After Favre, who’s the next Packer in Pro Football Hall of Fame?

One of the staples of the weekend of the Super Bowl is the announcement of the newest NFL Hall of Fame class. The 2016 class was loaded with candidates and there was plenty of hard decisions for voters to make.

He was joined by Tony Dungy, Marvin Harrison, Eddie DeBartolo Jr., Kevin Greene, Orlando Pace, Kenny Stabler and Dick Stanfel. Favre and Terrell Owens are both eligible for the first time, but the latter is going to have a tough go, given the competition. Favre, the three-time NFL’s Most Valuable Player, was also the league’s first quarterback to throw for more than 500 touchdowns.

It’s only partly defined by team success, including the Green Bay Packers’ 160-93 record during Favre’s 16 seasons there from 1992 to 2007.

Favre led the National Football League in touchdown passes four times, including three straight seasons (1995-97). He was a swashbuckling, freewheeling quarterback unafraid to sling the ball – for better or worse – down the field with abandon. Dungy is the first African-American head coach to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. He is second all-time in passing yards (71,838) and passing touchdowns (508).

But other hallmarks of his illustrious career? And no one has ever been sacked more.

Favre was given the keys to the vehicle as the Packers attempted to turn years of misery into winning.

Favre tormented the Vikings for more than a decade with the Packers before helping guide the Vikings to a memorable 2009 season.

And Saturday night, as expected, brought a much-deserved achievement for a quarterback whose style football fans are unlikely to see again anytime soon. His final seven years were with the Indianapolis Colts, where he won a Super Bowl in 2006. In 1979, two years after buying the team, DeBartolo hired Bill Walsh as coach and drafted quarterback Joe Montana, leading to an unprecedented run of success that included five Super Bowl titles. When Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith were selected in the same class in 2010, basically the first presentation went, “Um, Jerry Rice” and later someone spoke up and said, “Ah, Emmitt Smith”.