Brett Lorenzo Favre was born Oct. 10, 1969 in Gulfport, Mississippi. The second of four children, Favre excelled in both baseball and football at Hancock North Central High School. While he played multiple positions on the football team, Favre was most notably the team’s quarterback, running a wishbone offense that rarely required him to throw. A system designed almost entirely to de-emphasize the quarterback may not seem all that strange to you until you consider that Favre’s father, Irvin, was the team’s head coach, one looking to keep the spotlight off his son.
Well, yeah… that is definitely uncommon, to say the least.