Green Bay Packers
Greatest Player: Brett Favre
Pound-for-pound, Brett Lorenzo Favre had to be the toughest quarterback in NFL history. At 6-2, 222, Favre endured as much abuse as any quarterback to ever play the game, yet he still managed to start 321 consecutive games, regular and postseason combined, for three different franchises, the Packers, Jets and Vikings.
The majority of that time was with Green Bay, as he lead the Pack to their first Super Bowl title in the post-merger era, and first one that really counted (the first two Packer Super Bowl triumphs were basically glorified exhibition games). Favre remains the only player to win three consecutive NFL MVP awards (1995-1997). When Favre retired, he held many NFL passing records that have since broken by Peyton Manning and/or Tom Brady.
Green Bay Packers
Runner Up: Bart Starr
Bart Starr was the biggest winning quarterback during the 1960’s and established the great Green Bay legacy of quarterbacks that eventually extended to Favre and Rodgers. Starr is another QB who doesn’t sport the most gaudy stats, yet his five titles (1961 and ’62, as well as 1965-through-1967) earns him instant credibility like few other passers.
Starr was MVP in the first two Super Bowls, which didn’t really count for much as it does today in the fully merged NFL. The first four Super Bowls were between separate-league NFL and AFL champions just to see who was better and for publicity. Since Super Bowl V (1970-71 season), the game actually determines the NFL champion in a unified league.
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Challenger: Aaron Rodgers
Most NFL franchises could only dream of a succession at quarterback like the Green Bay Packers had, going from Brett Favre to Aaron Rodgers. The fact that Rodgers fell to the 24th pick in the 2005 NFL Draft, and watched his hometown San Francisco 49ers pass on taking him with the #1 overall pick, looks even more reprehensible in hindsight.
Through the 2018 season, Rodgers has been named the NFL’s MVP twice, and to the All-Pro team three times (including two times as a first-team selection). His 103.1 career passer rating is the highest in the history of the NFL.