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Brett Lorenzo Favre (/ f ɑːr v / ⓘ FARV; born October 10, 1969) is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 20 seasons, primarily with the Green Bay Packers. Favre had 321 consecutive starts from 1992 to 2010, including 297 regular season games, the most in league history. He ...
Bart Starr won five NFL Championships as the Packers' starting quarterback during most of the 1960s. Brett Favre started 275 straight games (regular and postseason combined) for the Packers from 1992 to 2007. Aaron Rodgers' regular season winning percentage (.661) is the highest of any Packers quarterback (minimum 10 starts).
On August 6, 2008, it was announced that Brett Favre was traded to the New York Jets for a conditional draft pick in 2009. [109] The Packers began their 2008 season with their 2005 first-round draft pick, quarterback Aaron Rodgers, under center, as the first QB other than Favre to start for the Packers in 16 years. Rodgers played well in his ...
The Green Bay Packers traded a first-round draft pick for Favre after that season, and the rest -- including one Super Bowl championship, 11 Pro Bowl appearances, over 6,000 pass completions and ...
Ultimately, the Packers traded Favre to the New York Jets, who he played one year for before retiring again. The Jets released Favre from their roster shortly after, when Favre un-retired once again.
Rodgers was stuck in the middle of Brett Favre's indecision about retirement and got the Packers' starting job when Favre was traded to the Jets. Then 15 years later, the cycle repeats itself.
Favre made the AFC Pro Bowl and led the Jets to a 9–7 record, while the Packers fell to 6–10 including losing 5 of their last 6 games of the season. Besides the obvious controversy concerning the Brett Favre unretirement and trade, Thompson was considerably criticized by his decision in the 2008 offseason to waive punter Jon Ryan. After an ...
After one of his many dalliances with retirement, he was traded to the Jets in 2008, leading to the ascendance of Aaron Rodgers with the Packers. In 2009, Favre joined the NFC North-rival ...