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Brett Favre's adjustment to being a member of the Minnesota Vikings appears to be nearly complete. The sight of Favre in a Vikings uniform is no longer jarring to the senses, and the quarterback cleared a major hurdle this month when he beat the team he was once synonymous with, the Green Bay Packers, at the Metrodome.

PITTSBURGH - Funny thing is Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley actually thought he would escape ridicule from his teammates Sunday after toting the football 77 yards in what seemed like 2 1/2 minutes to score the most unlikely defensive touchdown we've seen around here since, well, Super Bowl Sunday.

Wrong.

Week 7 NFL picks from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's pigskin prognosticator.

All times Eastern.

Minnesota Vikings (6-0) at Pittsburgh Steelers (4-2), 1 p.m., Sunday

Keeping up with the developments regarding football concussions will give you a headache.

And really, who gives a spit ... unless you're a player at any level, a parent or friend of a player, or a fan?

Take a minute and go to youtube.com. Type in "Adrian Peterson Fantasy Commercial" in the search engine. Click on the first entry that comes up.

No, wait.

Get the kids away from the computer first. Get 'em out of the room, actually.

What you will see is more frightening than anything that will knock on your front door on Halloween.

Well, Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable lasted long enough so that no matter what happens to him viz. the legal system, he'll still have it better than Jim Zorn.

Sometimes you can't really appreciate how incompetent the Browns are until you see them in the flesh, and though the semi-annual appointment with the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday proved reliably that Cleveland's NFL entry is again comically bad, it was hard not to notice that the officials were funnier.

Capsule previews for Week 6 around the NFL. All times Eastern.

SUNDAY:

Cleveland Browns (1-4) at Pittsburgh Steelers (3-2), 1 p.m.

The Browns have lost 11 consecutive games to the Steelers and 17 of 18 overall. The only more numbing stat is this: They have not scored an offensive TD in nine of their past 11 games.

Prediction: Steelers, 30-6.

There's a reason the Miami Dolphins are enjoying so much more success with their Wildcat formation than everyone else in the NFL.

Actually, there are three reasons.

Ronnie Brown.

Ricky Williams.

Tony Sparano.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is the John Elway of this generation.