Favre Okay With Peyton Manning Breaking his Career TD Mark

On the outside, Brett Favre seems to be okay with the potential Peyton Manning has of breaking Favre's career TD record.

In an AP interview Favre told Arnie Stapleton of the Associated Press "I'm glad it's Peyton that's doing it," Favre said. "I think a lot of Peyton. I know him well. I know his family well. His dad was one of my idols."  


Favre played his college ball at Southern Mississippi and Archie Manning, QB for the Saints, was his idol. During his college career he led Southern Mississippi to signature wins over Florida State, then ranked 6th in the nation, and a very good Alabama team.

The Atlanta Falcons picked Favre with the 33rd pick in the 1991 draft. His first pass as a Falcon was a pick-six interception. He attempted 4 passes that year with 0 completions and 2 INTs.

In his 20 year career, Favre played for the Falcons in '91, the Packers from '92-'07, the Jets in '08 and the Minnesota Vikings from '09-'10. During his career the Packers won Super Bowl XXXI over the New England Patriots 35-21 and lost Super Bowwl XXXII to the Denver Broncos by a score of 31-24 ending a 13 year run by the NFC.

Favre's NFL records include over 70,000 yards passing, over 500 TD passes (508 - soon to be passed by Peyton Manning), over 300 INTs, more than 6,000 completions and over 10,000 pass attempts.

It is fair to say that Favre had quite an impact on the NFL and a quarterback who surpasses any of Favre's records will have to be considered one of the greatest QBs of all time.