© Copyright 2007 Janis MertinIn a post back in September I talked about Huck Finn's return for the 2007 NFL season. I leave you with Ironman Brett's final NFL significant records. I still can't believe I'm posting this:
Most TD passes: 442 - Favre surpassed Dan Marino's mark of 420 in Week 4 last season at Minnesota, with a 16-yard TD pass to Greg Jennings.
Most passing yards: 61,655 - Favre connected with his old buddy Donald Driver to break Marino's mark of 61,361 yards at St. Louis last season in Week 15.
Most passing attempts: 8,758 - Favre also broke this one last year in Week 4 at the Metrodome, and finished exactly 400 passes ahead of Marino (8,358).
Most wins by a starting QB: 160 - Favre eclipsed John Elway's previous mark of 148 in Week 2 last season against the New York Giants. Including postseason, Favre won 172 games. Manning is tops among active QBs with 105 regular-season wins.
Most consecutive starts, quarterback: 253 (275 including playoffs) - The next-longest streak for a QB belongs to Manning, at 160 games (173 including playoffs). Among all players and documented streaks, Favre came up 17 games shy of Minnesota's Jim Marshall, who started 270 straight contests.
Most 3,000-yard passing seasons: 16 - Marino ranks second on this list with 13.
Most consecutive 3,000-yard passing seasons: 16 - Manning broke a second-place tie with Marino last season with his 10th in a row.
Most pass completions: 5,377 - Favre surpassed Marino's 4,967 completions two seasons ago, with a pass to Carlyle Holiday against Detroit on Dec. 17, 2006, at Lambeau Field.
Most seasons with 30-plus TD passes: 8 - Marino and Manning are both a distant second here with four each.
Most consecutive games with a TD pass, postseason: 18 - Favre extended this by two more games last season. Once again, Marino is in second place with 13.
Most seasons with at least 300 completions - 16.
Most TD passes in a single stadium - 209 at Lambeau Field.
Most accurate passer - 61.4 career completion percentage (at least 6,000 career attempts).
Most games with three-or-more touchdown passes - 63.
Most NFL MVP awards: 3 - Six other players, the only active ones being quarterbacks Manning and Kurt Warner, have won the award twice. Favre was runner-up to Tom Brady in 2007 for a potential fourth MVP.
With all those records, how does ESPN tell me that at best, he's the 3rd best quarterback. What other records matter for a quarterback. Rediculous. Thanks for 16 of the greatest years of my football life Favre. I'm one of the proud indivduals that can say I saw you live on your last regular season game at Lambeau.
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