Brett Favre has had an amazing career and is one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game. He has been in some big moments during his time in the NFL and accomplished a number of great things, including a Super Bowl title and numerous individual awards and accolades.
Here are five things you may not know about the legendary Brett Favre.
#1 Bear Killer
Throughout his 2009 National Football League season with the Minnesota Vikings, Brett Favre has thrown more touchdown passes against the Chicago Bears in his career than against any other team. He has thrown 58 against the Bears, closely followed by the Detroit Lions to whom he has thrown 57 touchdown passes.
#2 A sterling season
In his first season with the Packers, Favre would throw 18 TD assists. A full two-thirds of them, or 12, were thrown at Sterling Sharpe.
#3 Run, be free, man!
No one has caught more touchdown passes from Brett Favre than former Green Bay Packers wide receiver Antonio Freeman. They made a good pair in the late 1990s and together they connected for a touchdown 57 times.
#4 Spread the wealth
Throughout the 2009 season, Brett Favre has completed touchdown passes to 58 different players. Twelve of those players have only received one TD pass from him during his career, including Andre Rison, Greg Lewis, Reggie Cobb, Chester Taylor, Charles Lee, Darrell Thompson, Samkon Gado, Harry Sydney, Naufahu Tahi, Kitrick Taylor, Koren Robinson. and Wesley Walls.
#5 A smart guy
Sterling Sharpe caught Brett Favre’s first NFL regular season touchdown pass, a 5-yard pass in the fourth quarter of a 1992 win over the Cincinnati Bengals, and also his first postseason touchdown pass, a pass 12-yarder in the second quarter of a 28-24 win. on the Detroit Lions in 1993.