Today during Green Bay’s game at Minnesota,...

Today during Green Bay’s game at Minnesota, Packers quarterback Brett Favre probably will establish an NFL record for career touchdown passes. He and Dan Marino are currently tied with 420.

Greg Cote, at the bottom of his Friday column in the Miami Herald, wrote that this might be the biggest record in pro football, then added: “I mention it as the bottom of the column to symbolically mirror what a relative non-story it is nationally. Stats and records are the only area in which baseball clobbers the NFL.

“Barry Bonds besting Hank Aaron in all-time home runs would have been a major, riveting story with or without the steroid cloud adding controversy.

How can you pass on this story?

“But Favre about to break that deadlock with Dan Marino? A big deal in Green Bay, I’m sure. . . . Maybe big for a few minutes Sunday on CBS, where Marino now works.

“And a yawn across most of the country.”

Trivia time

Who is No. 3 behind Marino and Favre in career NFL touchdown passes?

Two-strike rule

Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times notes that, in the face of video evidence, former major leaguer Jose Offerman pleaded not guilty to attacking an opposing pitcher and catcher with his bat during a minor league game in Connecticut on Aug. 14.

Added Perry: “What, he’s going to claim he checked his swing?”

Wrong adjective

Fred Kirsch of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, on those powder blue and canary yellow uniforms worn by the Philadelphia Eagles last Sunday: “Those weren’t throwback jerseys. . . . Those were throw-up jerseys.”

Oops

A video that has become a hit on YouTube shows a sportscaster reporting the “great news” that injured Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett “is now moving his arms and legs.”

The accompanying video shows a man being wheeled into a courtroom in a wheelchair

and then kicking at law enforcement personnel and flailing his arms.

“That is not the right video,” the sportscaster informs his audience, who probably had already figured that out.

Secret to success

Cris Collinsworth, on HBO’s “Inside the NFL,” might have provided the reason for Randy Moss’ early season success with the New England Patriots.

“He’s fresh,” Collinsworth said. “He didn’t play the last two years in Oakland, so he’s healthy.”

Another viewpoint

Emmitt Smith isn’t quite ready to call Moss a team leader.

“You cannot change the stripes of a leopard,” he said on ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown.”

Something smells

Headline in the Chicago Sun-Times, after four deer hunters filed a lawsuit claiming a manufacturer’s scent-masking clothing doesn’t work: “Odor in the court.”

Trivia answer

Fran Tarkenton with 342. Tarkenton played 18 seasons -- 13 with Minnesota, 1961-66 and 1972-78, and five with the New York Giants, 1967-71.

And finally

Paul Brown Stadium officials are facing an unusual problem. They want permission to shoot down pigeons that are pooping on the heads of Bengals fans -- and in their food and beer -- during games.

Eric Brown, managing director of the stadium, sent a letter asking the city to allow stadium employees to kill the birds with an air-powered pellet rifle.

The Associated Press reports that Brown says no shooting would take place on game days.

Well, that’s comforting.

larry.stewart@latimes.com