50 Fun Facts About Brett Favre

Brett Favre plays an ex-boyfriend of which actress's character in There's Something About Mary?

Cameron Diaz played Mary, and Favre was only the third choice for the cameo. The Farrelly brothers had first approached two other star quarterbacks.

Brett Favre's 421st touchdown pass in 2007 broke the NFL career record held by which quarterback?

Dan Marino had held the record with 420. A year earlier Favre had become only the second quarterback, after the same man, to reach 400.

Which quarterback backed up Brett Favre for three seasons before taking over in Green Bay in 2008?

Aaron Rodgers slid to the 24th pick of the 2005 draft, where Green Bay took him as Favre's eventual replacement.

Brett Favre retired with the NFL career record, at 336, for which statistic no quarterback wants?

Interceptions were the price of Favre's fearless style, which also produced 508 touchdown passes.

Which pass rusher set the NFL single-season sack record in 2001 when Brett Favre slid down?

Michael Strahan reached 22.5 sacks on the play, and critics have long accused Favre of going down on purpose to hand him the record.

Brett Favre shared his third straight NFL MVP award in 1997 with which 2,000-yard running back?

Barry Sanders ran for 2,053 yards that season, while Favre became the first player to win the award three years in a row.

Brett Favre has worked as a commercial spokesman for Nike, Sears and which brand of blue jeans?

Wrangler was one of many brands Favre endorsed, on a list that also took in MasterCard, Remington, Prilosec and Sensodyne.

Texts published in 2022 tied Brett Favre to welfare money spent on a new facility for which sport?

Volleyball was the sport Favre's daughter played at his alma mater, where $5 million in welfare funds went toward a new arena. Favre has denied wrongdoing.

Testifying before Congress in 2024, Brett Favre revealed he had been diagnosed with which condition?

Parkinson's disease was the diagnosis Favre disclosed, years after saying memory lapses made him fear the lasting effects of his many concussions.

Brett Favre gained which family title that the NFL knew of no other active player holding?

Grandfather became Favre's new title when his elder daughter, Brittany, gave birth while he was still starting NFL games.

Brett Favre has said he is proudest of which of his NFL records, built over more than 18 seasons?

Consecutive starts is the record Favre prizes most: 297 regular-season games in a row, or 321 counting the playoffs, without missing one.

Brett Favre won his only championship by beating which team 35–21 in Super Bowl XXXI?

The New England Patriots lost at the Louisiana Superdome, a short drive from Favre's hometown, as he threw two touchdown passes and ran for a third.

Which underdog beat Brett Favre's heavily favored Packers 31–24 in Super Bowl XXXII?

The Denver Broncos were 11-point underdogs, and their win ended a run of 13 straight Super Bowl victories by NFC teams.

Which team drafted Brett Favre in the second round in 1991 but let him throw only four passes?

The Atlanta Falcons saw Favre complete none of those four passes, two of which were picked off, before trading him after a single season.

Which university, the only one to offer Brett Favre a scholarship, later retired his No. 4 jersey?

Southern Miss took Favre at an assistant coach's urging, and he began his freshman year as the seventh-string quarterback.

Brett Favre was born in Gulfport but raised in which Mississippi town where his father coached?

Kiln is where Favre's father, Irvin, coached the Hancock North Central High football team, and both of his parents taught in the county's schools.

After ending his first retirement in 2008, Brett Favre was traded by Green Bay to which team?

The New York Jets gave up a conditional fourth-round draft pick, and Favre started 8–3 for them before a torn biceps tendon wrecked the finish.

Which team did Brett Favre join in 2009 and lead to the NFC Championship Game at age 40?

The Minnesota Vikings got 33 touchdown passes from Favre, plus a win over Green Bay that made him the first quarterback to beat all 32 NFL franchises.

Which hurricane destroyed Brett Favre's family home shortly before an NFL season began?

Katrina wrecked the family home in late August 2005, though no relatives were hurt, and Favre chose to play on that season.

Which magazine named Brett Favre its Sportsman of the Year in 2007, his final season in Green Bay?

Sports Illustrated honored Favre in a year when, at 38, he took a 13–3 Packers team to overtime of the NFC Championship Game.

Brett Favre appeared in a Packers uniform on the cover of which video game series' 2009 edition?

Madden NFL 09 made Favre its first retired cover athlete, and he then un-retired and changed teams about five days before the game went on sale.

Brett Favre spent 46 days in rehab in 1996 for an addiction to which prescription painkiller?

Vicodin dependence became public after Favre had a seizure following ankle surgery, and he still won his second straight MVP award that season.

The day after his father died in 2003, Brett Favre threw for 399 yards against which team?

The Oakland Raiders gave up four touchdown passes before halftime of a 41–7 Monday night loss, and even their own fans applauded Favre.

Brett Favre's last playoff game was an overtime NFC Championship loss in January 2010 to which team?

The New Orleans Saints won 31–28 after picking off Favre late in regulation, and the heavy hits he took that day later drew bounty accusations.

Eight weeks after a near-fatal car crash, Brett Favre led his college team past which powerhouse?

Alabama lost 27–24 in 1990 to a quarterback who, after the crash, had needed surgeons to remove 30 inches of his small intestine.

Brett Favre earned a college teaching degree with an emphasis in which field?

Special education was his emphasis, a fitting choice for the son of two schoolteachers.

Brett Favre's college coaches first wanted him to play which position instead of quarterback?

Defensive back was the plan, but Favre insisted on quarterback and took over as the starter three games into his freshman season.

An ankle injury to which Packers starter in 1992 gave Brett Favre the job he kept for 16 seasons?

Don Majkowski, known as the Majik Man, tore an ankle ligament against Cincinnati, and Favre came off the bench to win it with a late touchdown pass.

Which coach sent Brett Favre in for an injured starter in 1992 and won Super Bowl XXXI with him?

Mike Holmgren is credited with molding Favre from a wild young passer into a three-time MVP.

Brett Favre threw two touchdown passes in Super Bowl XXXI, but which Packers teammate was named MVP?

Desmond Howard returned a kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown and became the first special teams player to be named Super Bowl MVP.

After Brett Favre's 1992 trade, a physical found the hip ailment that ended which star's NFL career?

Bo Jackson's career ended with avascular necrosis of the hip, and team doctors wanted to fail Favre's physical until the general manager overruled them.

Brett Favre's 149th win as a starter in 2007 passed which Hall of Famer for the quarterback record?

John Elway had retired with 148 regular-season wins, and Favre went on to finish his own career with 186.

Jeff Pearlman's 2016 Brett Favre biography takes which Old West nickname for a passer as its title?

Gunslinger became a bestseller, though Pearlman wrote it without interviewing Favre, relying instead on family members, teammates and coaches.

Which team knocked Brett Favre's Packers out of the playoffs three years running from 1993 to 1995?

The Dallas Cowboys beat Green Bay in two straight divisional rounds and then in the NFC Championship Game.

Brett Favre's NFL career ended in December 2010 with a concussion in a game against which team?

The Chicago Bears' Corey Wootton sacked Favre on a college field, used because the roof of his own team's dome had collapsed.

Brett Favre helped Oak Grove High School win a 2013 Mississippi state title in which coaching role?

Offensive coordinator was Favre's job for two seasons, and his first game on the staff ended in a 64–6 win.

Which carmaker's 2010 Super Bowl ad showed a gray-haired Brett Favre unable to decide on retirement?

Hyundai set the spot after the 2020 season, with a 50-year-old Favre accepting yet another MVP award and wavering about quitting.

Which ailing Packers legend came to Lambeau Field in 2015 for the retirement of Brett Favre's No. 4?

Bart Starr, then 81 and frail after strokes and a heart attack, made the trip to stand beside Favre on Thanksgiving night.

Brett Favre earned five varsity letters at Hancock North Central High in which sport?

Baseball came early for Favre, who was already starting for the high school team as an eighth-grader.

Which Packers general manager traded a first-round pick for the little-used Brett Favre in 1992?

Ron Wolf had wanted to draft Favre a year earlier while working for another team, only to see him taken one pick before his turn.

Which head coach said it would take a plane crash for him to put rookie Brett Favre into a game?

Jerry Glanville had opposed drafting Favre at all, and the rookie was traded away after one season spent mostly on the bench.

On Green Bay's second offensive play of Super Bowl XXXI, Brett Favre audibled and hit which receiver for a touchdown?

Andre Rison had joined Green Bay only late that season after Jacksonville cut him, and his 54-yard catch produced the game's first points.

Brett Favre's career highs of six touchdown passes and 446 yards both came against which team?

The Arizona Cardinals gave up the six scores in 2008 and the 446 yards in 2010, when Favre erased a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit and won in overtime.

Brett Favre's 271st straight start in 2009 broke the all-position record of which defensive end?

Jim Marshall had started 270 games in a row, and is also remembered for running a recovered fumble 66 yards the wrong way in 1964.

A collapsed stadium roof moved the 2010 game that ended Brett Favre's starting streak to which city?

Detroit's Ford Field hosted the relocated Monday game, but a sprained throwing shoulder kept Favre out after 297 straight regular-season starts.

Brett Favre co-owned a NASCAR Busch Series team for two seasons with which Cup champion driver?

Dale Jarrett launched the team with Favre in 1999, the same year the driver won his Winston Cup championship.

Through an ancestor in Spanish West Florida, Brett Favre has ties to which Native American nation?

Choctaw ties come through Pistikiokonay, the companion of his forebear Simon Favre, an influential Louisiana Creole in the colony around 1800.

Brett Favre seldom passed in high school because his father, the coach, ran which run-heavy offense?

Wishbone football suited the team's good running backs, so a college scout nearly left before he finally saw Favre cut loose a pass.

A last-second Terrell Owens catch ended Brett Favre's 1998 season in a playoff loss to which team?

The San Francisco 49ers won on Steve Young's throw with three seconds left, after Favre had put Green Bay ahead inside the final two minutes.

Brett Favre's first year as a starter helped which receiver set an NFL single-season catch record?

Sterling Sharpe caught 108 passes in 1992 to top Art Monk's mark, then broke his own record with 112 the following year.