Brett Favre

Brett Lorenzo Favre (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. Many consider Favre one of the greatest players in the history of the NFL; he is all but guaranteed a spot in the Football Hall of Fame.

Atlanta

Favre was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the second round, 33rd overall in the 1991 NFL Draft. In Atlanta, he was a second-string quarterback with unremarkable numbers and an affinity for partying. He got into repeated clashes with head coach Jerry Glanville. His most notable accomplishment, aside from going 0 for 5 passing with two interceptions that year, was missing the team photo (he'd been out the night before), for which he was fined. Packers general manager Ron Wolf traded a first round pick (17th Overall) for Favre during the following offseason. The trade is regarded as one of the most lopsided in NFL history, but nearly didn't happen. (On September 5, 2005, in an episode of its The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... series, ESPN Classic examines why the Falcons cannot be blamed for trading Favre.) 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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Atlanta Falcons - 1991 - NFL Draft - Jerry Glanville - General manager - Ron Wolf - September 5 - 2005 - The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... - ESPN Classic - Avascular necrosis - Hip - Bo Jackson

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