No. 300 for No. 4.

Including playoffs, Favre will make his 300th consecutive start on Sunday against the Lions at Minnesota. Lions QB Matthew Stafford was 4 when Favre's streak began.

“I feel pretty good, mentally and physically. Not great, but I don’t know too many guys that would say that,” Favre said.

Incidentally, I've totally lost track of where Favre ranks with this 300th start in the NFL record books. He's already attained the consecutive start record for QB's some time ago. Kicker Jeff Feagle has the consecutive start for any position - theoretically, but kickers are exempt from this record. Former Viking Jim Marshall had the record for consecutive starts AND consecutive games played (two different records) and Favre surpassed the "starts" record already.

So I'm not sure where that leaves Favre's 300th start. Somewhere, anyway. Congrats, Brett. YOU truly are "the Ironman". The Vikes have a commanding lead in the NFC North with a 7-1 record. SKOL FAVRE! SKOL VIKINGS!

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Huck Finn Favre: For the Record:

© Copyright 2007 Janis Mertin

In 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.

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