October 10, 1969 – Brett Favre played in the National Football League for 20 highly productive seasons, where he was a 3-time NFL Player of the Year and made it into 11 Pro Bowls! Do we need to say anything more?
Of course we do! Favre attended Southern Mississippi University, where he was a four-year starter at quarterback. The Atlanta Falcons later picked Brett in the 2nd Round and 33rd overall of the 1991 NFL Draft, according to his bio on profootballhof.com. Favre saw minimal action as a Falcon, and so the following season, he was traded to the Green Bay Packers for a first-round draft pick.
When starter Don Majikowski was injured in Week 3, Brett Favre became the starting QB of the Pack and never looked back. He started that season on a torrid pace that saw him go over 3000 plus yards of passing in 18 straight seasons in the NFL.
In 1995 and the two following seasons, he took the Packers to the NFC Championship game and won Super Bowl XXXI. Brett played with the Packers through the 2007 season and then a season with the New York Jets before playing out his final two years with the Minnesota Vikings. Like wine, Favre seemed to get better as 2009 may have been his best season ever, as he finished the year with a 107.2 QB rating and tossed for
4,202 yards.
Brett Favre was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.
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