Against Giants, Breaks Don’t Go Favre’s Way
Published 1/21/2008 by GREG BISHOP at NYT > Pro Football
In this season, when almost everything went right for the Green Bay Packers and their quarterback, Brett Favre expected victory right up until the very moment that he lost.
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