Mr. Amazing
My coworker, a Chicago-raised Bears fan even has sympathy for us. He let me get in one "Bears Still Suck" for good measure.
Tony Romo, et al will attempt to duplicate Favre's on-field style, but there will never, ever be another. Those who attempt to imitate should keep in mind that Favre's integrity was part of the overall package. You know, make the world a better place and all.
Also, when you see fans wearing pink replica jerseys to support their teams...the wearing of the pink was started by none other than Brett's better half, Deanna Favre, as a fund raiser for breast cancer.
It goes without saying that everyone's a little sad in Green Bay. Tiny, little Green Bay, not NY or San Fran...where the NFL got started way back when with the early Chicago-Green Bay matchups.
I hope John Madden is doing ok.
Peace and Love to the Favres! Enjoy your days of golfing, horticulture and deer hunting, Brett. And, pass some good karma along to Aaron Rodgers, please. :)
Oct. 10, 1969: Brett Lorenzo Favre is born in Gulfport, Miss, the second child of Irvin and Bonita Favre. He weighs 9 pounds 15 ounces at birth. "The doctor said he was ready for a hamburger," his mother said. Brett is of French and Choctaw ancestry; one of his paternal grandparents was a Choctaw Native American. He grows up in Kiln, Miss., a town of 7,500 which has no stop lights or paved roads.
1973: At a Little League baseball game, Favre, four years old, is hit in the head with a baseball bat. “He didn’t even cry,” his father said. “The doctor said it hurt the woman who took him to the hospital more than it hurt Brett.”
1976: Favre, seven years old, meets Deanna Tynes in catechism.
1979: In the fifth grade, Favre first plays quarterback, in Pee Wee youth football.
1982: Favre, an eighth-grader, officially begins dating Deanna. He attends Hancock North Central High, and is the second-string quarterback on the varsity football team even though he's only 13. His brother Scott, who is a junior, is first string. The coach is their father, Irvin. He also plays baseball, and leads the varsity in batting all five seasons of high school.
1984: Favre plays several different positions (strong safety, punter, placekicker) but only occasionally quarterback - his father preferring the run-oriented wishbone offense.
1987: Favre signs with Southern Mississippi, the only Division I-A college to offer him a full scholarship. He follows his brother Scott, a quarterback, and father, who had been a pitcher there. But the team puts him at defensive back, and Favre is seventh on the quarterback depth chart.
Sept. 19, 1987: Favre, now the second-string quarterback, comes off the bench at halftime to lead Southern Mississippi to a 31-24 win over Tulane.
Dec. 23, 1988: Favre leads the Golden Eagles to a 38-18 win over UTEP in the Independence Bowl.
Feb. 6. 1989: Deanna gives birth to a girl, Brittany. She and Brett are not married.
Sept. 2, 1989: Southern Miss upsets sixth-ranked Florida State 30-26, with Favre driving the Golden Eagles to the winning score on a touchdown pass with 23 seconds remaining.
July 14, 1990: Favre is involved in a near-fatal car accident less then a mile from his parents' house, losing control of his car, which flips three times in the air and crashes into a tree. His brother smashes a window with a golf club to extricate him. Doctors later remove 30 inches of Favre's small intestine.
Sept. 8, 1990: Favre returns to the starting lineup to lead Southern Miss over Alabama, 31-27. He ends his college career two months later as the school leader in passing yards (8,193), pass attempts and completion (656-1,234), passing percentage (53.0) and touchdown passes (55).
April 20, 1991: Favre is selected in the second round (33rd pick overall) in the NFL draft by the Atlanta Falcons.
Feb. 10, 1992: Favre is traded to Green Bay for a No. 1 draft pick. In his two games with the Falcons, he threw only five passes, with two interceptions.
Sept. 20, 1992: Favre takes over for the injured Don Majikowski and leads the Packers to a 24-23 comeback victory in the fourth quarter, on a 92-yard drive that ends with a 35-yard touchdown pass with 13 seconds remaining. Coach Mike Holmgren names Favre the starter.
Feb. 7, 1993: Favre earns a trip to the Pro Bowl. At 23, the youngest quarterback ever to win the honor.
Jan. 8, 1994: Favre leads the Packers to their first playoff victory in 12 years, a 28-24 win over the Detroit Lions.
December, 1994: Favre sets Packers records with 363 completions and 33 touchdown passes. Green Bay makes the playoffs again.
Jan. 1, 1996: Favre wins the NFL MVP after throwing for 38 touchdown passes and 4,413 passing yards, both team records.
Jan. 14, 1996: Green Bay loses to Dallas in the NFC Championship Game, 38-27; it's the third year in a row that the Cowboys have eliminated the Packers in the postseason.
May 14, 1996: Favre enters an NFL substance abuse program for addiction to painkillers. While in a Green Bay hospital recovering from an ankle injury in Feb., he had suffered a seizure.
July 14, 1996: Brett and Deanna get married, 20 years after having first met. They had already been together for 14 years, and married at the insistence of their daughter, Brittany.
Dec. 30, 1996: Favre wins second straight NFL MVP, having thrown for an NFC record 39 touchdowns.
Jan. 26, 1997: Favre leads the Packers to a 35-21 win over the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, throwing for 2,465 yards and two touchdowns. Tom Brady, a sophomore at Michigan, watches the game on TV.
July 25, 1997: Favre signs a seven-year deal with the Packers, reportedly worth $48 million, including a $12 million signing bonus.
Dec. 27, 1997: Favre becomes the NFL's first three-time MVP recipient when he and Lions running back Barry Sanders are named co-winners of the award.
Jan. 25, 1998: The Packers lose the Super Bowl to the Denver Broncos 31-24 in San Diego, a Favre throws for 256 yards, three touchdowns and one interception.
December 1998: Favre throws for 4,212 yards and 347 completions to lead the NFL, and his 30 touchdown passes gives him five straight seasons with 30 or more, allowing him to overtake Dan Marino for the NFL record.
July 13, 1999: Brett and Deanna have their second child, Breleigh.
Nov. 7, 1999: Favre starts his 117th consecutive regular-season game at quarterback, breaking Ron Jaworski's NFL record.
Dec. 24, 2000: Favre reaches the 30,000-yard plateau in his 126th game, the third-fastest in NFL history.
Feb. 28, 2001: Favre signs a 10-year, $100 million contract with the Packers. He says in an interview, however, that he doesn't see himself playing beyond 2006, when he will turn 37.
Jan. 20, 2002: Green Bay suffers a 45-17 loss to the St. Louis Rams in the divisional playoffs, as Favre throws a career-high six interceptions, an NFL postseason record.
Dec. 21, 2003: Irvin Favre goes off the road and into a ditch near Kiln, and is pronounced dead less than an hour later, the victim of a heart attack. The accident is not far from the spot where his son nearly lost his life 13 years earlier.
Jan. 9, 2005: Green Bay loses to Minnesota, 31-17, in the NFC wild-card game. Since their Super Bowl victory in 1997, the Packers are 1-4 in the playoffs - their one win a 33-27 victory over Mike Holmgren's Seattle Seahawks in the 2004 NFC wild-card game.
December 2005: The Packers finish 4-12 in the NFC North. Although he passes for more than 3,000 yards for a record 14th consecutive season, Favre also leads the league in interceptions with 29. He also starts his 221st consecutive regular-season game, just 16 games shy of the NFL record, 270, held by the Vikings' Jim Marshall. Favre mulls retirement.
March 27, 2006: Packers coach Mike McCarthy says that it's becoming urgent that Favre announce his plans. The Milwaukee State Journal reports on March 10 that Favre "will decide soon." Says McCarthy: "I thought soon was soon. And (now) it needs to be real soon."
Jan. 20, 2008: Favre and Packers lose to eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants 23-20 in NFC championship game.
March 4, 2008: It is learned that Favre will retire.
From MSNBC.com
Tony Romo, et al will attempt to duplicate Favre's on-field style, but there will never, ever be another. Those who attempt to imitate should keep in mind that Favre's integrity was part of the overall package. You know, make the world a better place and all.
Also, when you see fans wearing pink replica jerseys to support their teams...the wearing of the pink was started by none other than Brett's better half, Deanna Favre, as a fund raiser for breast cancer.
It goes without saying that everyone's a little sad in Green Bay. Tiny, little Green Bay, not NY or San Fran...where the NFL got started way back when with the early Chicago-Green Bay matchups.
I hope John Madden is doing ok.
Peace and Love to the Favres! Enjoy your days of golfing, horticulture and deer hunting, Brett. And, pass some good karma along to Aaron Rodgers, please. :)
Oct. 10, 1969: Brett Lorenzo Favre is born in Gulfport, Miss, the second child of Irvin and Bonita Favre. He weighs 9 pounds 15 ounces at birth. "The doctor said he was ready for a hamburger," his mother said. Brett is of French and Choctaw ancestry; one of his paternal grandparents was a Choctaw Native American. He grows up in Kiln, Miss., a town of 7,500 which has no stop lights or paved roads.
1973: At a Little League baseball game, Favre, four years old, is hit in the head with a baseball bat. “He didn’t even cry,” his father said. “The doctor said it hurt the woman who took him to the hospital more than it hurt Brett.”
1976: Favre, seven years old, meets Deanna Tynes in catechism.
1979: In the fifth grade, Favre first plays quarterback, in Pee Wee youth football.
1982: Favre, an eighth-grader, officially begins dating Deanna. He attends Hancock North Central High, and is the second-string quarterback on the varsity football team even though he's only 13. His brother Scott, who is a junior, is first string. The coach is their father, Irvin. He also plays baseball, and leads the varsity in batting all five seasons of high school.
1984: Favre plays several different positions (strong safety, punter, placekicker) but only occasionally quarterback - his father preferring the run-oriented wishbone offense.
1987: Favre signs with Southern Mississippi, the only Division I-A college to offer him a full scholarship. He follows his brother Scott, a quarterback, and father, who had been a pitcher there. But the team puts him at defensive back, and Favre is seventh on the quarterback depth chart.
Sept. 19, 1987: Favre, now the second-string quarterback, comes off the bench at halftime to lead Southern Mississippi to a 31-24 win over Tulane.
Dec. 23, 1988: Favre leads the Golden Eagles to a 38-18 win over UTEP in the Independence Bowl.
Feb. 6. 1989: Deanna gives birth to a girl, Brittany. She and Brett are not married.
Sept. 2, 1989: Southern Miss upsets sixth-ranked Florida State 30-26, with Favre driving the Golden Eagles to the winning score on a touchdown pass with 23 seconds remaining.
July 14, 1990: Favre is involved in a near-fatal car accident less then a mile from his parents' house, losing control of his car, which flips three times in the air and crashes into a tree. His brother smashes a window with a golf club to extricate him. Doctors later remove 30 inches of Favre's small intestine.
Sept. 8, 1990: Favre returns to the starting lineup to lead Southern Miss over Alabama, 31-27. He ends his college career two months later as the school leader in passing yards (8,193), pass attempts and completion (656-1,234), passing percentage (53.0) and touchdown passes (55).
April 20, 1991: Favre is selected in the second round (33rd pick overall) in the NFL draft by the Atlanta Falcons.
Feb. 10, 1992: Favre is traded to Green Bay for a No. 1 draft pick. In his two games with the Falcons, he threw only five passes, with two interceptions.
Sept. 20, 1992: Favre takes over for the injured Don Majikowski and leads the Packers to a 24-23 comeback victory in the fourth quarter, on a 92-yard drive that ends with a 35-yard touchdown pass with 13 seconds remaining. Coach Mike Holmgren names Favre the starter.
Feb. 7, 1993: Favre earns a trip to the Pro Bowl. At 23, the youngest quarterback ever to win the honor.
Jan. 8, 1994: Favre leads the Packers to their first playoff victory in 12 years, a 28-24 win over the Detroit Lions.
December, 1994: Favre sets Packers records with 363 completions and 33 touchdown passes. Green Bay makes the playoffs again.
Jan. 1, 1996: Favre wins the NFL MVP after throwing for 38 touchdown passes and 4,413 passing yards, both team records.
Jan. 14, 1996: Green Bay loses to Dallas in the NFC Championship Game, 38-27; it's the third year in a row that the Cowboys have eliminated the Packers in the postseason.
May 14, 1996: Favre enters an NFL substance abuse program for addiction to painkillers. While in a Green Bay hospital recovering from an ankle injury in Feb., he had suffered a seizure.
July 14, 1996: Brett and Deanna get married, 20 years after having first met. They had already been together for 14 years, and married at the insistence of their daughter, Brittany.
Dec. 30, 1996: Favre wins second straight NFL MVP, having thrown for an NFC record 39 touchdowns.
Jan. 26, 1997: Favre leads the Packers to a 35-21 win over the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, throwing for 2,465 yards and two touchdowns. Tom Brady, a sophomore at Michigan, watches the game on TV.
July 25, 1997: Favre signs a seven-year deal with the Packers, reportedly worth $48 million, including a $12 million signing bonus.
Dec. 27, 1997: Favre becomes the NFL's first three-time MVP recipient when he and Lions running back Barry Sanders are named co-winners of the award.
Jan. 25, 1998: The Packers lose the Super Bowl to the Denver Broncos 31-24 in San Diego, a Favre throws for 256 yards, three touchdowns and one interception.
December 1998: Favre throws for 4,212 yards and 347 completions to lead the NFL, and his 30 touchdown passes gives him five straight seasons with 30 or more, allowing him to overtake Dan Marino for the NFL record.
July 13, 1999: Brett and Deanna have their second child, Breleigh.
Nov. 7, 1999: Favre starts his 117th consecutive regular-season game at quarterback, breaking Ron Jaworski's NFL record.
Dec. 24, 2000: Favre reaches the 30,000-yard plateau in his 126th game, the third-fastest in NFL history.
Feb. 28, 2001: Favre signs a 10-year, $100 million contract with the Packers. He says in an interview, however, that he doesn't see himself playing beyond 2006, when he will turn 37.
Jan. 20, 2002: Green Bay suffers a 45-17 loss to the St. Louis Rams in the divisional playoffs, as Favre throws a career-high six interceptions, an NFL postseason record.
Dec. 21, 2003: Irvin Favre goes off the road and into a ditch near Kiln, and is pronounced dead less than an hour later, the victim of a heart attack. The accident is not far from the spot where his son nearly lost his life 13 years earlier.
Jan. 9, 2005: Green Bay loses to Minnesota, 31-17, in the NFC wild-card game. Since their Super Bowl victory in 1997, the Packers are 1-4 in the playoffs - their one win a 33-27 victory over Mike Holmgren's Seattle Seahawks in the 2004 NFC wild-card game.
December 2005: The Packers finish 4-12 in the NFC North. Although he passes for more than 3,000 yards for a record 14th consecutive season, Favre also leads the league in interceptions with 29. He also starts his 221st consecutive regular-season game, just 16 games shy of the NFL record, 270, held by the Vikings' Jim Marshall. Favre mulls retirement.
March 27, 2006: Packers coach Mike McCarthy says that it's becoming urgent that Favre announce his plans. The Milwaukee State Journal reports on March 10 that Favre "will decide soon." Says McCarthy: "I thought soon was soon. And (now) it needs to be real soon."
Jan. 20, 2008: Favre and Packers lose to eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants 23-20 in NFC championship game.
March 4, 2008: It is learned that Favre will retire.
From MSNBC.com