Friday, December 2, 2011

Brett Favre

        Brett Favre was a great quarterback who played for the Packers from 1992 to 2007.  He had many great accomplishments such as going to the Super Bowl with the Packers for Super Bowl XXXI and Super Bowl XXXII, and winning Super Bowl XXXI. He also is the only player to win the AP Most Valuable Player three consecutive times, which was in 1995, 1996, and 1997.  He has led his teams to eight division championships as well.  He won the NFC Player of the year five times, and was the NFC Champion two times.
        In his early years, he played football for his high school, Hancock North Central.  There her played as  quarterback, lineman, strong safety, placekicker and punter.  For college, he went to Southern Miss and played quarterback for the Golden Eagles.  During his senior year there, he was in a near-fatal car accident where he lost control of his car, flipped three times and crashed into a tree. In order to play again, he had to get 30 inches of his small intestine removed.
        For his first year as a professional in 1991, he played for the Atlanta Falcons.  Then, he switched to the Green Bay Packers in 1992 and played there up until 2007.  During those years, he was known as one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history.  He lead the Packers to a Super Bowl victory in 1997. After playing for the Packers untill he was years 38 old, he finally decided that it was time to retire.
        After he had just officially retired, he claimed that he wanted to play again.  However, Green Bay had already signed in their new quarterback, Aaron Rodgers.  So he then played for the New York Jets in 2008, then switched again to play for the Minnesota Vikings (which are one of the Packers' main rivals) for the 2009 and 2010 season.  After that, he retired for real.
        Over all, Brett Favre was a Green Bay Packers Legend who made the Packers a better team.

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