Brett Favre Jersey Retirement in Green Bay in 2015 Along with Packers Hall of Fame Induction

 

Brett Favre Returning to Green Bay in 2015 for Packers Hall of Fame Induction and No. 4 Jersey Retirement Ceremony

The Packers have officially announced that Brett Favre will be inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame and retire his uniform No. 4 on July 18th, 2015. They also announced that during a home game in the 2015 season, Favre's name and number will be unveiled on the north facade inside Lambeau Field.

"I was always a Packer ... and it's like borrowed time elsewhere," Favre said from his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. "I played my heart out each and every year I played, and I'm proud of that. I was proud to say that I am a Packer and will always be a Packer and am honored that I've gotten the opportunity to do that.

"Yeah, it has been a roller coaster of emotions, and I'll be honest with you, in thinking about the ceremony and the unveiling at halftime, it almost has the same feeling when we beat the Cincinnati Bengals in the first game I played."

Former team president Bob Harlan was key in bringing Favre and the Packers back together and restoring their relationship. He shared, "I'm personally privileged today to welcome you and [wife] Deanna into the Packers Hall of Fame. It's great to have old friends home again."

"I never felt that way (about the Packer fans not accepting me back)," Favre said. "I don't want to speak for Mark or for Bob Harlan or the rest of the Packer organization, but I don't think anyone felt that way. I think we all knew it was a matter of time. The most important thing was, when was that time? You're never really right. There's always going to be people say you should have done it at this time, you should have done it at that time, you shouldn't have done it period and blah, blah, blah.

"But this is the right time, and that was never a concern."

"Their enthusiasm grew during the winter months, I thought, and Brett and I had a long talk about three weeks ago, and he was excellent about everything, positive, looking forward to it," Harlan said after the announcement. "I even said to him, 'You know, we can all learn something about the way LeBron James handled going back to Cleveland. Look at how Cleveland accepted him.' I said, 'That's what you're going to get.' It's just, it's something I wanted to try, and it worked, fortunately."

 

 

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