TABLE OF CONTENTS A LEGEND IS BORN 4 MORE THAN A STADIUM 8 TITLETOWN 12 LOMBARDI COMES HOME 18 PASSING THE TORCH 24 Timeline 30 Glossary 31 Index About the Author 32
A LEGEND IS BORN September 20 1992 was a sunny afternoon in northeast Wisconsin The Green Bay Packers trailed the Cincinnati Bengals 23 17 with just over a minute left in the game They had to go 92 yards with no timeouts and their backup quarterback was in the game Impossible For most maybe But on this day the backup quarterback was Brett Favre It took five plays and 53 seconds for a legend to be born FAST FACT Brett Favre got his break against the Bengals after starting quarterback Don Majkowski injured his ankle
Brett Favre prepares to drive the Packers offense to victory against the Cincinnati Bengals on September 20 1992
