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Green Bay Packers retiring Brett Favre’s jersey on Thanksgiving vs Bears

By Patrick Schmidt

Nov 4, 2013; Green Bay, WI, USA; A Green Bay Packers helmet during the game against the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field. Chicago won 27-20. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 4, 2013; Green Bay, WI, USA; A Green Bay Packers helmet during the game against the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field. Chicago won 27-20. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Green Bay Packers are retiring Brett Favre’s jersey on Thanksgiving night against the team he loved to torment during his career, the Chicago Bears.

Brett Favre will have his No. 4 jersey retired by the Green Bay Packers on Thanksgiving night against the Chicago Bears, according to Tom Silverstein of the Journal Sentinel.

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As the NFL releases the schedule for all 32 teams on Tuesday night, one leak is the two bitter rivals playing each other in the nightcap of the tripleheader on Thanksgiving as Favre will get one last chance to stick it to the Bears who he tormented during his Hall of Fame career.

Favre was 21-9 against the Bears during his 11 years with the Packers, including a staggering 10-game winning streak from 1994-1998 and a seven-game winning streak from 2000-2003 when he was the top quarterback in the NFL.

This will be a huge day for Favre, the Packers and the NFL who get a primetime game on a night when everyone, including non-football fans are huddled around their television sets and watching the jersey retirement of one of the game’s all-time greats.

Favre came to the Packers in a shrewd trade by Ron Wolf after one season with the Atlanta Falcons and the rest is history. Favre went 160-93 in 16 years with the Pack where he completed 61.4 percent of his passes for 61,665 yards and 442 touchdowns. He led the Packers to two Super Bowls, winning Super Bowl XXXI against the New England Patriots and was a three-time NFL MVP.

He left the Packers after leading them to a 13-3 record in 2007, playing one season with the New York Jets and two seasons with the Minnesota Vikings before retiring in 2010, and opening the door for Rodgers to step in as the next future Hall of Fame quarterback for the Packers. Favre is eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2016. He will be inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame on July 18.

Favre retired as the NFL all-time leader in completions, attempts, yards, touchdowns (since passed by Peyton Manning), total offense, starts, consecutive games played but also as the leader in interceptions, fumbles and sacks.

The Packers once ruined the night when Bears legends Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers had their jerseys retired during a monsoon on Halloween in 1994 when the Packers beat the Bears 33-6 and Favre threw a 99-yard touchdown pass to Robert Brooks, so perhaps the Bears can get a modicum of revenge on No. 4 and pick up a win against the Packers and Favre’s successor, Aaron Rodgers.

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