re: Better Career Favre-Rodgers?

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This is false, the only time they were close was when Lambeau wanted to move them to Los Angeles. They promptly ran his arse out of town despite winning them their championships.

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I'll admit I don't know a ton about the Packers' early history and I was intrigued by this so I did a quick wiki dive. According to wiki, the team was on the brink of bankruptcy in 1949 so Lambeau wanted to bring in outside investors to shore up their finances. This of course would have abolished their public ownership structure so team officials nixed it and offered Lambeau a revised contract stripping him of control over non-football matters (which he promptly declined). Bringing in private ownership would have 100% resulted in the team moving somewhere sooner or later.

That said, the team was still in dire financial straights and bankruptcy was still likely, but in 1950 a freak fire (due to faulty electrical wiring or lightning strike) at the Packers' state of the art training faculty allowed the Packers to use the insurance money to pay off their debts and obtain solvency.

Interesting little bit of team history I was not aware of. I've always loved the Packers' designation as a publicly owned non-profit (which the NFL no longer allows) and the fact that there's an NFL team and a huge stadium in whats an otherwise sleepy little suburb in Wisconsin. It's interesting to learn that if not for a freak fire they'd likely not be there anymore, either due to relocation or outright folding. I mean, the early history of football had tons of teams in smaller cities and teams folded and relocated all the time for various reasons. It's cool that one of them has managed to not just survive, but thrive for over 100 years now and because of the public ownership they'll never be at risk of leaving. Pro sports will almost certainly never see anything like that ever again.

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Love Favre as a player and human

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Favre was good all the way until the day he retired.

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Rodgers and it's not even close if we're talking strictly stats and play on the field.

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Career stats:
Passing yards: Favre 71,838 Rodgers 62,021
Touchdowns: Favre 508 Rodgers 495

Favre: 13-11 in 12 postseason appearances, 12-10 with the Packers, 1-1 with the Vikings.
Rodgers: 11-8 in 10 postseason appearances with Green Bay

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He was Mahomes before Mahomes became who he is. I have never seen someone throw the ball and put it in places like Rodgers can.

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I am guessing that you're young and never watched mid-90s Favre so I will let it slide.

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A lot on here dont remember how good mid 90's Favre really was.

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He didn't win 3 MVPs with his personality

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Career stats:
Passing yards: Favre 71,838 Rodgers 62,021
Touchdowns: Favre 508 Rodgers 495

Favre: 13-11 in 12 postseason appearances, 12-10 with the Packers, 1-1 with the Vikings.
Rodgers: 11-8 in 10 postseason appearances with Green Bay

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I thought Favre was great. I was able to catch the middle of his career up until the end. Rodgers was just different, man.

He has the highest passer rating in the history of the league and he's been doing this for 16 years.

Rodgers has played in 244 games so far and Favre has played in 321, and they essentially have the same number of TD passes.

Favre was an interception machine, and Rodgers has a fraction of the INTs that Favre threw (336 vs. 113).

Rodgers has 7 of the top 10 best TD/INT ratios for a quarterback with 500+ pass attempts in a season.

Favre was beloved because his personality and "small town" persona and I think that plays a huge factor into the debate.

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The franchise was in real danger of maybe having to relocate.

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All I needed to read. It shows that you know nothing about how the Packers organization works.

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Right from their own team webpage smartass. I know exactly how the Packers work you cocksucker. I've been a fan since 1979.

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The most recent danger of the Packers relocating occurred in the 1950’s when they were fighting to build New City Stadium. They built it, it was renamed Lambeau Field, hired an Italian from New York, and the rest as they say is history. At no time since the new stadium was built was that franchise ever going to relocate.

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The Packers played almost half their games in Milwaukee until 1995, coincidently once Favre had them respectable again. The Packers didn't give a shite about Lambeau Field.

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Favre didn't give a shite if he threw interceptions, Rodgers absolutely didn't want to throw picks and would take a sack instead.

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I've said for years Rodgers seemingly being more worried about his INT stats than anything else cost them wins.


Favre would throw some picks that would piss you off to no end, but the guy played to win. Didn't give a shite about his stats.

Also, if Rodgers had to take the hits Favre did he would have been out of the league after 5 or 6 years. Favre was a warrior out there while Rodgers was a vagina that put up pretty stats.

I bet that you had a slightly different tune when those INTs were costing the Packers games.

I don't see why people knock Rodgers for not wanting to throw INTs. Those are drive killers and momentum shifting plays. No fan wants their QB to throw picks. Nussmeier's pick in the A&M game changed the entire dynamic and was what galvanized the opponent.

There's a big difference between being aggressive and playing like an idiot and Favre had a tendency to do both.

Favre was tough for sure, but I definitely wouldn't say that Rodgers is some vagina that is scared to get hit like Brady was. He's taken some hits and shown he can hang in there.