In between his controversial arrival – Wolf received heat for giving up a first-round pick for him – in 1992 and his messy departure in the summer of 2008, Favre took the Packers on a roller-coaster ride of exhilarating wins, painful losses, out-of-the-blue big plays, inexplicable turnovers and personal battles ranging from his addiction to painkillers to his father’s unexpected passing the day before a game in Oakland. They laughed and they cried, and they tried to sleep.
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Favre, 46, opened his speech by joking about another comeback.
“To have a victor like that they won the Super Bowl with Brett I was at every home game preseason postseason and even the return to title town”, said Packers fan Nick Brandl.
Favre, the final speaker of the evening, was greeted with a long standing ovation after he was introduced. They saved the best for last.
“Whatever the thing was, that focus, concentration, competitiveness, he could just step up a notch when you needed it”, Madden said.
He was presented via video by Hall of Fame coach John Madden.
“I worked extremely hard to get to this point”, said the Colts’ first-round draft choice in 1996. How he met Deanna (it was the night of that Saints game), and how she continues to inspire him. How proud he is of his two daughters, son-in-law and grandkids.
“I may wake up Sunday morning and decide he may not play”, Pagano said.
WHY THEM? After the Hall of Fame class is announced the day before the Super Bowl, the National Football League figures out which teams will be the most attractive for the game that accompanies the inductions.
“The best a football player can do is exhaust his passion, go out on his terms, and on the way having fun kicking people’s butts with his brothers”, Greene said.
Brett Favre’s love of football never wavered.
Who would’ve thought, regardless of whether it was the preseason, regular season or postseason, that a game in the National Football League would be postponed, let alone canceled, due to the terrible state of the playing field?
Avenatti has a history of battling the National Football League in court.
The three-time MVP retired as the NFL’s all-time leading passer with 6,300 completions, 10,169 attempts, 71,838 yards and 508 TDs. Not bad for a kid whose only scholarship offer came from Southern Miss. “From Atlanta to Minnesota, 20 years, make no doubt about it, I will be remembered as a Packer.”. He followed Marvin Harrison, Orlando Pace, Dick Stanfel, Kevin Greene, Ken Stabler, Edward Debartolo Jr. and Tony Dungy.
His pure joy and unbridled exuberance in the aftermath of that game were the same exact emotions legions of Packers fans were feeling at that instance. Just listen to this [chant of “Go, Pack, go”].
“Love them while you can”. He was inducted into Packers Hall of Fame last summer and his retired No. 4 was unveiled on the Lambeau Field faade on Thanksgiving night a year ago, with one his idols, Bart Starr in the house.
“Packer fans are pretty special”, Favre said.
This year’s corner piece induction was Brett Favre, a legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback who helped the team win Super Bowl XXXI in 1997.
Not that even at this moment Favre could not find a way to make light of the way he struggled with his retirement.
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Thompson was in the crowd Saturday and led a contingent of Packers that included quarterback Aaron Rodgers and kicker Mason Crosby, who are the only two current Packers who played with Favre, and coach Mike McCarthy. “All of this excitement has me wanting to call (ESPN reporter) Ed Werder and spread the word again”.
