Green Bay Packers – Just The Beginning
Didn’t take long for Brett Favre to find his home – enter the Green Bay Packers. Ron Wolf, the Packers general manager, actually traded a first-round pick for Brett Favre after the 1991 season. Wolf wanted Favre in the 1991 NFL draft but he had already been scooped up by the Falcons. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, during the physical, Favre was diagnosed with avascular necrosis of the hip, which is the same degenerative condition that ended Bo Jackson’s career. The doctors actually recommended that Favre’s physical be failed, which would mean the trade was off. However Wolf overruled them.
Green Bay Packers – Just The Beginning
Turnaround
No doubt you already know that Brett Favre’s run with the Packers was something out of a fairy tale. Favre turned around the struggling, but proud franchise, into an eternal winner while he established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks the game had ever seen. Throughout a 16 season career, Favre led the Packers to two Super Bowls, winning one, and become the first NFL player to have won three straight MVP awards.
Turnaround
