Since backup Brett Hundley is out with an injury, it seems likely that Joe Callahan and Marquise Williams will be under center for most of the game against the Colts, according to Wood.
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Brett Powers and his dad Dave will travel from the Green Bay area to Canton, Ohio to witness Brett Favre’s enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
“It’s pretty awesome, pretty stressful, pretty tiring, but it’s all good”, Favre said during a brief interview that was part of the live broadcast. “When I watched guys like him playing the game growing up, it was like, that’s how I’ll play at the running back position”.
Most of Brett Favre’s legend was of course forged as a member of the Green Bay Packers but his two years with the Vikings gave him an opportunity to burnish that legend and burnish it he did.
“Time and perspective heals all, and everything happens for a reason, like I’ve always said”. This year, the 2016 Pro Football Hall of Fame class boasts one of the strongest yet and features some of the greatest influences on the game in history. But getting inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame was never on her radar. But by the time Favre was done, everyone knew how to say his name. “I just tell them when I get there I don’t want to leave until you feel comfortable with where I’m going”.
Interestingly enough, I’m nearly positive that line was uttered at least a year prior to Favre’s final pass as a Packer – an interception – and before the bitter divorce that followed.
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“From that point on, I spent four or five days a week talking to Ken Herock trying to somehow massage it…so first of all, we don’t lose (Favre) and secondly, this can be an eventuality”. So, too, was Favre’s arm strength. I just dreamed to play. “To still be able to the throw the ball with that much power was incredible to me”. His 20-year National Football League career helped revitalize a Green Bay Packers franchise that was on life support. Favre was fully aware that his presence would make a huge difference to an offense that included a young Adrian Peterson.
