Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Did you know what quarterback has broken records and set more milestones?

That would be...

Brett Favre

As of the end of the 2009 NFL season, Favre owned or shared most of the well-known NFL career records, including:

Consecutive starts as a quarterback: 285 (309 including playoffs)^[7]^[104]
Consecutive starts as a position player: 285 ^[105]
Career regular-season victories by a starting quarterback: 181 (Regular-season record: 181–104)^[7]
Wins by a starting quarterback in one stadium: 90, Lambeau Field (including once as a Minnesota Viking)
Consecutive wins, regular season and playoffs, by a starting quarterback in one stadium: 29, Lambeau Field, 1995–1998
Consecutive wins, regular season, by a starting quarterback in one stadium: 25, Lambeau Field, 1995–1998
Wins by a starting quarterback against a single opponent: 27, Detroit Lions (18–0 in home games)
Complettions, Attempts, Passing Yards, Touchdown Passes against a single opponent: Detroit Lions: 790 completions, 11,247 attempts, 9,219 passing yards, 60 touchdown passes
Career passing touchdowns: 497^[106]^[107]
Career passing yards: 69,329^[106]
Career pass completions: 6,083^[7]^[108]
Career pass attempts: 9,811^[6]^[7]^[109]
Career interceptions thrown: 317^[106]^[110]
Career games with at least one touchdown pass: 241
Career games with at least two touchdown passes: 157
Career games with at least three touchdown passes: 71^[53]
Career games with at least four touchdown passes: 23^[111]
Career games with at least one rushing attempt: 231
Career games with at least 200 passing yards: 202
Career games with at least 225 passing yards: 165
Career games with at least 250 passing yards: 139
Career games with at least 275 passing yards: 100
Career games with at least 300 passing yards: 61 (Dan Marino is 1st with 63)
Touchdown passes of 80+ yards: 9
Touchdown passes of 70+ yards: 15
Touchdown passes of 20+ yards: 165
1 yard touchdown passes: 37
1 yard touchdown passes, passer/receiver combination: 8, Brett Favre/Bubba Franks
Career games with at least 30 completions: 24 (Peyton Manning is 2nd with 18)
Career games with at least 20 completions: 185 (Peyton Manning is 2nd with 138)
Completions in a game played on a Friday: 30; 12/24/2004
Seasons with at least 30 touchdown passes: 9
Consecutive seasons with at least 30 touchdown passes: 5
Seasons with at least 3,000 passing yards: 18
Consecutive seasons with at least 3,000 passing yards: 18
Seasons with at least 300 completions: 18
Consecutive seasons with at least 300 completions: 18
Brett Favre & Sterling Sharpe tied Dan Marino & Mark Clayton's record for most passer/receiver touchdown combinations in a season in 1994: 18-broken by Tom Brady and Randy Moss(23) in 2007.
Most consecutive AP NFL MVP awards: 3 (1995–1997)^[112]
Career playoff pass completions: 481^[113]
Career playoff pass attempts: 791^[113]
Career playoff passing yards: 5,855^[113]
(2nd) Career playoff passing touchdowns: 44^[113] (Montana, 45)^[114]
Career playoff interceptions thrown: 30
Career playoff losses as starting QB: 11
(5th) Career playoff wins as starting QB: 13 (Joe Montana, 16; Tom Brady, 14; Terry Bradshaw, 14; John Elway, 14)
Games played by a starting quarterback against one opponent in a calendar year: 5 games against the Detroit Lions in 1994; 1/2/94(game 16 of the 1993 season), 1/8/94(playoff game), 11/6/94, 12/4/94, 12/31/94(playoff game)
Longest gap between receptions: 17 years & 4 weeks (275 games)

Favre is the only quarterback to have led a team to victory over all thirty-two teams in the league since the NFL first expanded to 32 franchises in 2002.^[52]^[115]
Favre is one of four quarterbacks to lead the league in touchdown passes four times. The others are Johnny Unitas, Len Dawson and Steve Young.^[116] In addition, Favre owns a number of team records, having printed his name into almost every passing category in the annals of Green Bay Packers history. Most recently, he set the team record for consecutive completions with 20 on November 22, 2007, against the Detroit Lions.^[117]
Favre is also the first known player to be a grandfather while active in the NFL.

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