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Favre to set another ironman mark
Posted by: under Vikings, Bears, Brett Favre, Vikings quarterbacks Updated: November 25, 2009 - 1:25 PM
When Brett Favre enters Sunday's game against the Bears, it will mark the 282nd consecutive game in which he has played. That will tie former Viking Jim Marshall's record for the most consecutive games played in NFL history by a position player.
This is not to be confused with the mark for consecutive starts, which no one is completely sure about because the records from Marshall's rookie season with Cleveland in 1960 are incomplete. In the Vikings' victory at Detroit in Week 2, Favre started his 271st consecutive game and passed Marshall for unofficial consecutive regular-season starts in league history.
When asked about the record, the 40-year-old Favre said he already thought he had broken it because of the consecutive starts streak. Informed this was a different record, Favre answered the question about what the streak meant to him and what he has done to be able to remain on the field since the 1992 season.
“At [Marshall's defensive end] position, it’s hard for anyone to play that many games whether it’s consecutively or whatever," Favre said. "I’m honored to be mentioned in the same breath with him. I really am. I’m honored that I’m still asked to do this, people still want me to play. I think for me I’d love to sit here and say there’s a secret that I can’t give out. I think God has blessed me with a lot of talent and the ability to use it and overcome certain injuries that may have kept the next guy out.
"Being hard headed, being lucky and in my case be willing to [say], if you’re injured, ‘I think can do it.’ I could have easily in a lot of those games not played and no one would have ever questioned me. A broken thumb on my right hand [in 2003]. [If] I say I can’t play what are you going to. … It’s not, ‘That guy, he’s a wimp.’ I was willing to give it a chance. By doing that at least you know what you can play with and what you can’t. There’s a lot of reasons and factors that go into it. I think once you’ve played this long it’s not one particular thing.”
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