packers11
07-26-2007, 11:40 AM
"Since we've never encountered a good idea that we weren't willing to swipe, we've decided to roll out our own Top 25 players of the past 25 years, given the current efforts of USA Today to do so."
ProFootballTalk.com's Top 25 In 25
No. 4 Brett Favre.
We give Brett Favre a hard time from time to time on this site. But there is simply no denying that he is one of the finest football players of this or any era.
He has started 237 straight games, a remarkable string for a guy who does his thing from the eye of a storm of 300-pound behemoths with bad intentions. He will own every career passing record before he retires. He re-energized a franchise, and he was named the MVP by the Associated Press three straight times.
At a time when a growing number of Falcons fans are lamenting the trade that put the team in a position to draft quarterback Mike Vick in 2001, the move had its roots in an even more problematic trade from ten years earlier, when the Falcons sent Favre to Green Bay.
If Favre had stayed in Atlanta, there very well might have been no need in 2001 to select a franchise quarterback, and the franchise would have been spared the intense embarrassment that it is now experiencing.
The only thing that kept Favre from landing higher than No. 4 on our list was his tendency to, from time to time, make ill-advised throws and the fact that he wears only one Super Bowl ring, for now.
ProFootballTalk.com's Top 25 In 25
No. 4 Brett Favre.
We give Brett Favre a hard time from time to time on this site. But there is simply no denying that he is one of the finest football players of this or any era.
He has started 237 straight games, a remarkable string for a guy who does his thing from the eye of a storm of 300-pound behemoths with bad intentions. He will own every career passing record before he retires. He re-energized a franchise, and he was named the MVP by the Associated Press three straight times.
At a time when a growing number of Falcons fans are lamenting the trade that put the team in a position to draft quarterback Mike Vick in 2001, the move had its roots in an even more problematic trade from ten years earlier, when the Falcons sent Favre to Green Bay.
If Favre had stayed in Atlanta, there very well might have been no need in 2001 to select a franchise quarterback, and the franchise would have been spared the intense embarrassment that it is now experiencing.
The only thing that kept Favre from landing higher than No. 4 on our list was his tendency to, from time to time, make ill-advised throws and the fact that he wears only one Super Bowl ring, for now.