[Bette]

So who were the kids here, exactly?
In the late stages of the Green Bay Packers’ snowswept 42-20 playoff victory over Seattle on Saturday, Brett Favre and Donald Driver playfully engaged in a snowball fight. Favre hit Driver in the back — one of the few times Saturday that Favre threw something one of his wideouts could not catch — and Driver tossed one that partly stuck on Favre’s helmet.
Favre, 38, and the 32-year-old Driver are rarities on these Packers, two of the oldest hands on a roster that was the league’s youngest on opening day, averaging 26 years 89 days. In the week before Saturday’s victory, cornerback Al Harris, who at 33 is the third-oldest Packer, said he thought Green Bay’s inexperience might be a detriment. The team’s youngsters delightfully proved him wrong.
As for Favre, the quarterback with gray in his stubble, he played well, too. He threw for three touchdowns in going 18 for 23 for 173 yards, and his 137.6 passer rating was his best in his 21 postseason games.
At his postgame news conference, Favre raised his hand to indicate that he, too, was not sure his young teammates were capable of this.
Maybe Favre’s young teammates do not know any better. Or maybe they are just as good as they think they are.
“I’ve been hoping for that for 17 years,” Favre said of the conditions. “I watched the weather all day, and I was like, ‘Just give us one of those big snow games.’ I wanted to play where you couldn’t see the field and the snow plow comes out, and it keeps getting worse and worse

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/sp...=1&oref=slogin