Favre retires

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Originally Posted by Bigsmc

I always enjoyed the games when the Pack came to town. Favre just plain played the game as if it was a game. He had fun.

I miss the battles my Bucs and The Packers used to have....

yes, he spent the majority of his career playing against the really bad Bucs, really really bad Lions, Bears and the Viqueens.

Which is almost as bad as the teams the mighty 49ers played during their hayday.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Michael Strahan of the New York Giants broke the NFL record for sacks in a season, and only Brett Favre will ever know if the record-setter was a gift.


Strahan got sack No. 22½ with 2:42 left in the fourth quarter Sunday, falling on Favre after the Green Bay Packers' quarterback rolled out and went down at the feet of the defensive end. The sack broke the 17-year-old record of 22 set by Mark Gastineau in 1984.


The play looked questionable because the Packers were leading 34-25 and Favre didn't have a blocker in front of him on the rollout.


Michael Strahan got the record with a fourth-quarter "sack" of Brett Favre.


Favre, who joked during the week that he might "work out a little side deal" with Strahan to allow him to get the record, called a run in the huddle, teammates said. The quarterback insisted he changed the play to a naked bootleg to catch the Giants off guard, something he's done five or six times this season.


"No, I didn't," Favre said when asked if he allowed Strahan to sack him. "That was a keep pass. I tried to get the edge but he got through."