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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Ohio’s sold on Brett Favre
His jersey already sells better than any other NFL player in the state of Ohio, so how do you think sales will be today?
Except for the Cheesehead Nation, Brett Favre’s popularity went up another notch or two after he led the Minnesota Vikings to 30-23 victory over the team with whom he was so long synonymous — the Green Bay Packers — in a Monday Night Football game in Minneapolis.
In so doing, he became the first quarterback ever to beat all 32 NFL teams.
Favre completed 24 of 31 passes for 271 yards and three touchdowns against the team he played for for 16 seasons and led to two Super Bowls, winning SB XXXI.
This isn’t the first time the grizzled quarterback — just a few days shy of 40 — has caught everyone’s attention while on the Monday Night stage.
For all his heroics against the Packers, it didn’t match that night six years ago when — immediately after the death of his father — he threw for 399 yards and four touchdown’s to beat Oakland before going home to bury his dad.
It’s performances like that one — and the one Monday night — that have made Favre so popular.
According to data from Reebok — published recently by the Wall Street Journal — Favre had the best selling jersey of any player in the NFL from April of 2009 until the preseason ended just one month ago.
Favre’s jersey was the single best seller in 19 states — including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin and his native Mississippi.
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