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Brett Favre (pronounced "Färv") (born October 10, 1969 in Gulfport, Mississippi) has been the starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers American football team in the National Football League since 1992. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. He is NFL's only three time MVP (1995-97), and has proven himself to be both a most durable and loyal professional athlete as he is the only player in the history of modern professional sports to start every single game played by his team for nearly sixteen straight seasons. He is of French and Choctaw ancestry; one of his paternal grandparents was a Choctaw Native American .

Kiln

Favre went to Hancock North Central High School in Kiln, Mississippi (pronounced Kill). Kiln, a small town, had no stop lights or paved roads. He played quarterback, lineman, strong safety, placekicker and punter in a primarily option, run-oriented offense coached by his father, Irvin Favre. Irvin Favre said that he knew his son had a great arm but also knew that the school was blessed with good running backs. So, for the three years Brett was on the team, Irvin Favre lead a run-oriented offense, called the wishbone. "If I had wanted to showcase my son, I could have let him throw," Irvin Favre said later. "But I thought I did a good job in that what I was doing was in the best interest of the team."

Irvin Favre would later consider his son's Super Bowl victory in New Orleans against the New England Patriots among the best events of his life.

College

Favre received only one scholarship offer after high school. It was from nearby Southern Miss—which wanted him to play defensive back. Favre wanted to play under center instead and clawed his way up from the seventh string to the backup job and then to the starting position just three games into his freshman year. He took over in the second half against Tulane on September 19, 1987 and led USM to a comeback victory with two touchdown passes. Favre led the Golden Eagles to a big upset of Florida State, then ranked sixth in the nation, September 2, 1989. Favre capped off a six-and-a-half-minute drive with the game-winning touchdown pass with 23 seconds remaining.

Favre's college career was turned upside down on July 14, 1990, when he was in a near-fatal car accident. When going around a bend a few tenths of a mile from his parents' house, Favre lost control of his car. It flipped three times in the air, crashed into a tree and got stuck there. Only after his brother smashed the window with a golf club could he be evacuated to the hospital. On the way there, inside of the ambulance, his mother was sitting with him. “All I kept asking was ‘Will I be able to play football again?’” Favre recalled later. Doctors would later remove 30 inches of Favre's small intestine. On September 8, Favre led Southern Miss to a comeback victory over Alabama. Alabama coach Gene Stallings said, “You can call it a miracle or a legend or whatever you want to. I just know that on that day, Brett Favre was larger than life.”

Coincidentally, on Sunday, December 21, 2003 Irvin Favre ran into a ditch near Kiln, where years earlier Brett Favre nearly died. Said Sgt. Joe Gazzo of the Mississippi State Highway Patrol: "It didn't appear that the accident was serious enough to cause him to be unconscious, so that leads us to believe that a medical condition was what caused him to go off the road." Irvin Favre went off the road at 5:23 p.m., according to eye-witness reports, and was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m.

An autopsy done the following day showed that Irvin Favre died of a sudden heart attack.

Atlanta

Favre was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the second round, 33rd overall in the 1991 NFL Draft. In Atlanta, he was a third-string quarterback with unremarkable numbers and an affinity for partying. He got into repeated clashes with head coach Jerry Glanville. Favre's very first pass in the NFL went for a touchdown . . . for the other team. His most notable accomplishments, aside from going 0 for 5 passing with two interceptions that year, were missing the team photo (he'd been out the night before), for which he was fined, and making a $100 bet with Jerry Glanville that he could throw the ball into the upperdeck of Fulton County Stadium. Favre won the bet and Jerry Glanville paid him the money. The Packers general manager Ron Wolf traded a first round pick (17th overall) for Favre during the following offseason. (Wolf, while general manager of the New York Jets, had intended to take Favre in the 1991 NFL draft, but Favre was taken by the Falcons on the pick previous to the Jets.)

The trade is regarded as one of the most lopsided in NFL history, but nearly didn't happen. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and other sources, during the physical after the trade, Favre was diagnosed with avascular necrosis, the same degenerative hip condition that ended Bo Jackson's career, and doctors recommended he be failed. Wolf overruled them and the Packers would never be the same.

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