Brett Favre’s career was predictably unpredictable
Brett Favre was equal parts desperado and virtuoso during his 20-year NFL career that was predicated on taking big risks in the game’s biggest moments.
That style never paid off more handsomely than when he hit Andre Rison with a long TD toss on an audible that kick-started his lone Super Bowl victory.
Favre’s unorthodox style made for one of the most exciting, colorful careers the league has seen.
“Brett Favre’s in the top five as far as the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game,” suggested Hall of Famer John Elway, who led Denver past Favre’s Packers for the first of his two Super Bowl triumphs in the late 1990s.
The punctilious Peyton Manning would break many of his NFL records after Favre’s retirement in 2011, but Favre still has the longest starts streak, as well as records for most completions, attempts — and interceptions — while ranking second to Manning in TD throws and passing yards.
Former Green Bay safety LeRoy Butler said the Packers’ defense takes the bulk of the blame for the 286 interceptions during Favre’s time in Green Bay because we told him, ‘Be yourself.
On and off the field, in the locker room and on the bus rides to the stadium, on the flights back.