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== Maintainability issues ==
One problem with a low critical mass is that articles like this become dated far too quickly. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 15:50, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
== Latest on acheivements ==
I don't want to cut and paste it in but this is where wikipedia is right now.
===Honors and awards===
[[Image:Warmupsfavre.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Favre warming up before the Green Bay Packers vs. Philadelphia Eagles game; September 9, 2007, at Lambeau Field]]
* Won the [[Associated Press]] [[NFL Most Valuable Player Award|Most Valuable Player]] (MVP) Award three times, all in consecutive years (1995, 1996, and 1997; the last shared with [[Barry Sanders]]).<ref name="Brett Favre Career Notes">{{cite web| url = http://static.espn.go.com/nfl/profiles/notes/1025.html | title = Brett Favre Career Notes| publisher = ESPN.com| date = 2007-08-01| accessdate = 2009-03-12}}</ref>
* Was selected to play in the [[Pro Bowl]] eleven times in his career.<ref name="Packers Pro Bowl">{{cite web| url = http://www.packers.com/history/fast_facts/most_pro_bowls_by_position/ | title = Most Pro Bowls, By Position| publisher = Packers.com| date = 2006-12-20| accessdate = 2006-12-20}}</ref>
* Was a six-time First- or Second-team [[All-Pro]] selection.<ref name="Favre jelling with his new teammates
">{{cite web| url = http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FavrBr00.htm | title = Brett Favre statistics| publisher = Pro Football Reference| date = | accessdate = 2008-11-15}}</ref>
* Was named to the [[NFL 1990s All-Decade Team]].<ref name="1990's All-Decade Team">{{cite web| url = http://www.nfl.com/history/legends/1990s | title = 1990's All-Decade Team| publisher = NFL.com| date = 2008-11-15| accessdate = 2008-11-15}}</ref>
===Records and milestones===
As of the end of the [[2009 NFL season]], Favre owned or shared most of the well-known NFL career records, including:
* [[Most consecutive starts by a quarterback (NFL)|Consecutive starts as a quarterback]]: 285 (309 including playoffs)<ref name="favrewatch" /><ref>[http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/gs_career.htm "Career Games Started Leaders"], Pro-Football-Reference.com</ref>
* Consecutive starts as a position player: 285 <ref name='Favres losing track'>{{Cite web |url=http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/11/26/favre-losing-track-of-all-the-records-hes-setting/ |title=Favre's losing track of all the records he's setting |date=26 November 2009 |author=Mike Florio}}</ref>
* [[Most wins by a starting quarterback (NFL)|Career regular-season victories by a starting quarterback]]: 181 (Regular-season record: 181–104)<ref name="favrewatch" />
* Wins by a starting quarterback in one stadium: 90, Lambeau Field (including once as a Minnesota Viking)
* Wins by a starting quarterback against a single opponent: 27, Detroit Lions (18–0 in home games)
* Career passing touchdowns: 497<ref name="Favre Career Stats">{{cite web| url = http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/FavrBr00.htm | title = Brett Favre Career Stats| publisher = profootballreference.com| accessdate = 2009-10-07}}</ref><ref name="TD leaderboard">{{cite web | url = http://www.pro-football-reference.com/misc/ptd.htm | title = Leaderboard: Passing TD | publisher = profootballreference.com | accessdate = 2007-02-26}}</ref>
* Career passing yards: 69,329<ref name="Favre Career Stats" />
* Career pass completions: 6,083<ref name="favrewatch" /><ref name="Completions Leaderboard">{{cite web| url = http://profootballreference.com/misc/cmp.htm | title = Leaderboard:Completions| publisher = profootballreference.com| accessdate = 2009-10-07}}</ref>
* Career pass attempts: 9,811<ref name="nfl stats" /><ref name="favrewatch" /><ref name="Attempts Leaderboard">{{cite web | url = http://www.pro-football-reference.com/misc/att.htm | title = Leaderboard: Pass attempts | publisher = profootballreference.com | accessdate = 2009-10-07}}</ref>
* Career interceptions thrown: 317<ref name="Favre Career Stats" /><ref name="Interceptions Thrown">{{Cite web | url = http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/Article.php?Page=764 | title = This dog has had his day | publisher = coldhardfootballfacts.com | date = 2009-10-07 | accessdate = 2009-10-07}}</ref>
* Career games with at least one touchdown pass: 241
* Career games with at least two touchdown passes: 157
* Career games with at least three touchdown passes: 71<ref name="Favre career 3TD games">{{cite web| url = http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=271122008 | Favre completes 20 straight passes as Packers light up Lions| publisher = ESPN.com| accessdate = 2007-11-23}}</ref>
* Career games with at least four touchdown passes: 23<ref>[http://blogs.nfl.com/2009/11/22/favre-sets-nfl-mark-before-leaving-earl/ "Favre sets NFL mark before leaving early"], NFL.com</ref>
* Career games with at least 200 passing yards: 202
* Career games with at least 225 passing yards: 165
* Career games with at least 250 passing yards: 139
* Career games with at least 275 passing yards: 100
* Career games with at least 300 passing yards: 61 (Dan Marino is 1st with 63)
* Touchdown passes of 80+ yards: 9
* Touchdown passes of 70+ yards: 15
* Touchdown passes of 20+ yards: 165
* 1 yard touchdown passes: 37
* 1 yard touchdown passes, passer/receiver combination: 8, Brett Favre/Bubba Franks
* Career games with at least 30 completions: 24 (Peyton Manning is 2nd with 18)
* Career games with at least 20 completions: 185 (Peyton Manning is 2nd with 138)
* Completions in a game played on a Friday: 30; 12/24/2004
* Seasons with at least 30 touchdown passes: 9
* Consecutive seasons with at least 30 touchdown passes: 5
* Seasons with at least 3,000 passing yards: 18
* Consecutive seasons with at least 3,000 passing yards: 18
* Seasons with at least 300 completions: 18
* Consecutive seasons with at least 300 completions: 18
* Brett Favre & Sterling Sharpe tied Dan Marino & Mark Clayton's record for most passer/receiver touchdown combinations in a season in 1994: 18-broken by [[Tom Brady]] and [[Randy Moss]](23) in 2007.
* Most consecutive AP NFL MVP awards: 3 (1995–1997)<ref name="AP MVP">{{cite web| url = http://www.databasefootball.com/awards/award.htm?a=APMVP | title = AP MVP winners| publisher = DatabaseFootball.com| accessdate = 2007-02-07}}</ref>
* Career playoff pass completions: '''481'''<ref name="Favre Stats" />
* Career playoff pass attempts: '''791'''<ref name="Favre Stats">{{cite web|url=http://www.packers.com/history/brett_favre_bio/|title=Favre's statistics at www.packers.com.|accessdate=2007-05-08}}</ref>
* Career playoff passing yards: '''5,855'''<ref name="Favre Stats" />
* (2nd) Career playoff passing touchdowns: '''44'''<ref name="Favre Stats" /> (Montana, 45)<ref name = "Montana">{{Cite web | url = http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=154 | title = Pro Football Hall of Fame Joe Montana Career tab | publisher = profootballhof.com| accessdate = 2007-07-26}}</ref>
* Career playoff interceptions thrown: '''30'''
* Career playoff losses as starting QB: '''11'''
* (5th) Career playoff wins as starting QB: '''13''' (Joe Montana, 16; Tom Brady, 14; Terry Bradshaw, 14; John Elway, 14)
* Games played by a starting quarterback against one opponent in a calendar year: 5 games against the Detroit Lions in 1994; 1/2/94(game 16 of the 1993 season), 1/8/94(playoff game), 11/6/94, 12/4/94, 12/31/94(playoff game)
Favre is the only quarterback to have led a team to victory over all thirty-two teams in the league since the NFL first expanded to 32 franchises in 2002.<ref name="BeatAllTeams" /><ref name="Teams Defeated">{{Cite web | url = http://www.wtop.com/?nid=119&sid=1778634 | title = Favre takes it to the Packers: Vikings win 30–23 | publisher = Associated Press | date = 2009-09-06 | author = Dave Campbell | accessdate = 2009-09-06}}</ref>
Favre is one of four quarterbacks to lead the league in touchdown passes four times. The others are [[Johnny Unitas]], [[Len Dawson]] and [[Steve Young (American football)|Steve Young]].<ref>[http://www.nfl.com/history/randf/records/indiv/passing "NFL Records], NFL.com</ref> In addition, Favre owns a number of team records, having printed his name into almost every passing category in the annals of [[History of the Green Bay Packers|Green Bay Packers history]]. Most recently, he set the team record for consecutive completions with 20 on November 22, 2007, against the [[Detroit Lions]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter;jsessionid=63CAED1718F1DFF87E9F8B275C049EE3?season=2007&week=REG12&game_id=29355 | title = Favre, Packers hold off Lions | publisher = NFL.com| accessdate = 2007-11-22}}</ref>
===Consecutive starts streak===
Since first being named the starter of the Green Bay Packers before playing the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] on September 27, 1992, Brett Favre has never missed a game.<ref name="200reasons">{{cite news| url=http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=279432 | title=200 reasons to admire Favre| last=D'Amato| first=Gary | work=JSOnline.com | publisher=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]| date=2004-11-28| accessdate = 2007-07-26}}</ref> He is currently in first place for the [[most consecutive starts by a quarterback (NFL)|most consecutive starts by a quarterback in the NFL]] and one of only five quarterbacks to have started over 100 consecutive games in NFL history. He failed to finish a game due to injury on only six occasions since taking control of the Packers as quarterback.<ref name="craig">{{cite news | url=http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/13785576.html| work=Star Tribune | title=Brett Favre, ageless wonder | first=Mark | last=Craig| date=2008-01-15 | accessdate=2008-01-16}}</ref> Besides Favre, there is only one other active streak of 100 or more games among quarterbacks, that of [[Peyton Manning]]. Since the beginning of Favre's consecutive start streak, 212 other quarterbacks have started in the NFL,<ref name="favretracker">{{cite news | url=http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/packers/2007-favre-tracker.htm | publisher=USA Today | title=Favre tracker: Packers QB claims passing records in 2007 | first=Jeff | last=Hanisch | date=2007-12-31 | accessdate=2008-01-04}}</ref><ref name="favretribute">{{cite web | url=http://www.packers.com/history/brett_favre_tribute/ | publisher=Green Bay Packers | title=Packers QB Brett Favre Announces Retirement | first= | last= | date=2008-03-06 | accessdate=2008-03-06}}</ref> 12 of them being back-ups to Favre at one point.<ref name="200reasons" /> Among his former backups are: [[Don Majkowski]], [[Ty Detmer]], [[Kurt Warner]], [[Mark Brunell]], [[Steve Bono]], [[Doug Pederson]], [[Matt Hasselbeck]], [[Danny Wuerffel]], [[Aaron Brooks (American football)|Aaron Brooks]], [[J.T. O'Sullivan]], and current Packers starter [[Aaron Rodgers]]. Two veteran backups to Favre never started another NFL game: [[Jim McMahon]], and [[T.J. Rubley]]. The consecutive starts streak is widely considered one of the most notable streaks in sports, so much so that the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] has as an exhibit displaying the jersey Favre wore during his record breaking 117th consecutive start as a quarterback, and a section of their website devoted to what the Hall of Fame calls an "Iron Man".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.jsp?release_id=1345 | title=Iron Man | work=www.profootballhof.com | date=2004-11-30 | accessdate=2007-11-28}}</ref>
In 2009, Favre surpassed [[Jim Marshall (American football)|Jim Marshall]] for starts at any position with his record-breaking 271st start as a quarterback as the Vikings played the Lions.<ref name="FOX-271st">{{cite web | url=http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/recap?gameId=20090920008 | author= | title=Favre makes milestone start as Vikes top Lions | work=Fox Sports on MSN | date=2009-09-20 | accessdate=2009-09-20}}</ref><ref name="AP-271st">{{cite web |title=Favre sets NFL record with 271st start in a row | first=Larry | last=Lage |url=http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FBN_VIKINGS_FAVRES_RECORD?SITE=MAFIT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT |date=2009-09-20 |publisher=Associated Press |accessdate=2009-09-20}}</ref><ref name="strib-271st">{{cite web | url=http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/59949227.html | title=Favre's 271st consecutive start sets record | author= Judd Zulgad and Chip Scoggins | work=StarTribune.com | date=2009-09-20 | accessdate=2009-09-20}}</ref>

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