When Packers fans settle into their recliners to watch the game against the Chicago Bears on Thursday night, bellies full of turkey and stuffing, they should pause to give thanks, between bites of pumpkin pie, to one Brett Lorenzo Favre.
It's appropriate that the Packers are honoring Favre for his 16 years of Sunday service on Thanksgiving. Because if it wasn't for No. 4 — a number never again to be worn by a player in Green Bay — who knows what the franchise would look like today?
Favre came along at the perfect time for a team mired in loser's muck.