Yep, Brett Favre is having an encore in Minnesota this year.

You read it, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre is hoping he can lead his team to a shot at the Super Bowl after deciding to return to the Minnesota Vikings to play in the 2010 NFL football season.

The return of the three-time most valuable player, who last season had the Minnesota Vikings one win from an appearance in the Super Bowl, will mark his 20th season and ended months of speculation about whether or not he would retire.

“I was so close to getting these guys to the Super Bowl,” the 40-year-old Brett Favre said in a news conference at the Vikings’ training camp in Minnesota. The NFL’s all-time leading passer, who worked out with the team said he has nothing to prove and that his decision to play another season was all about his team.

Favre said he has been thinking: “You are so close… let’s do it together… let’s finish this together.”

Three of Favre’s teammates flew to his hometown in Mississippi to bring him back for one more season and a few days later, they all boarded a private plane for Minnesota.

In one of the best seasons of his long career, Favre led the Vikings to a 12-4 regular-season record last year before losing in the NFC championship game after a Favre interception halted a Vikings drive late in regulation.

An ankle injury Favre suffered in that game required surgery in May and held up a decision on his return. The surgery has made the left ankle a little better, but the gray-haired Favre admitted there was no part of him that was 100% any more.

“I can’t promise I can make it through the season,” said Favre. “But if I am going to play, I am going to play at a high level.”

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