By DAVE CAMPBELL
AP Sports Writer

MINNEAPOLIS(AP) -- Brett Favre added another feat to his
overflowing resume: He's the first quarterback in history to
beat all 32 NFL teams.

Well, he saved the best for last: The Green Bay Packers.

Favre's first game against his former team was all fun for the
Minnesota Vikings and all frustration for the Packers, as the
graying quarterback kept his cool and connected for three
touchdown passes and 271 yards in a 30-23 victory on Monday
night.

"I don't know how to explain it. I felt right, but I guess I
never thought I'd be in that situation," Favre said.

Favre went 24 for 31, without a turnover. He celebrated his
first scoring toss with an awkward body bump with kicker Ryan
Longwell, also a former Packers teammate, and showed plenty of
emotion on this most emotional night. He stayed poised in the
pocket all night, too, and avoided the risky throws that have
defined his career almost as much as the success.

"I don't think there was any question what he could do when he
came back," Packers cornerback Charles Woodson said. "But you
know, we didn't do ourselves any justice."

The Vikings (4-0) sacked Favre's replacement, Aaron Rodgers,
eight times. Jared Allen was credited with 4 1/2 of them, a
career high, including a safety in the fourth quarter that
stretched the lead to 16. Rodgers had his first two turnovers of
the season, and Favre turned both of them into vintage touchdown
passes in the first half.

"I definitely wanted to get this win for Brett," teammate Adrian
Peterson said. "He downplayed it all week, but I just knew it
meant a lot to him. I could see it in his eyes."

Favre hugged Rodgers, Donald Driver and several other Packers
once the game was over. Rodgers tried to engineer the kind of
drive his predecessor is famous for, but he came up short.

"Below my expectations, definitely," Rodgers said. "To have
three possessions where you're in their territory and come away
with zero points, two of them are directly related to mistakes
by myself, that's disappointing."

Favre had tons of time to throw throughout the game, and Rodgers
had the exact opposite experience - often hanging onto the ball
too long. He finished 26 for 37 for a career-high 384 yards,
many of them in desperation down the stretch, and two touchdown
passes.

The Vikings were relentless in their rush, particularly Allen on
left tackle Daryn Colledge, who left in the third quarter with a
right knee injury. Colledge moved from left guard two weeks ago
when Chad Clifton got hurt.

Rodgers' receivers let him down, too, though. On fourth-and-goal
at the 1 in the third quarter, Rodgers found tight end Donald
Lee open in the end zone. But the ball bounced off Lee's chest
and onto the turf, as Rodgers snapped his head back with his
hands on the sides of his helmet.

Pink wristbands, cleats and sideline caps for breast cancer
awareness gave the game a different look, but nothing altered
the color scheme as much as Favre in purple. This was his sixth
game with Minnesota, counting the preseason, but the sight of
the guy who led Green Bay to a Super Bowl trophy and took only
one losing record in 16 years there wearing the rival team's
jersey was still strange.

This was a highly anticipated and heavily hyped game. Everybody
in the stadium stood all the way through the Vikings' first
possession, instead of sitting after the first few snaps like
usual. Cameras flashed constantly.

"You don't want your quarterback crying coming out of the locker
room," coach Brad Childress said. "He was great."

Favre was clearly uncomfortable this week with all the attention
on this reunion, trying to downplay the significance and
stumbling through denials that his main motivation to unretire
last year was revenge on general manager Ted Thompson for not
letting him come back and compete for his old job with Rodgers.

"My statement has been what I've done over my career," Favre
said. "One game does not define my career good or bad. I know
what I've done. I'm proud of what I've done. I know I can play.
I wanted to do what it takes to win."

One of the most excitable players football has ever seen,
Favre's history in emotional games has been mixed. In 2003, on
Monday night against Oakland after the death of his father,
Favre threw for 399 yards and four touchdowns. In 1999, though,
he went 14 for 35 with four interceptions in his first game
against Mike Holmgren after the head coach took over in Seattle.

Favre said he felt on this night a lot like he did in that game
after his dad died. He said he was as nervous as he could
remember, once it dawned on him in the afternoon the
significance of this matchup.

"It's why I play the game. It was fun. It never gets told to me,
even though I do," he said.

The Packers (2-2) stuffed Peterson with their new 3-4 defense,
holding him to 12 yards on 11 attempts in the second half and 55
yards for the game. They even turned one short gain directly
into points: Rookie Clay Matthews joined a gang tackle and
ripped the ball out, returning it 42 yards to tie the score at
14.

"I was hoping we'd run the ball better than that," Favre said.
"Against a defense like that you don't want to throw the ball
that many times. But it was better than I thought it'd be."

Favre trotted right out and took the Vikings down the field,
though. He fired a 43-yard pass to Percy Harvin to give the
Vikings first-and-goal at the 3, then caught a break when
Woodson's interception in the end zone was wiped out by a pass
interference penalty. Replays showed Woodson making minimal, if
any, contact with Sidney Rice, but Peterson plunged in for a
touchdown on the next play to make it 21-14.

Then came an eight-play, 80-yard drive that stretched the lead
to 14. Favre found Bernard Berrian wide open from 31 yards for
the score, but the setup was more impressive. Favre had six or
seven seconds to throw, and found backup tight end Jeff Dugan
for a 25-yarder.

"I didn't expect him to do that. I thought we would play better,
but obviously we didn't," Woodson said. "And, you know, give him
a lot of credit."

NOTES: Rodgers has been sacked 20 times this season. ...
Thirteen of the last 15 games in this series have been decided
by seven points or fewer. ... A handful of Twins players,
including Joe Nathan, Jesse Crain and Delmon Young, spent their
night off on the sideline. They got loud cheers when they
appeared on the scoreboard. The Twins play Detroit in an AL
Central tiebreaker on Tuesday.