Brett Favre retires as the holder of most of the career NFL quarterback performance records, including passing yards (61,655), passing attempts (8,758), passing completions (5,377), consecutive games started (253), games won as starting quarterback (160), and touchdown passes (442). Incredibly, Favre did not miss a start after replacing an injured Don Majkowski in the third game of the 1992 regular season.-Brett Favre’s Webiste
Brett Farve could have been a Dallas Cowboy-just as Micheal Jordan could have been a Dallas Maverick-but it didn’t work out that way. It’s hard to image Brett Favre in any uniform but Green Bay’s anyway, he was a great player and made the Green Bay Packers great as well.
The Green Bay vs Dallas game was big news this year, The Cowboys looked unstoppable as they rolled over the Packers while Favre had to stand on the sidelines and watch. Once the Cowboys preformed their usual end of the year collapse, we lost any chance of seeing a rematch between Tony Romo and Brett Favre. Farve and Romo can both say, at least they were beat by the team that would go on to win the Superbowl.
The NFL I grew up with had teams that looked pretty much the same from year to year. I watched Roger Staubach and had no doubt that he would be back as a Dallas Cowboy the next season. It was the same with Terry Bradshaw, Dan Marino, and all the other faces I grew up watching. You mention one of their names and you see their uniform-Brett Favre is the number 4 on a Green Bay jersey. This is kind of unusual these days. Players change teams all the time, so the story of Favre staying at Green Bay is pretty special. It’s also good that he is going out on his own terms, and not being forced out like Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman were by injuries.
So if this is the end of his playing days-The Packers will be just another team, and the NFL will be a little less exciting to watch. But sixteen years is long enough for this kind of work. So happy trails Brett, until we meet again.
