The date of February 10, 1992 will be a day the Green Bay Packers organization will cherish forever and a day the Atlanta Falcons would love to forget.

That was the day then-Packers general manager Ron Wolf pulled off one of the most lopsided trades in sports history.

At the time, the Falcons were coming off a playoff appearance the season prior, thanks in large part to the stellar play of their quarterback Chris Miller. About 950 miles north, the Packers were in utter disarray and needed a face for the franchise – preferably at quarterback.

So Wolf made a call.

The Falcons must have thought Wolf’s phone call was a joke, because what he was offering was Green Bay’s first round pick in 1992 for quarterback Brett Favre – the same Brett Favre that had rotted on the Falcons’ bench as a rookie by day and hit the nightlight in Atlanta hard by night. In fact one time, Favre was late for a team photo shoot because he had been out drinking the night before.

He wasn’t a savoir – he was a screw up. And the Falcons were more than happy to take a first round pick (which they eventually used to select Favre’s college teammate, running back Tony Smith) for their third-string quarterback that wasn’t going to see the field anyway.

Whoops.

The rest was history.

Favre cleaned up his act and found a new life in Green Bay. He concentrated on football and almost immediately transformed into the player that caught Wolf’s eye at Southern Mississippi University. 

Favre would eventually take the Packers to two Super Bowls – winning one in 1997 – and earned the Associated Press’s Most Valuable Player Award three times (1995, 1996, 1997). He was also selected to nine Pro Bowls, was a seven-time All-Pro selection and was named to the NFL 1990s All-Decade Team.

He also currently has the most wins by a starting quarterback in the NFL with 160, and has the most consecutive starts by a quarterback with 253. For his career, he has thrown for 61,655 yards and 442 touchdowns. He also has a career QB rating of 85.7.

On March 4, 2008, Favre officially walked away from the game. Even though fellow signal callers like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady received more accolades later in his career, Favre always competed at the highest level and is considered one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game.

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