lehigh, James Madison and Connecticut.

Stephanie Williams, Jr., NDCL: University of Pittsburgh recruit is a three year starter. She had 352 digs, 580 attacks with 268 kills (for a kill average of 4.54), 32 aces and 18 solo blocks last year.

Anna Del Zoppo, Jr., Mayfield: She had 515 career digs as a sophomore with 269 career service points. The talented libero is a three year starter.

Teams to watch

Beaumont: The defending Division II state champions have plenty of firepower back with five projected starters who have state experience.

The bar has been set high at Beaumont, which lost in the state semifinals http://www.brownsnflofficialonline.com/Terrance_West_Jersey_Browns two years ago.

They are battling injuries, but their young players are stepping up including promising freshman Kimberly Borowski, who can play every position on the court.??

Gilmour: The Lancers advanced to the state finals two years ago. A year ago, they lost to Cuyahoga Heights in the Division III regional semifinals.

Four of their projected starters are Division I recruits Brzozowski, Janota, Snelling and Turk.

The majority of the Lancers were involved in JO volleyball including Janota, Polak, Turk, Snelling and Brzozowski who went to nationals on their respective teams.

Kenston: The Bombers, who were 20 8 last year, have four Division I recruits on their roster Emily Newell (George Washington), Amy Pilot (High Point), Bindernagel (Indiana) and Kosiorek (Ohio).

The Bombers must adjust to their new coach Stephen Scherlacher, who replaced Dan Coughlin. Scherlacher has 16 years of coaching experience. He's spent the last four years as the director of volleyball operations at Eastside Volleyball Club in Mentor.

Lake Catholic: The Cougars won a state championship when this year's seniors were freshmen. Can the seniors go out on top again this year?

Projected senior starters are Abby Detering (setter/right side hitter), Maggie Wilhelm (middle hitter) and Morgan Duffy (libero).

The Cougars will have to get by defending state champion Beaumont if they want to book a trip to Dayton.

The Blue Streaks defeated their NCL rivals in the regional semifinals last year and the regional finals the previous year.

NEW ORLEANS Working separately, John and Jim Harbaugh each guided their team to the Super Bowl. They will be on opposite sidelines Sunday, John as head coach of the Baltimore Ravens and Jim with the San Francisco 49ers.

Imagine how effective they could be if working together.

At their joint news conference Friday, someone asked the brothers if they would consider teaming up if either should be forced out of his current post.

"No question about it," John said. "We've had that conversation in the past. It just never really worked out timing wise. I'd love to work for Jim. It would be the greatest thing in the world."

Jim, coach of the San Francisco 49ers, said, "Definitely, I would work for him."

Super Bowl tradition dictates that the coaches meet with the media separately two days before the Super Bowl. That custom was altered Friday because, after all, two brothers have never before coached against each other in the Super Bowl.

Wearing a dark suit, white shirt, striped tie and laced business shoes, John settled into a director's chair behind a Ravens helmet. Jim, wearing a 49ers hat, a sweat shirt, khaki pants and running shoes, sat in an identical chair behind a San Francisco helmet.

Calling it "an exciting moment," John ticked off the names of family members in attendance, including his parents. They posed for pictures with grandfather Joe Cipiti on the stage afterward, too.

Jack Harbaugh, their father, was a successful college coach. His sons followed in his footsteps, but on different paths. There was one time, however, when the routes nearly merged.

"We almost made it happen at Stanford at one time," John said. "It would be an honor to have him on the staff. He's a great coach. You always try to get great coaches, and there are none better than Jim Harbaugh, and I mean that seriously. There's no better coach in the National Football League than this guy right here."

To which Jim added, "Well, Jack Harbaugh."

The family coaching tree could run even deeper one day. Jim's son, Jay, works for John as a coaching intern with the Ravens.

"He's far better than we've anticipated, and I knew he would be great at what he does," John said.

The brothers obviously had a lot of fun with the situation, joking with each other and sometimes acting like a comedy team.

Someone asked them to list their commonalities and philosophical differences.

"I would be hard pressed to spell philosophical right now," Jim said.

"I know he can't spell commonalities," John said, not missing a beat.

Although Jack Harbaugh has received much of the credit for molding the boys into coaches, the brothers revealed that their mother, Jackie, also had a great deal of influence on their growth into men.

"There is no one in the family who has more competitive fire than my mother. She competes like a maniac. She has just always believed in us, and I think that is the most important thing to me. She believed in me, John, and Joanie, and took us to games and played catch with us, shot baskets with us, and just believed in us."

"No one would fight harder for us than our mom, no matter what the situation was, or teach us how to have each other's back and be there for one another," John said. "We may have been talking football with dad in the basement, but mom was talking about other things. There were a lot of things going on in our world during the 70s, and Mom was always tuned in on those kinds of things."

Someone asked the brothers whether they considered how they will handle the postgame handshake. Jim Harbaugh enraged Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz for giving him a quick handshake and a hard backslap after a 2011 game, but that certainly won't be an issue Sunday night.

"I've given absolutely no consideration to the postgame hand shake or bear hug or anything else," John said. "I haven't thought about that for one second. Have you, Jim?"

Super Bowl I Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10JAN. 15, 1967 (Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles) Commissioner Pete Rozelle, left, presents the trophy to Green Bay Packers Coach Vince Lombardi after they beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I. (AP Photo, File)

Super Bowl II Green Bay Packers 33, Oakland Raiders 14JAN. 14, 1968 (Orange Bowl, Miami) Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi is carried off the field after his team defeated the Oakland Raiders, 33 14. (AP Photo)

Super Bowl III New York Jets 16, Baltimore Colts 7JAN. 12, 1969 (Orange Bowl, Miami) Jets quarterback Joe Namath gives his father a big hug in the locker room after leading his underdog team to a 16 7 win over the Baltimore Colts. (AP Photo)

Super Bowl IV Kansas City Chiefs 23, Minnesota Vikings 7 JAN. 11, 1970 (Tulane Stadium, New Orleans) Kansas City Chiefs Coach Hank Stram is carried from the field after his team defeated the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV. (AP Photo)

Super Bowl V Baltimore Colts 16, Dallas Cowboys 13JAN. 17, 1971 (Orange Bowl, Miami) Baltimore Colts quarterback John Unitas loosens his throwing arm before the start of Super Bowl V against the Dallas Cowboys. (AP Photo/Steve Starr)

Super Bowl VI Dallas Cowboys 24, Miami Dolphins 3JAN. 16, 1972 (Tulane Stadium, New Orleans) Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach (12) tries to escape the grasp of Miami Dolphins defender Jim Riley (70) during Super Bowl VI in New Orleans. (AP Photo)

Super Bowl VII Miami Dolphins 14, Washington Redskins 7JAN. 14, 1973 (Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles) Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula lets out with a roar as the gun sounds to give his Dolphins a 14 7 Super Bowl victory over the Washington Redskins. (AP Photo/File)

Associated Press NFL ROTY Award[edit]

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Every week during the NFL regular season, five finalists are chosen for the Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week award, and the winner is determined by fan voting online. Those results are used to help determine the finalists for the Rookie of the Year award. Voting occurs throughout the postseason and concludes the week before the Super Bowl.[7] More than 350,000 votes were cast for the inaugural award in 2002,[8] 1.002 million votes in 2009, and more than 1.59 million votes in 2010.[9] Since 2011, the winner of the Pepsi Rookie of the Year award is announced at the NFL Honors show the night before the Super Bowl along with the AP Rookie of the Year awards.[4]