Brett Favre was born October 10, 1969, in Gulfport, Mississippi. He played college football for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles for four years. He was selected in the second round of the 1991 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons. Favre became the Packers’ starting quarterback in the fourth game of the 1992 NFL season and started every game through the 2007 season. He is the only player to win the Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award three consecutive times, doing so from 1995 to 1997. In 2010, he became the first NFL quarterback to pass for 500 touchdowns, throw for 70,000 yards, complete 6,000 passes, and attempt 10,000 throws in a single season.
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Brett Favre was born October 10, 1969, in Gulfport, Mississippi. He played college football for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles for four years. He was selected in the second round of the 1991 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons. Favre became the Packers’ starting quarterback in the fourth game of the 1992 NFL season and started every game through the 2007 season. He is the only player to win the Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award three consecutive times, doing so from 1995 to 1997. At the time of his retirement, he was the NFL’s all-time leader in passing yards, passing touchdowns, and quarterback wins; all three records have since been broken. He led teams to eight division championships, five NFC Championship Games, and two Super Bowl appearances. He and the Packers won Super Bowl XXXI over the New England Patriots. In 2008, he played for the New York Jets before joining the Minnesota Vikings in 2009. In 2010, he became the first NFL quarterback to pass for 500 touchdowns, throw for 70,000 yards, complete 6,000 passes, and attempt 10,000 throws in a single season. In 2016, Favre was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016. His father, Irvin Favre, was the head coach of the Hancock North Central High School football team in Hancock County, Mississippi, where he played baseball and football. One of his ancestors is Simon Favre,. a Creole and an influential figure in Spanish West Florida in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; Brett descends from Simon’s Choctaw Native American mistress, Pistikiokonay, and thus his grandfather was affiliated with the Choctaws.
Brett was the second of four children and attended Hancock NorthCentral High School. He earned five varsity letters and played quarterback, lineman, strong safety, placekicker, and punter in a primarily option, run-oriented offense coached by his father. In his freshman year at Southern Mississippi, he led the Golden Eagles to an upset of Florida State on September 2, 1989, with six touchdown passes. He started ten games during his freshman season and won six of them, including a come-from-behind victory with two touchdown passes against Tulane on September 19, 1989. In the second half of the third game, he took over as the starting quarterback and led the team to a win over Tulane. In that game, despite suffering a hangover and vomiting during the warm-ups, he capped the win with a two-pass, two-yard touchdown pass. He went on to play for the University of Southern Mississippi in 1989 and 1990. He also played in the 1991 and 1992 Super Bowls with the Green Bay Packers and the Falcons. He has 11 Pro Bowl invitations is the fourth most among quarterbacks in NFL history. He made an NFL-record 297 consecutive starts, 321 including the playoffs, and is one of only six quarterbacks to have won the award as well as the Super Bowl in the same season. His final two seasons with the Vikings were in 2009 and 2010.
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