Photo collage of images of former NFL and Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre at the 2015 NFL Legends game at Camp Randall Stadium. Collage also includes Legends game logo and Camp Randall 100 logo.

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Camp Randall 100: Brett Favre

Hall of Famer drew big crowds to Packers’ preseason games in Madison

General News

Camp Randall 100: Brett Favre

Hall of Famer drew big crowds to Packers’ preseason games in Madison

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The Camp Randall 100 is an exclusive list celebrating 100 people who have shaped Camp Randall Stadium's history across the realms of sports, music, culture and beyond. A new honoree will be revealed each day over the final 100 days leading up to kickoff of the Wisconsin football team's season opener with Utah State on Friday, Sept. 1. The Camp Randall 100 reveal is part of a year-long celebration of the history of the iconic stadium, which opened in 1917.
 

MADISON, Wis. — Brett Favre started an NFL-record 297 consecutive games across 19 seasons of his Hall of Fame career.

Though it's hard to say just how much jeopardy Favre's ironman streak was actually in, an injury in his final appearance with the Green Bay Packers at Camp Randall Stadium certainly brought the record-setting run into question in 1999.

Favre, playing in his sixth Packers preseason game at Camp Randall, smashed his thumb on a hit from Broncos linebacker John Mobley. "Of all my injuries, that was the toughest," he would say later.

Read more on Favre's appearances in Madison in his Camp Randall 100 profile.


Camp Randall 100 profiles through August 23, 2017:
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