Brett Favre cried and is still tough
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Brett cried. The toughest guy ever in football cried.
Oh, you think you know someone tougher?
In the first quarter of the third game of the 1992 season, Packers quarterback Don Majkowski suffered an injury and Brett Favre took his place. Favre then started the next 253 regular-season games before retiring. source
Now how many days of work did you miss in the last 17 years of your mamby pamby job?
And how does that compare to my pathetic Lions?
During his record streak, the Lions used 15 starting quarterbacks. The most starts? Scott Mitchell with 59. The fewest? Stoney Case with one. And you can’t forget Majkowski, who started twice.
And check out the North Division starting quarterbacks going into next year. These are not starting streaks, just number of career starts. Grossman still has to beat out Kyle Orton and Rodgers is no lock either.
• Jon Kitna, Lions — 32 starts –10-12
• Rex Grossman, Bears — 30 — 19-11
• Tarvaris Jackson, Vikings — 14 — 8-6
• Aaron Rodgers, Packers — 0 — 0-0
Brett cried
It was hard to say goodbye. Much harder than Brett Favre thought it would be.
“I promised I wouldn’t get emotional,” he said. But as the tears flowed, he added, “I’ve watched hundreds of players retire and you wonder what that would be like. You think you’re prepared …”
Favre thanked the Green Bay Packers for letting him play.
“I hope that with every penny they’ve spent on me, they know it was money well spent,” he said. “It wasn’t about the money or fame or records. I hear people talk about your accomplishments and things. It was never my accomplishments, it was our accomplishments.” source
In the end, the toughest man in pro football cried about his love for the game and his team!
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