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Brett Favre's Iron Man Streak is Over

Posted December 14th, 2010 at 4:33 PM by Sweet Candace
Updated December 15th, 2010 at 12:15 PM by Sweet Candace

As many of you have probably heard, Brett Favre was in street clothes last night as his Vikings played host to the New York Giants in Ford Field in Detroit. It ended a 297 consecutive game start streak. He eclipsed Jim Marshall's overall record of 271 consecutive starts at any position in 2009. He has held the record for a QB since November 7th, 1999 when his Packers played the Chicago Bears. Peyton Manning is the active player with the longest active streak with 205, and will have 208 at the end of this season.

It will take Peyton 6 more years to break Brett's streak, in which Peyton will be 40 years old at the end of that season, that is if the NFL still has a 16-game season at that point in time.

238 other quarterbacks have started in the NFL during Brett's streak, 12 of which were backups to Brett Favre at some point in their career. (Don Majkowski, Ty Detmer, Kurt Warner, Mark Brunell, Steve Bono, Doug Pederson, Matt Hasselbeck, Danny Wuerffel, Aaron Brooks, J.T. O'Sullivan, Aaron Rodgers, Tavaris Jackson and Jim McMahon, and T.J. Rubley.)

Brett might never play a game again in his career as he is clearly leaning towards retirement and the fact his shoulder injury, which he suffered after throwing an interception on his first pass against the Buffalo Bills, could shelve him for the rest of the season. As he tearfully said in 2007,

"All good things must...come to an end."
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