MANKATO (AP) — If Brett Favre returns to Minnesota for a 20th NFL season, it almost certainly won’t be before the Vikings’ 12-day stay in this college town comes to an end.

That seems to be just fine with the rest of the team.

The Vikings started reporting for training camp Thursday evening to begin what is the scourge of life in the NFL — sweating through two-a-day practices in the stifling August heat and humidity. Yet nearly every veteran who was available to the media said they had no problem with Favre skipping training camp like he did last season.

While much of the rest of the country seems to have tired of Favre’s annual waffling, the guys who matter most — his teammates — don’t seem to mind a bit.

“There’s been a lot of talk about players being treated differently,” center John Sullivan said. “Well, guys aren’t the same. Brett’s been playing for 20 years. He’s earned some leeway. We know that if he comes back he’ll be 100 percent committed to the team. We’d love to have him. Everybody knows that.

“I think I speak for most of the guys when I say nobody’s upset Brett is in the situation that he’s in.”

Favre is working out at his home in Hattiesburg, Miss., still rehabbing a surgically repaired ankle that was injured in Minnesota’s overtime loss to the New Orleans Saints in the NFC title game.