Posted by ESPN.com’s Kevin Seifert

Thanks to a heads-up from Twitter buddy @htphelps, we can confidently say that on Sunday we experienced the best NFC North day in four years. That’s right, the last time all four Black and Blue teams won in the same week was in November 2005. (Best I can tell, the information originally appeared over at Cheeseheadtv.com.)

Keep in mind there are limited opportunities for such a feat; it has to be a week in which each team plays outside of the division. No matter what the circumstances, however, it’s nice to know we have four happy fan bases this week whose only animus will be directed here. We’ve got three winning teams and a fourth that is finally heading in the right direction.

As for me, I’m heading back to NFC North headquarters to start preparing for the next biggest weekend in NFC North history. We’ve got a division game Sunday at Soldier Field and then Favre-Green Bay I Monday night at the Metrodome. This should be fun.

For now, let’s take a morning stroll through Monday morning coverage around the NFC North:

• Jim Souhan of the Star Tribune: “On his last play in his first home game as a Viking, a rival franchise's exiled legend threw a last second, game-winning touchdown pass he didn't see on a play he didn't remember practicing to a receiver he had barely met. This is what it means to be Brett Favre. This is what it means to have Brett Favre. This is what it means to watch Brett Favre.”
• Vikings cornerback Cedric Griffin to Tom Powers of the St. Paul Pioneer Press: “Oh, it was incredible. I was on the sideline thinking, 'Brett Favre is known for his comebacks. Brett Favre is known for his comebacks.' And look what we got!"
• Drew Sharp of the Detroit Free Press: “Jeff Backus felt 50 pounds lighter, having shed the biggest of the many albatrosses draped around his neck during his Lions career. The first player Matt Millen drafted eight years ago was the last player to leave the field Sunday afternoon, walking around Ford Field slapping hands with appreciative fans hanging over the railing, accepting thanks but offering it as well. 'You have no idea what a relief this is,' he sighed.”
• Mitch Albom of the Free Press: “You should have seen it. After 644 losing days, 21 losing months, 18 losing Sundays, one losing Thursday, four starting quarterbacks, one fired coach, one tar-and-feathered team president and a million bad jokes about Detroit futility -- after all that, the gun sounded on this last weekend of September, and our long, local nightmare was finally over. The Lions won a game. I swear.”
• Bob Wojnowski of the Detroit News: “How do you celebrate the end of historic ignominy? You do it with a gasp and a sigh, and some legitimately gutsy football. The second-longest losing streak in NFL history is over at 19 games, and nobody knows where the Lions go from here. But finally, they can stop looking back, and stop being reminded of all the nasty places they've been.”
• Mike Vandermause of the Green Bay Press-Gazette notes the Packers’ victory Sunday came over a less-than-prominent opponent: “The Packers turned in an uneven performance and displayed some of the same old nagging ailments that plagued them in their first two games this season. But thanks to both a weak and generous opponent, the Packers prevailed…”
• Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers left the pocket often Sunday and caught the St. Louis defense by surprise a few times, writes Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
• Jason Wilde of ESPN Milwaukee looks at the continuing problems the Packers have had protecting Rodgers.
• Chicago’s receivers are doing their part, writes David Haugh of the Chicago Tribune: “Everybody expected [Jay] Cutler to make the Bears' wide receivers better. But a week after Johnny Knox provided the fourth-quarter heroics, a second straight victory resulted from a Bears wide receiver making Cutler look pretty good. Next thing you know, the TV show ‘MythBusters’ will start staffing Bears games.”
• The Bears are starting to believe, writes Mike Mulligan of the Chicago Sun-Times.
• Devin Hester is starting to look like a No. 1 receiver, writes Jeff Dickerson of ESPN Chicago.