Favre to make decision by July 30

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Brett Favre acknowledged he's "running out of time" to decide whether he'll play for the Minnesota Vikings this season.

The quarterback told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he'll give the Vikings an answer on whether he'll play by the July 30 start of training camp. Favre has been working out with the Oak Grove High School football team three days a week all summer, but added a Sunday workout this week.

"There's two weeks left and I'm doing everything I can," Favre said. "I was down here Sunday morning working out. I'm trying to get everything to where I feel 100 percent when I go in. I can't go in any less. When you're 39 years old, it's hard enough. But it's getting there."

The former Packers and Jets quarterback said surgery to repair a biceps tendon in his throwing arm was successful and that he has enough velocity to return to the NFL. He's just not sure whether that means he'll be able to compete for an entire season.

"I felt like going to New York last year that I still had it," Favre said. "I didn't know my arm was hurt at the time. So that's what I try to get across to people. I had that fixed, the surgery to fix that, so I'm trying to make sure that if I go back that part is completely resolved."

It sure looked like it Wednesday morning, when a jovial Favre hit a variety of passes to high school and college wide receivers. He was crisp on short timing passes and was hitting receivers in the end zone from about 50 yards away. He attempted a few deep passes off bootlegs and usually hit his targets in stride.

NFL FANS CAN POST COMMENTS: The No Fun League is loosening up.

The NFL — the National Football League, that is — plans to let fans post comments all over its Web site and to reach deals to make its video more widely available.

That a business wants to use multimedia to interact more with its customers is hardly surprising in 2009. But when that business is so image-conscious that it earned the No Fun nickname, relinquishing some highly valued control is a major step.

As commissioner Roger Goodell said recently, "One of the things that's been a foundation of our success is controlling our content."

On a panel discussing e-commerce in late June in Philadelphia, Goodell called that balancing act "a fundamental question we're debating internally."