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.

College

Favre received only one scholarship offer after high school. It was from Southern Miss, which wanted him to play defensive back. Favre wanted to play under center 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 season. 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. Going around a bend a few tenths of a mile from his parents' house, Favre was going quite a bit over the speed limit when his car went out of control. It flipped 3 times in the air and 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 (her) was, will I be able to play football again?", Favre recalled later. Doctors would 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."

Related Topics:
Southern Miss - Tulane - September 19 - 1987 - Florida State - September 2 - 1989 - July 14 - 1990 - Small intestine - September 8 - Alabama - Gene Stallings

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