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Brett is BACK!!!
AP) GREEN BAY Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre will return for his 17th season, Favre told the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss., on Friday.
"I am so excited about coming back," he told the newspaper. "We have a good nucleus of young players. We were 8-8 last year and that's encouraging.
"My offensive line looks good, the defense played good down the stretch. I'm excited about playing for a talented young football team."
The team had no immediate comment on the report.
The league's only three-time MVP, Favre, 37, last left the field in an emotional scene in Chicago after leading the Packers to a victory over the Bears to finish the season 8-8.
Favre has started 257 consecutive games including the playoffs, an NFL record for quarterbacks. He broke Dan Marino's record for career completions (4,967) in 2006 and is closing in on Marino's marks for career touchdown passes (420) and yards passing (61,361).
As he has done in the past several offseasons, Favre returned to his home in Mississippi after the season to deliberate about his future. Last year, Favre waited until late April to tell the team he was returning.
Favre complained about nagging injuries and the drudgery of practice toward the end of last season, then choked back tears as he talked about missing the game and missing his teammates in a television interview immediately after the season finale in Chicago -- leading many to believe that he intended to retire.
But he apparently couldn't resist one more chance to try to lead the Packers back to the playoffs after a season in which a Packers team that wasn't expected to do much won its final four games and was in playoff contention until the final weekend of the regular season.
During his 15 seasons under center for Green Bay, Favre has led the Packers to 10 postseason appearances, six division titles, three NFC Championship games, two Super Bowls and one championship following the 1996 season.
Favre, who was traded to Green Bay after one season as a backup in Atlanta in 1991, has had just one losing season in his career as a starter.
Favre was acquired in a trade by former Packers general manager Ron Wolf after one season as a backup in Atlanta in 1991. He completed his first NFL pass -- to himself -- on Sept. 13, 1992, catching a deflection and losing seven yards.
The following week, he replaced injured starter Don Majkowski in the third quarter and led the Packers to a come-from-behind 24-23 victory over Cincinnati.
He started in place of Majkowski on Sept. 27, 1992, beginning the streak he has often called his biggest personal accomplishment. The 237-game regular season streak is nearly six seasons ahead of the Colts' Peyton Manning at 144.
Beyond the streak, Favre's accomplishments include winning three league MVP awards -- he shared 1997 honors with Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders -- and throwing two touchdown passes in a 35-21 victory over the New England Patriots in the 1997 Super Bowl to give the Packers their first championship in 29 years. Earlier in that championship season, Favre spent time in the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kan., battling an addiction to painkillers.
Favre led the Packers back to the Super Bowl the following season, but they lost to Elway's Denver Broncos 31-24.
WFRV.Com will carry a live webcast of Green Bay Packers General Manager Ted Thompson speaking out on the return of Quaterback Brett Favre today at 3PM.
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Originally Posted by Twilight Flyer
Maybe Garrett can come out of retirement and QB that game...he'd have no problems with it. 
THAT'S SO DAMNED COOL!! Told ya so, Yoop!! 8) 8)
