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Winningest NFL QB of all time.

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Brett Favre. :woot: All you haters, go suck your thumb and cry somewhere else. :stan:
 
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Honors and awards

* Favre has won the Associated Press's MVP Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award three times, all in consecutive years (1995, 1996, and 1997; the last shared with Barry Sanders).
* In 1999, he was ranked number 82 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players. In 2005, TSN published another special feature honoring the 50 Greatest Quarterbacks. With his career statistics considerably augmented, Favre was ranked number 4, behind Johnny Unitas, Joe Montana and John Elway, and just ahead of previous Packer quarterback legend Bart Starr.
* Favre has been selected to play in the Pro Bowl eight times in his career.
* A 6-time All-Pro selection.
* Favre was named to the NFL 1990s All-Decade Team.
* Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle declared November 29, 2004 as Brett Favre Day to honor Favre's 200th consecutive NFL regular season start. That night, the Packers defeated the St. Louis Rams on Monday Night Football.
* Men's Health Magazine voted Favre the "Toughest Person in America" in 2003.
* Established the 'Brett Favre Fourward Foundation’ in 1996; in conjunction with his annual golf tournament, celebrity softball game and fundraising dinners, foundation has donated more than $2 million to charities in his home state of Mississippi as well as to those in his adopted state of Wisconsin.

Records and milestones


Favre currently possesses a number of NFL records:

* Most career pass completions: 5,073
* Most career regular season wins by a starting quarterback, with 149 , Favre's overall record is 149-90
* Most career points by a quarterback, with 2,580
* Most consecutive seasons with 20 or more touchdown passes: 12 (1994-2005)
* Most consecutive seasons with 30 or more touchdown passes: 5 (1994-1998) For perspective, only five other quarterbacks in NFL history have recorded at least two consecutive 30-touchdown passing seasons in their careers: Steve Bartkowski, Dan Fouts, Dan Marino, Jeff Garcia, Y.A. Tittle.
* Most seasons with 30 or more touchdown passes: 8 (1994-1998, 2001, 2003-2004)
* Most seasons leading the league in touchdown passes: 4 (1995-1997,2003)
* Most consecutive 3,000+ yards passing seasons: 15 (1992-2006)
* Most consecutive 300+ completion seasons: 15 (1992-2006)
* Most consecutive AP NFL MVP awards: 3 (1995, 1996, 1997)
* Most consecutive starts by a quarterback: 239 (259 including playoffs)
* Longest touchdown pass: 99 yards (to Robert Brooks, 1995)(tied with several others)

From 2002 to 2004, Favre threw a touchdown pass in 36 consecutive games, the second longest streak ever behind Johnny Unitas' 47.

Favre continues to close in on several NFL career records. As of the end of Week 2 of the 2007 NFL season, Favre stands at:

* Second all-time in career passing touchdowns, with 417 (Marino, 420)
* Second all-time in career passing yards, with 57,992 (Marino, 61,361)
* Second all-time in career pass attempts, with 8,303 (Marino, 8,358)
* Second all-time in single stadium passing yards, with 25,971 (Elway, 27,889)
* Second all-time in career interceptions thrown by a quarterback, with 275 (George Blanda, 277)
* Second all-time in career record and wins by a starting quarterback regular season and playoffs combined, at 160-99 (Elway, 162-90-1)
* Second all-time in career games at the quarterback position, with 243 (Fran Tarkenton, 246) Earl Morrall, 255 and George Blanda, 340 played more games, but most of their games were as kickers only.
* Second all-time in most career 20 touchdown seasons by a quarterback, with 12 (Marino, 13)
* Third all-time in career starts by a quarterback, with 239 (Marino, 147-93; Tarkenton, 125-109-6 Both had 240)
* Third all-time in career consecutive starts by an NFL player, with 239 (Mick Tingelhoff, 240; Jim Marshall, 270)

In addition, Favre owns a number of team records, having printed his name into almost every passing category in the annals of Green Bay Packers history.

Consecutive starts

Considered the Iron Man of the NFL, Favre is one of two NFL players to have started every game his team has played over the past 15-year period (the other being punter Jeff Feagles.[3] Brett Favre is currently in first place for consecutive NFL games started by a quarterback. During the first 200 straight games started by Favre, 178 other quarterbacks started in the NFL, eleven of them being back-ups to Favre at one point.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Favre
 
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I went to a the Packers/Lions game last year in Green Bay, I gotta say I have never seen ANY city support their team like they support the Packers. That's what those people live for. It was a great time! Favre looks way better than he did a year or two ago. I gotta admit, he is pretty damn good:rock:
 
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