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Records and milestones
As of the Conference Championship Playoff game of the 2009 NFL season, Favre owned or shared most of the well-known NFL career records, including:
* Consecutive starts as a quarterback: 285 (308 including playoffs)[6][105]
* Consecutive starts as a position player: 285 [106]
* Career regular-season victories by a starting quarterback: 181 (Regular-season record: 181–104)[6]
* Most wins by a starting quarterback against a single opponent: 27, Detroit Lions (18–0 in home games)
* Career passing touchdowns: 497[107][108]
* Career passing yards: 69,329[107]
* Career pass completions: 6,083[6][109]
* Career pass attempts: 9,811[5][6][110]
* Career interceptions thrown: 317[107][111]
* Career games with at least one touchdown pass: 241
* Career games with at least two touchdown passes: 157
* Career games with at least three touchdown passes: 71[52]
* Career games with at least four touchdown passes: 23[112]
* Career games with at least 200 passing yards: 202
* Career games with at least 225 passing yards: 165
* Career games with at least 250 passing yards: 139
* Career games with at least 275 passing yards: 100
* Career games with at least 300 passing yards: 61 (Dan Marino is 1st with 63)
* Touchdown passes of 80+ yards: 9
* Touchdown passes of 70+ yards: 15
* Touchdown passes of 20+ yards: 165
* 1 yard touchdown passes: 37
* 1 yard touchdown passes, passer/receiver combination: 8, Brett Favre/Bubba Franks
* Career games with at least 30 completions: 24 (Peyton Manning is 2nd with 18)
* Career games with at least 20 completions: 185 (Peyton Manning is 2nd with 138)
* Completions in a game played on a Friday: 30; 12/24/2004
* Seasons with at least 30 touchdown passes: 9
* Consecutive seasons with at least 30 touchdown passes: 5
* Seasons with at least 3,000 passing yards: 18
* Consecutive seasons with at least 3,000 passing yards: 18
* Seasons with at least 300 completions: 18
* Consecutive seasons with at least 300 completions: 18
* Brett Favre & Sterling Sharpe tied Dan Marino & Mark Clayton's record for most passer/receiver touchdown combinations in a season in 1994: 18-broken by Tom Brady and Randy Moss(23) in 2007.
* Most consecutive AP NFL MVP awards: 3 (1995–1997)[113]
* Career playoff pass completions: 481[114]
* Career playoff pass attempts: 745[114]
* Career playoff passing yards: 5,855[114]
* (2nd) Career playoff passing touchdowns: 44[114] (Montana, 45)[115]
* Career playoff interceptions thrown: 30
* Career playoff losses as starting QB: 11
* (5th) Career playoff wins as starting QB: 13 (Joe Montana, 16; Tom Brady, 14; Terry Bradshaw, 14; John Elway, 14)
Favre is the only quarterback to have led a team to victory over all thirty-two teams in the league since the NFL first expanded to 32 franchises in 2002.[51][116]
Favre is one of four quarterbacks to lead the league in touchdown passes four times. The others are Johnny Unitas, Len Dawson and Steve Young.[117] In addition, Favre owns a number of team records, having printed his name into almost every passing category in the annals of Green Bay Packers history. Most recently, he set the team record for consecutive completions with 20 on November 22, 2007, against the Detroit Lions.[118]
Consecutive starts streak
Since first being named the starter of the Green Bay Packers before playing the Pittsburgh Steelers on September 27, 1992, Brett Favre has never missed a game.[119] He is currently in first place for the most consecutive starts by a quarterback in the NFL and one of only five quarterbacks to have started over 100 consecutive games in NFL history. He failed to finish a game due to injury on only six occasions since taking control of the Packers as quarterback.[120] Besides Favre, there is only one other active streak of 100 or more games among quarterbacks, that of Peyton Manning. Since the beginning of Favre's consecutive start streak, 212 other quarterbacks have started in the NFL,[121][122] 12 of them being back-ups to Favre at one point.[119] Among his former backups are: Don Majkowski, Ty Detmer, Kurt Warner, Mark Brunell, Steve Bono, Doug Pederson, Matt Hasselbeck, Danny Wuerffel, Aaron Brooks, J.T. O'Sullivan, and current Packers starter Aaron Rodgers. Two veteran backups to Favre never started another NFL game: Jim McMahon, and T.J. Rubley. The consecutive starts streak is widely considered one of the most notable streaks in sports, so much so that the Pro Football Hall of Fame has as an exhibit displaying the jersey Favre wore during his record breaking 117th consecutive start as a quarterback, and a section of their website devoted to what the Hall of Fame calls an "Iron Man".[123]
In 2009, Favre surpassed Jim Marshall for starts at any position with his record-breaking 271st start as a quarterback as the Vikings played the Lions.[124][125][126]
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