Now that the streak is history, there is speculation we have seen Favre play his last game - not only for the year, but for his career. He may even be placed on injured reserve to remove any doubt of a comeback this year.
Before this most recent injury, Favre announced several times this would be his final year. While we all have a right to be skeptical about that, this time it rings true. He will have completed his two year contract with the Vikings and the universe of teams willing to pay Favre to quarterback the team which Favre would deem Super Bowl contenders that might tempt him appears to have shrunk to zero. There is no more big money left on the table and no teams clamoring for him to come in and save them.
Before this most recent injury, Favre announced several times this would be his final year. While we all have a right to be skeptical about that, this time it rings true. He will have completed his two year contract with the Vikings and the universe of teams willing to pay Favre to quarterback the team which Favre would deem Super Bowl contenders that might tempt him appears to have shrunk to zero. There is no more big money left on the table and no teams clamoring for him to come in and save them.
If Favre's career is indeed finished, it ends with more than a few interesting tidbits of trivia. First, he will be going out of the game like he entered it. Favre took over as Green Bay Packer quarterback during the 1992 season when starter Don Majkowski got injured. Majkowski never started another game for the Packers. The bookend is that like Majkowski, Favre ends with an injury.
Favre is a career leader among NFL quarterbacks in numerous categories. This includes consecutive games started, yards passing, touchdown passes, and more ignominiously, interceptions. If this is truly the end of Favre's season (and/or career), his final pass of the year would have been an interception in 3 out of his last 4 years (including this year, last year - his first with the Vikings - and his final year with the Packers). The only one of those final years he did NOT end the year with an interception (his year with the Jets) he threw an interception on his second to the last throw.
UPDATE - 12/22/10 - The ever unpredictable Favre did not end his career with the injury in the game against Buffalo after all. Just his consecutive games played streak ended then. After sitting out a game (against the Giants), Favre miraculously healed sufficiently to start the following game against the Bears. This time, he left with a concussion suffered on a sack. On the upside, while he threw an interception, it was not his last throw. It is unclear whether he will be medically cleared to play in the last two games of the year.
Favre is a career leader among NFL quarterbacks in numerous categories. This includes consecutive games started, yards passing, touchdown passes, and more ignominiously, interceptions. If this is truly the end of Favre's season (and/or career), his final pass of the year would have been an interception in 3 out of his last 4 years (including this year, last year - his first with the Vikings - and his final year with the Packers). The only one of those final years he did NOT end the year with an interception (his year with the Jets) he threw an interception on his second to the last throw.
UPDATE - 12/22/10 - The ever unpredictable Favre did not end his career with the injury in the game against Buffalo after all. Just his consecutive games played streak ended then. After sitting out a game (against the Giants), Favre miraculously healed sufficiently to start the following game against the Bears. This time, he left with a concussion suffered on a sack. On the upside, while he threw an interception, it was not his last throw. It is unclear whether he will be medically cleared to play in the last two games of the year.
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