Birth Name
Brett Lorenzo Favre
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Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)
Mini Biography
Until the start of the 08 Season, Brett Favre was the Green Bay Packers starting Quarterback since joining the team in 1992. He joins Joe Montana in being the only players to win back-to-back MVP awards. Favre led the Packers to three consecutive playoff appearances (for the first time since the 1960s) including a Superbowl win in 1996. Raised in Kiln, Mississippi, Favre was both a baseball and a football star lettering in both sports. On July 14, 1996, Favre married long-time girlfriend Deanna Tynes after a 12-year courtship.
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Mini Biography
Traded to the Green Bay Packers before the beginning of the 1992 NFL season, Favre was an unknown backup until starting quarterback Don Majkowski turned his ankle in week 3 against the Cincinatti Bengals. Already trailing, Favre led the Packers to a thrilling comeback, culminated in a long touchdown pass to Kittrick Taylor as time expired. Since the following game, he has never missed a start as the Packers' quarterback. He was the league's MVP award following the 1995 season, however he announced in the spring of 1996 that he was addicted to the painkiller Vicodin, and voluntarily entered the NFL substance abuse program. He returned for the fall season and single-handedly made the Packers the league's #1 offense. He won his second MVP award, and the team won the Super Bowl. In 1997, the Packers lost in the Super Bowl to the Denver Broncos, but Favre won his unprecedented 3rd MVP award, this season sharing it with Detroit running back Barry Sanders. As of the end of the 2004 regular season, Favre ranks 3rd in NFL history in passing yardage (49,734), attempts (7004), wins (135), 2nd in completions (4,306), TD passes (376), and consecutive games with a touchdown pass (36). His 253 consecutive starts (275 playoff) is by far the most by an NFL quarterback, and is second among all positions, all-time (Jim Marshall, 282). Established the 'Brett Favre Forward Foundation' in 1996; over the past nine years, in conjunction with his annual golf tournament, celebrity softball game and fund-raising dinners, foundation has donated in excess of $1.5 million to charities in his home state of Mississippi as well as to those in his adopted state of Wisconsin. Favre retired from the NFL on March 4, 2008, at the age of 38.
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Spouse
Deanna Favre (14 June 1996 - present) 2 children
Trade Mark
#4
Legendary Toughness
Cannon Arm
Gun Slinger
Trivia
NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers)
Became the first NFL player ever to be named the MVP three times. (27 December 1997)
Daughters, Brittany (b. 6 February 1989) and Breleigh (b. 13 July 1999).
Earned five letters in baseball and three in football at Hancock North Central High School (Kiln, MS). His father, Irvin, was his coach.
Entered the Menninger Clinic (Topeka, Kansas) for addiction to painkillers. (May 1996)
Selected 33rd overall of the NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons. On 10 February 1992, the Falcons sent Favre to the Green Bay Packers for the Packers's #1 pick in the upcoming draft. Falcons coach Jerry Glanville called Favre a "train wreck" after he missed the team picture during training camp because he had partied too hard the night before. The quarterback had 2 interceptions and 0 completions in 5 attempts in his short stint with Atlanta. (20 April 1991)
In one of the most courageous performances in sports history, reeling from the sudden death of his beloved father, Irvin, one day earlier, he threw for 399 yards and 4 touchdowns in a 41-7 rout of the defending AFC champion Oakland Raiders on Monday Night Football. [December 22, 2003]
One the lowest points of his career came in 1991 when he was with the Falcons and he missed the team photo. When asked where he was, Brett, who had been drinking the night before, made up an excuse that he was stuck in traffic behind a train wreck. Falcons coach Jerry Glanville shot back, "Son, you are a train wreck!" The following February, Brett was traded to the Packer for a first round draft choice.
Won the Super Bowl with the Green Bay Packers in 1997.
Was Men's Journal's 'Toughest Man in America' in 2004. |
