Your personal opinion, of course, sinkspur...but those darn pesky career statistics keep getting in your way:
- Is the NFL's only three-time MVP (1995-97)
- Is the NFL's leading active passer with a career rating of 86.8; his rating now ranks third all-time in NFL annals, behind only Steve Young (96.8) and Joe Montana (92.3), and just ahead of Dan Marino (86.4)
- Ranks in the NFL's top ten in four major passing categories: seventh in attempts (5,442), sixth in completions (3,311), ninth in yards (38,627) and sixth in touchdowns (287)
- Holds the fifth-highest winning percentage (.656, 103-54) among starting quarterbacks who have begun their careers in 1970 or later (minimum 100 starts)
- Possesses an unblemished 31-0 record at home (25-0 regular season, 6-0 playoffs) when the game-time temperature is 34 degrees or below; quarterback rating in those contests is 99.8
- Has started 157 consecutive games (173 including playoffs), which is an NFL record for a quarterback First NFL completion was to himself, the quarterback snaring his own deflected aerial for -7 yards in contest at Tampa Bay on Sept. 13, 1992
- Started in 1996 the 'Brett Favre Forward Foundation,' which over the past seven years, in conjunction with his annual golf tournament, celebrity softball game and fundraising dinner, has donated in excess of $1 million to charities in his home state of Mississippi as well as to those in his adopted state of Wisconsin
- An avid golfer, possesses a handicap in the "one to two" range, down from a 15 he carried as recently as 1998
- Is a partner in a Green Bay restaurant, 'The Brett Favre Steakhouse.'
Overrated? I don't think so!!