Brett Favre has been playing NFL football for 18 years and seems to get better every year. It’s a great achievement for any NFL player to play as long as he has, but to play at Brett Favre’s level of intensity is next to impossible. He has broken records, won a Super Bowl and defined the odds time and time again in his illustrious career. No one would have thought that he would continue playing football at this age.

He’s come a long way since the Favre we first met in 1991 when he played for the Atlanta Falcons. In his time with the Green Bay Packers, he developed into one of the best quarterbacks the NFL has ever seen. With the help of an explosive offense, he led them to Super Bowl victory in 1997.

In 2008 he was traded to the New York Jets, where he was supposed to retire (but obviously didn’t). He’s now the quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings and he’s doing a remarkable job, if I must say. As of this writing, the Vikings were fifth in the NFL overall standings behind the Eagles and New Orleans Saints.

The fact that Brett has overcome everything people tried to throw at him says a lot about the man he is both on and off the field. He is a fierce competitor, to say the least, and he will most likely go down in the hall of fame whenever he finally decides to retire.