Brett Favre – One of the best!

Brett Favre has been playing NFL football for 18 years and seems to get better every year. It’s a huge accomplishment for any NFL player to play as long as he has, but doing it at Brett Favre’s level of intensity is nearly impossible. He has broken records, won a Super Bowl and defined the odds over and over again in his illustrious career. No one would have thought that he would still be playing football at this age.

He’s come a long way from the Favre we first met in 1991 when he was playing for the Atlanta Falcons. In his time with the Green Bay Packers, he became one of the best quarterbacks the NFL has ever seen. With the help of an explosive offense, he led them to a Super Bowl victory in 1997.

In 2008 he was traded to the New York Jets, where he was supposed to retire (but obviously didn’t). He’s now the quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings and he’s doing a remarkable job, if I must say so. At the time of this writing, the Vikings were fifth overall in the NFL standings behind the Eagles and New Orleans Saints.

The fact that Brett has overcome everything that people tried to throw at him speaks volumes about the man he is both on and off the field. He is a fierce competitor, to say the least, and will most likely go into the hall of fame whenever he decides to finally retire.