Favre & Manning’s Careers Share The Same Boat

By Tony Tucker • February 13, 2010

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Who is the greatest QB of all-time? Is it Joe Montana, John Elway, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, or Brett Favre? All of these men are in the conversation for different circumstances.

Favre holds every major personal passing record. Montana, Elway, and Brady all have multiply rings. Manning, if healthy for the next several seasons will pass all of Favre’s records.

For two straight weeks fans, players, and media spent time anointing Peyton Manning as the greatest QB of all-time. I too got caught up in the web of greatness when I picked the Colts to win the Super Bowl.

Everyone I see on television and talk to about sports claims Manning is the Greatest. Well if that is the consensus, then we need to reevaluate Manning’s position after losing to the Saints in the Super Bowl.

I strongly argue that Favre is the greatest QB ever! For the same reason that people tell me I’m an idiot for that statement, and then choose Manning, he looked an awful lot like Favre on that critical late game interception.

If you look at the numbers, who is better Favre or Manning?

More In Common Than Just Southern Natives

Regular season numbers are a wash for Favre and Manning, when their careers are over they will be one and two in all major categories.

In fact the only thing that may hold back these men from continuing their amazing consecutive games streak is the possible 2011 work stoppage.

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Categories: NFL
Tags: Brett Favre, John Elway, NFL, Peyton Manning, Super Bowl

About the Author

Tony Tucker

I am a staff writer at GenXXL.com covering baseball, basketball, and football, primarily. My mother thought I would be a field goal kicker or tap dancer before I was even born, but flat feet and a weight problem pretty much took care of those dreams. Instead I’m a guinea pig for the new podcast GenXXL will be publishing every week, and I also cover sports at BleacherReport.com. I have been watching and playing sports since I was 4 – from hockey to tennis and everything in between. The only thing more entertaining than watching Brett Favre play is Rosario Dawson mud wrestling. I like to think of myself and my writing to be unique and fun, but that could just be the massive head trauma I suffered on the football field talking. Which of course means if I say your favorite team sucks you can blame it on the many repetitious blows I’ve taken to the head. I have received four achievement awards for my work on BleacherReport.com. I was awarded a bronze medal for what the site calls a Hot Read, over 1,400 reads, on a NFL awards prediction article. The two I am most proud of generated comments, mostly hatred hurled at me, likely due to those knocks in the head. One was a bronze medal for a piece on Allen Iverson and the other was a silver medal done about Bill Belichick. I either hit a nerve or people decided to take out their sexual frustrations on me. My goal will always be to make you feel something; happy, sad, or angry and if you don’t, that could be a sign that your mother breast fed you whisky.

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