Talk:Brett Favre

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Maintainability issues

One problem with a low critical mass is that articles like this become dated far too quickly. 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

Favre warming up before the Green Bay Packers vs. Philadelphia Eagles game; September 9, 2007, at Lambeau Field

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:

  • Consecutive starts as a quarterback: 285 (309 including playoffs)[5][6]
  • Consecutive starts as a position player: 285 [7]
  • Career regular-season victories by a starting quarterback: 181 (Regular-season record: 181–104)[5]
  • 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[8][9]
  • Career passing yards: 69,329[8]
  • Career pass completions: 6,083[5][10]
  • Career pass attempts: 9,811[11][5][12]
  • Career interceptions thrown: 317[8][13]
  • 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[14]
  • Career games with at least four touchdown passes: 23[15]
  • 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)[16]
  • Career playoff pass completions: 481[17]
  • Career playoff pass attempts: 791[17]
  • Career playoff passing yards: 5,855[17]
  • (2nd) Career playoff passing touchdowns: 44[17] (Montana, 45)[18]
  • 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.[19][20]

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.[21] 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. Most recently, he set the team record for consecutive completions with 20 on November 22, 2007, against the Detroit Lions.[22]

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.[23] He is currently in first place for the 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.[24] 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,[25][26] 12 of them being back-ups to Favre at one point.[23] Among his former backups are: Don Majkowski, Ty Detmer, Kurt Warner, Mark Brunell, Steve Bono, Doug Pederson, Matt Hasselbeck, Danny Wuerffel, 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".[27]

In 2009, Favre surpassed Jim Marshall for starts at any position with his record-breaking 271st start as a quarterback as the Vikings played the Lions.[28][29][30]

  1. ↑ Brett Favre Career Notes. ESPN.com (2007-08-01). Retrieved on 2009-03-12.
  2. ↑ Most Pro Bowls, By Position. Packers.com (2006-12-20). Retrieved on 2006-12-20.
  3. ↑ Brett Favre statistics. Pro Football Reference. Retrieved on 2008-11-15.
  4. ↑ 1990's All-Decade Team. NFL.com (2008-11-15). Retrieved on 2008-11-15.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named favrewatch
  6. ↑ "Career Games Started Leaders", Pro-Football-Reference.com
  7. ↑ Mike Florio (26 November 2009). Favre's losing track of all the records he's setting.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Brett Favre Career Stats. profootballreference.com. Retrieved on 2009-10-07.
  9. ↑ Leaderboard: Passing TD. profootballreference.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.
  10. ↑ Leaderboard:Completions. profootballreference.com. Retrieved on 2009-10-07.
  11. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named nfl stats
  12. ↑ Leaderboard: Pass attempts. profootballreference.com. Retrieved on 2009-10-07.
  13. ↑ This dog has had his day. coldhardfootballfacts.com (2009-10-07). Retrieved on 2009-10-07.
  14. ↑ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. ESPN.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-23.
  15. ↑ "Favre sets NFL mark before leaving early", NFL.com
  16. ↑ AP MVP winners. DatabaseFootball.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Favre's statistics at www.packers.com.. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
  18. ↑ Pro Football Hall of Fame Joe Montana Career tab. profootballhof.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-26.
  19. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named BeatAllTeams
  20. ↑ Dave Campbell (2009-09-06). Favre takes it to the Packers: Vikings win 30–23. Associated Press. Retrieved on 2009-09-06.
  21. ↑ "NFL Records, NFL.com
  22. ↑ Favre, Packers hold off Lions. NFL.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-22.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 D'Amato, Gary. 200 reasons to admire Favre, JSOnline.com, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2004-11-28. Retrieved on 2007-07-26.
  24. ↑ Craig, Mark. Brett Favre, ageless wonder, Star Tribune, 2008-01-15. Retrieved on 2008-01-16.
  25. ↑ Hanisch, Jeff. Favre tracker: Packers QB claims passing records in 2007, USA Today, 2007-12-31. Retrieved on 2008-01-04.
  26. ↑ Packers QB Brett Favre Announces Retirement. Green Bay Packers (2008-03-06). Retrieved on 2008-03-06.
  27. ↑ Iron Man. www.profootballhof.com (2004-11-30). Retrieved on 2007-11-28.
  28. ↑ Favre makes milestone start as Vikes top Lions. Fox Sports on MSN (2009-09-20). Retrieved on 2009-09-20.
  29. ↑ Lage, Larry (2009-09-20). Favre sets NFL record with 271st start in a row. Associated Press. Retrieved on 2009-09-20.
  30. ↑ Judd Zulgad and Chip Scoggins (2009-09-20). Favre's 271st consecutive start sets record. StarTribune.com. Retrieved on 2009-09-20.
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