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Brett Favre

American football player
Also known as: Brett Lorenzo Favre
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Brett Favre (born October 10, 1969, Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S.) is an American professional gridiron football player who broke all the major National Football League (NFL) career passing records as quarterback of the Green Bay Packers. Admired for his grit and durability on the field, Favre holds the record for most consecutive regular-season starts as a quarterback at 297 games. Favre grew up in Kiln, Mississippi, and attended the University of Southern Mississippi, where he became...

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