Actually, he’ll be remembered as a guy who
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spent 16 years with the Packers, made it to the Super Bowl twice and won it once, secured three NFL MVP awards, engaged in public angst pretty much every year from 2002 through 2008 regarding whether he’d retire, prompted the Packers to use a first-round pick on Favre’s eventual replacement in 2005 due to the annual should-I-stay-or-should-I-go? routine, took the bait in February 2008 when the Packers pressed Favre for a decision at a time on the calendar when they knew he’d be more likely to call it quits, decided in July he still wanted to play, clumsily tried to force his way back onto the team, stubbornly tried to engineer a path to Minnesota, eventually accepted a trade to the Jets, failed to parlay an 8-3 start in New York into a playoff berth (thanks to a partially torn biceps tendon that the Jets were later fined for concealing), finally got his chance to stick it to the Packers by joining the Vikings, stuck it to the Packers twice in 2009, had a third Super Bowl appearance in the bag but for an ill-advised, schoolyard, cross-body, “this is not Detroit!” [*]throw with the NFC title game tied late and the Vikings in position for a long field goal try, [*]came back for one year too many, [*]became embroiled in an embarrassing texting controversy that culminated in a $50,000 fine for not being [*]truthful during the NFL’s investigation, [*]had his incredibly impressive ironman streak end before his career did, [*]and then finally called it quits.[/list]
Mike Florio wrote: