Cracked crib did not prevent Favre from starting against Texans

Before Monday night’s game against the Houston Texans, the Minnesota Vikings quarter back Brett Favre, who was signed by the team on Aug. 18 with a $25 million deal, told reporters that he might have a cracked rib. However, he still started the game without wearing any kind of special padding.

Favre has not received any official diagnosis, but he said that he felt discomfort while taking a deep breath. And he did not plan to wear a special padding because he considered it unnecessary since the damage was done. Whatever, apparently the damage did not affect his performance during the game and it did not look like that Favre was in pain when he handed off to Adrian Peterson on the first play of the game.

I believe it was not serious at all, because there was no signal showing that the team would change the plan to have Favre playing the entire first half against the Texans. His name was not on the injury report and the injury had not been mentioned by any player of the team except Favre himself before the game.