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Valrie, Kerry, 54, 64–65, 90
Vandross, Luther, 219
Van Susteren, Greta, 315
Verneil, Dick, 179
Vestal, Ricky, 46
Vikings, 152, 154, 175, 350–54
Vinatieri, Adam, 223
Vince, Donald, 44
Vince Lombardi Trophy, 224
Virginia Tech, 116
Vitt, Joe, 363–64
Vogler, Matt, 46
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Wahle, Mike, 261
Wainwright, Reed, 106
Walker, Javon, 276, 377
Walker, Sammy, 120
Wallace, Seneca, 338
Walls, Wesley, 276
Walsh, Bill, 22, 152, 283
Ware, Andre, 84
Ware, DeMarcus, 357
Warnsley, Reggie, 90
Washington, Ben, 52, 88, 92
Washington, Fabian, 285–86
Washington, Ted, 95
Washington Post, 167
Washington Redskins, 135–37, 329
Waterloo (Ontario) Chronicle, 352
Waters, Ricky, 119
Watkins, Billy, 92–93, 99, 102
Watson, Jerry, 191–92, 227, 264
Watters, Ricky, 218
Watts, Toby, 58, 59–60, 90, 97
Weaver, Mike, 67
Webb, Joe, 369–70
Webster, Corey, 305–6
Weeks, Robbie, 52
Weldon, Casey, 88
Wendell Ladner Bowl, 35
Werder, Ed, 316, 343
West, Ed, 180
West Coast offense, 153, 176, 347–48
Weygand, Freddy, 79
Whitcomb, John, 103–4, 108–9, 117
Whitcomb, Skeebo, 103
White, Jack, 45–47, 51, 52–53, 62–66, 67–68, 71
White, Reggie, 164, 171–73, 176, 194, 231
drug use and, 196
hamstring injury, 240–41
leadership of, 176–77
locker room influence of, 211
in movies, 245
on Super Bowl, 199
in Super Bowl parade, 226
White, Sara, 172, 173, 196
White, William, 180
Whitley, David, 315
Wied, Jason, 315, 317–18
Wigley and Culp, 1
Wilf, Zygi, 345, 365, 369
Wilkins, Gabe, 240–41
Williams, Alfred, 65, 76, 78, 90, 158
Williams, Cadillac, 285
Williams, Darrell, 50
Williams, Gregg, 359, 360, 363–64
Williams, Kerry, 58, 70
Williams, Mark, 194
Williams, Marty, 76, 79, 80
Willis, Andrew, 24, 89
Willis, Peter Tom, 88
Wilner, Barry, 306
Wilson, Eugene, 347
Wilson, Robert, 99, 122–23, 126
Winfield, Antoine, 346–47
Wing-T offense, 21–22, 33–35
Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 127
Winston-Salem Journal, 280
Winters, Frank, 171, 205, 218, 242, 315
partying with Favre, 175, 189, 190, 213, 228, 256–57
Wisconsin State Journal, 191, 337
Wishom, Jerron, 296
Wojciechowski, Gene, 363
Wolf, Ron
departure from Green Bay, 284
on Favre, 229
in Favre trade to Green Bay, 138
Gagliano signed by, 195–96
hired by Green Bay, 142–43
relationship with Holmgren, 247
on Rhodes, 250, 253
scouting by, 113–14, 120–21, 125–26
White recruited by, 172–73
Wonderlic, 288
Wood, Kim, 156
Woodson, Rod, 161–62
Woolley, Joe, 164
Wootton, Corey, 370
Workman, Vince, 159
World Health Industries, 375–76
Worthen, Naz, 133
Wrangler, 375
Wright, Randy, 144
Wuerffel, Danny, 261
Wyche, Sam, 279
Wynn, DeShawn, 302, 304
A Year of Champions (Brown), 226
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Yelle, Leo, 236
Young, Ailrick, 48, 55, 56, 57–58, 60–62, 67–68, 72–73, 78
Young, Steve, 121, 144, 174, 185, 244–45, 378
Youngblood, Kenneth, 17–18
Youngmisuk, Ohm, 340
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Zeno, Marc, 61
Zolak, Scott, 244
Zulgad, Judd, 356
About the Author
JEFF PEARLMAN is the New York Times best-selling author of seven books, including Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s; Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton; Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty; and The Bad Guys Won! He lives with this wife, Catherine, and two children, Casey and Emmett, in California and blogs regularly at www.jeffpearlman.com.
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Footnotes
* In his defense, Favre wrote nary a word of Favre: For the Record. The book was entirely the product of Chris Havel, a Green Bay media personality.
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* Hallman liked to tell people that he was the answer to the trivia question, “Who caught Kenny Stabler’s last college pass?” And while it was a trivia question no one ever thought to ask, the answer was, indeed, Curley Hallman, who intercepted Stabler twice for Texas A&M in the 1968 Cotton Bowl.
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* Interestingly, Whitcomb wore uniform No. 10, which Favre had been denied upon arriving at Southern Miss. With 139 players on the roster, numbers were at a premium, and past standards were set aside. In other words, Reggie Collier’s retired number was no longer retired.
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* The game was most memorable for the aftermath, when Mississippi State players—during a victory-lap walk around Scott Field—stopped in front of the Southern Miss fan section and taunted, according to Tim Doherty of the Hattiesburg American, “with graphic gestures emanating from body parts below the waist.”
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* Turner died of intestinal cancer in 2000, at age 31.
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* In a 2010 Esquire profile, Marinovich spoke with a group of children and introduced himself like this: “I was the first freshman in Orange County to ever start a varsity game at quarterback. I broke a lot of records. Then I chose to go to USC. We beat UCLA. We won a Rose Bowl. It’s quite an experience playing in front of a hundred thousand people. It’s a real rush. Everyone is holding their breath, wondering, What’s he gonna do next? After my third year of college, I turned pro. Here’s a name you’ll recognize: I was drafted ahead of Brett Favre in the 1991 draft.”
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* “Ken Herock said that about me?” said Glanville in 2015. “The only time that man tells the truth is when his lips don’t move.”
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* It was the only touchdown reception of Taylor’s career. Years later, Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times visited the wide receiver, who lives in Southern California. Taylor showed Farmer the ball, which was scuffed and bloated from years of bouncing it off the asphalt in front of his house. “I figured I was gonna catch a bunch of those in my life,” Taylor said, “and nobody would know who Brett Favre is.”
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* Until 1994, the Packers played three games every season at Milwaukee County Stadium.
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* Fact: No animal or insect releases more methane.
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* A good read that features one of the most tasteless chapter titles in the history of the written word. Camer
on named the segment on Favre’s near-death car accident “Say Hello to Mr. Tree.”
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* A few weeks later quarterback Steve Young and the 49ers agreed to a six-year, $45 million deal. And Favre was the second-highest-paid player.
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* Anderson was cut at the end of training camp in 1998.
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* The film also featured Pat Morita, Roosevelt Grier, and MC Hammer. Which means, while it was poorly received and minimally viewed, it remains the finest film to ever feature Pat Morita, Roosevelt Grier, and MC Hammer.
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* Hasselbeck (Seattle) and Brooks (New Orleans) both became Pro Bowl quarterbacks after leaving Green Bay.
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* The Packers were correct. Manning was drafted first overall, Rivers fourth, Roethlisberger 11th.
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* White died of a heart attack in 2004; Favre served as a pallbearer at his funeral. McMahon, Butler, and Winters had retired.
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* Baker University is in Baldwin City, Kansas. Mike McCarthy isn’t its only famous alum. Baker also brought the world Andrew Cherng, founder of Panda Express.
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* In an interview with Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Moss explained why he didn’t wind up a Packer: “It was like they were telling me that they’re going to take a chance on me, but if you do come here these are the things you have to work out: ‘Be on your best behavior; Donald Driver is the top receiver here so don’t come in there trying to step on his toes.’ Things like that.”
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* It can be noted here that Favre rarely voted, and would probably be an awful presidential candidate.
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* New York’s star that night was Brett Ratliff, a fringe quarterback who threw two touchdown passes. The lead to the ensuing ESPN.com story was, “A new quarterback named Brett threw two long touchdown passes for the New York Jets.”
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* Wrote Michael J. Lewis, the veteran newspaper scribe: “Only Ted Kennedy knew less about sports than Bloomberg.”
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* The best suggestion by far was to hold a halftime ceremony and retire the No. 4 jersey in honor of Chuck Fusina, a backup quarterback who, as No. 4, threw 32 passes in seven games for the 1986 Packers.
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* I asked Barnett about this privately via social media. He wrote: “I never went out of my way to hurt anyone. I play at 1 speed—hard as fuck! It doesn’t surprise me at all. I was in Puerto Rico that offseason and ended up running into [Viking running back] Michael Bennett and he was surprised about how chill I was. He said that they hated me over there because of how I played. So it wouldn’t surprise me if their coach would do something so classless as to pay someone to hurt me. I never was offered money to hurt anyone. I played football where the object is to be as physical as possible.”
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* Ayodele disputed this account via Twitter, writing, “I said NOTHING nobody on the team did I’m still trying to figure out this bounty what’s he talking bout?”
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* According to Deadspin, the material was supplied by a third party, not Sterger. The website paid $12,000 for the photographs and voice messages.
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