Brett Favre
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Position (s): Quarterback |
Jersey number (s): 4 |
| born on October 10, 1969 | |
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| Active : 1991 - 2010 | |
| NFL Draft : 1991 / Round: 2 / Pick: 33 | |
| College : Southern Mississippi | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Touchdowns - interceptions | 508-336 |
| Thrown yards | 71,838 |
| Quarterback rating | 86.3 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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Brett Lorenzo Favre (* 10. October 1969 in Gulfport , Mississippi ) is a former American American football poker players on the position of quarterbacks in the National Football League (NFL). From September 20, 1992 to January 20, 2008, he played every game of the Green Bay Packers as starting quarterback , won the Super Bowl XXXI with them and was voted Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times in a row .
He announced in 2008 and 2009 that he would retire from his football career, but reversed that decision both times. In January 2011, Favre finally submitted the resignation papers to the NFL and ended his career.
Career
Brett Favre played college football at the University of Southern Mississippi before 1991 by the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL Draft was selected in the second round as the 33rd player. In Atlanta he got the role of a reserve quarterback, in which he did not exactly excel with two interceptions from four pass attempts. The longtime manager of the Green Bay Packers , Ron Wolf , wanted to draft Favre as then assistant to the general manager of the New York Jets already in the previous year, but the Falcons selected him with the draft right before the jets. As the new general manager of the Packers, Wolf exchanged Favre on February 10, 1992 for the draft right in the first round of the 1992 NFL Draft. With this pick , the Falcons chose Tony Smith .
In the second game of the 1992 season, Favre replaced quarterback Don Majkowski at a 0-17 halftime deficit. Favre's first pass was repulsed by a defender, after which Favre caught it himself for seven yards of space. The game ended 31: 3. Favre was then able to convince on the next match day when he was substituted on after an injury by Majkowski. The game against the Cincinnati Bengals was tough for the Packers, but with only 1:07 minutes remaining, they got the chance to make up the 17:23 deficit. 13 seconds before the end, Favre Kitrick found Taylor with a touchdown pass and the Packers won the game with the extra point.
From this third day of the 1992 season until his retirement after the 2007 season, Brett Favre played 253 regular season games (excluding preseason and play-offs ) in a row as starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. In total, he played 297 games in a row from the start, which is a record in the NFL.
Favre's career start with the Packers was not smooth, although he always played from the start despite several injuries. In May 1996, at a press conference, he admitted his dependence on the pain reliever vicodin or hydrocodone and immediately afterwards went into a 46-day rehab. After failing three times in the play-offs, he led the Green Bay Packers to their most successful season in 30 years after this personal crisis. The Packers won at the end of the 1996 season to Super Bowl XXXI against the New England Patriots with 35:21. With Brett Favre, the Green Bay Packers played in the 1997 season for the second time in a row (for the fourth time since Super Bowl I) for the Super Bowl, but lost to the Denver Broncos .
Brett Favre had the toughest moment of his career on December 22, 2003 when he played a Monday night game against the Oakland Raiders . The day before, his father, who had been his high school coach and lifelong advisor, passed away. Despite this sad fact, Favre decided to play the game. He threw four touchdown passes in the first half and 399 yards throughout the game . He then won the title of best offensive player of the week in the NFC . After his father's funeral, he returned to the Packers in time to secure the division profit of the NFC-North with a win against the Denver Broncos.
In the 2007 season Favre succeeded with the Green Bay Packers after a few mediocre years almost the return to the Super Bowl. In the NFC Championship Game, however, the Packers just lost in overtime to the eventual Super Bowl winner, the New York Giants . After that final season in 2007, in which Brett Favre broke almost all important career records for quarterbacks, he decided against continuing his successful career.
By the end of the 2007 season, he threw passes for 61,655 yards and scored 442 touchdown passes. He was the first quarterback to gain so much space and score so many touchdowns with successful passes. Favre holds the career records for most wins, attempts and successful passes and also the negative record for most interceptions. Brett Favre announced his retirement from the NFL on March 3, 2008, according to his agent James Cook, but he revised it again in July. On August 7, 2008, he signed a one-year contract over 12 million US dollars for the New York Jets . On February 11, 2009, Brett Favre announced that he wanted to finally end his career. He revoked this through a two-year contract for a maximum of 25 million US dollars with the Minnesota Vikings on August 18, 2009 again. In his first season with the Vikings, Favre had a quarterback rating of 107.2 - the best rating of his career - and led his team into the NFC Championship Game, which was lost to the New Orleans Saints in overtime . Due to an ankle injury, which was the subject of the NFL bounty scandal , Favre had to undergo surgery after the season and again left it open whether he would play another year. In August 2010 he announced his return to the Vikings. However, the season went bad for Favre and the Vikings, at the end of the regular season there were six wins against ten defeats, which meant that the play-offs were missed. On January 17, Brett Favre announced his final withdrawal and filed his resignation papers with the NFL.
Personal records
Before Bart Starr, he holds numerous Packers team records and a variety of personal NFL career records , including in the following categories:
- fourth most thrown touchdowns with 508 after Drew Brees , Tom Brady and Peyton Manning .
- most pass attempts: 10,169
- with 71,838 the fourth most passing yards after Drew Brees, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning
Other records:
- 298 consecutive games as starter (including play-offs 321),
- 65 games with at least three touchdowns
- 3 AP NFL MVP Awards (1995, 1996, 1997)
- Favre is the first quarterback to beat all 32 NFL teams at least once. On the first day of the 2014 season , Peyton Manning managed to achieve this record as second quarterback with a 31:24 win by the Denver Broncos over the Indianapolis Colts .
However, Favre also holds some negative records:
- 336 thrown interceptions.
- with 30 thrown interceptions in the playoffs the second most after Tom Brady.
- with 11 lost play-off games as Starting QB the second most after Peyton Manning.
Honors
Favre won the NFL Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) for three consecutive years (1995 to 1997) , but in 1997 he had to share the title with Barry Sanders . He was elected to the Pro Bowl eleven times .
Favre reached the play-offs eleven times with the Packers , won a division title seven times, the NFC Championship Game twice and the Super Bowl XXXI .
In 2007 he was by the magazine Sports Illustrated for Athlete of the Year chosen.
A street in Green Bay was named after him during his career . He runs a restaurant there.
On July 18, 2015, Favre was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame .
On November 26, 2015, Favres # 4 was officially suspended from the Green Bay Packers' Thanksgiving game against the Chicago Bears at halftime.
On February 7, 2016, it was announced that Favre would be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame that year . His election to the football hall of fame took place five years after the end of his career, i.e. at the first attempt.
Others
Brett Favre had in 1998 a cameo appearance in the film comedy There's Something About Mary alongside Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller . He was Mary's ex-boyfriend and played himself.
Web links
- Favre in the nndb (English)
- Official website
- Player profile on NFL.com
- Player profile at the Vikings
Individual evidence
- ↑ Foxsports.com Favre files resignation papers (English).
- ^ Tom Silverstein: Trading places. Wolf hits the jackpot in deal for Favre. In: www.jsonline.com. Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, September 24, 2005, archived from the original September 29, 2007 ; Retrieved January 21, 2014 (English): "Wolf, then an assistant to New York Jets general manager Dick Steinberg, had Favre ranked as the No. 1 player in the 1991 draft and tried desperately to move into the first round to select him (the Jets didn't have a first-round pick). "
- ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on October 10, 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
- ↑ NFL.com Favre was picked up by the Jets. Accessed August 8, 2008.
- ↑ NFL News NFL star Favre retires
- ↑ Favre returns again ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (in English). Accessed August 19, 2009.
- ↑ NFL.com Brett Favre | # 4 | QB. Accessed February 3, 201.
- ↑ [1] Favre was taken up by the Jets (English). Accessed August 8, 2008.
- ^ Bounty scandal of the NFL In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 7, 2012. Retrieved on January 3, 2013.
- ↑ football-austria.com Favre submits withdrawal papers.
- ^ Brett Favre Career Stats . profootballreference.com. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ "Career Games Started Leaders" , Pro-Football-Reference.com
- ↑ Favre completes 20 straight passes as Packers light up Lions . ESPN.com. Retrieved November 23, 2007.
- ^ AP MVP winners . DatabaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on September 3, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 7, 2007.
- ↑ Favre throws for 271 yards, three touchdowns in Vikings' win . espn.go.com. Retrieved October 6, 2008.
- ↑ Sam Farmer: Peyton Manning, Broncos fend off Colts in 31-24 victory. Peyton Manning has reached a rare milestone. In: latimes.com. LA Times, September 7, 2014, accessed September 8, 2014 : "With a 31-24 victory over the Indianapolis Colts, he joined Brett Favre as one of only two quarterbacks to beat all 32 NFL teams."
- ^ NFL Passes Intercepted Career Leaders. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
- ^ NFL Passes Intercepted Career Playoffs Leaders. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ NFL Postseason Quarterback Win / Loss Records | The Football Database. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000502466/article/brett-favre-inducted-into-packers-hall-of-fame
- ↑ honor for brett favre sport1.de, accessed on November 27, 2015
- ↑ favre comes in hall of fame sport1.de, accessed on February 7, 2016
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Favre, Brett |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Favre, Brett Lorenzo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gulfport , Mississippi |