NEW YORK,
July 28, 2016
/PRNewswire/ -- Legendary NFL quarterback Brett Favre, who will be inducted into the Pro
Football Hall of Fame this August, will be a host this upcoming
season on SiriusXM NFL Radio, SiriusXM's exclusive 24/7 NFL
channel. It will be the first regular sports media role for
the three-time NFL MVP since he retired after the 2010
season.
Favre will host a series of hour-long broadcasts during
this season that will showcase the traits that made him a
fan-favorite – his passion for the game on the field and his
easy-going personality off it – and will give SiriusXM listeners an
opportunity to interact with one of the game's all-time
greats. He will make his debut on SiriusXM NFL Radio on
August 5 (6:00
pm ET) with a special "Town Hall" style show live from
Canton, Ohio, where he and other
members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2016 will be
enshrined the next day.
After the Hall of Fame show, Favre will host the show live
on a regular basis starting in September. He and co-host
Bruce Murray will discuss the
headline news happening around the NFL, analyze the league's teams
and players, and share his experiences from his career and his life
since retiring. Listeners nationwide will have the
opportunity to call in to the show and talk with a player who
rewrote the game's record book over his extraordinary 20-year
professional career.
SiriusXM NFL Radio is available to listeners nationwide on
channel 88 on satellite radios and on the SiriusXM app for
authenticated subscribers with the SiriusXM All-Access
package.
"I am looking forward to working with SiriusXM NFL Radio
this season," said Favre. "I've been a listener, both when I
played and after I retired, and it's a great place to talk about
the game. I'm excited to talk with fans and weigh in with my
opinions on what's happening in the league, and it'll be fun
talking to some former colleagues now and then."
"Brett was a once-in-a-generation player. His
career, and particularly the enthusiasm with which he played the
game, enthralled all football fans," said Steve Cohen, SiriusXM's SVP of Sports
Programming. "His passion and free-spirited personality are
perfect for radio. We are thrilled to have him make his debut
on SiriusXM NFL Radio and we're excited to give our listeners
access to the insight and expertise of one of the greatest players
to ever play the game. His debut show in Canton, and every show after, will be
must-listen radio."
Favre was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the second
round (33rd overall) of the 1991 NFL Draft after
starting for four years at Southern
Mississippi. After his rookie year he was traded to
the Green Bay Packers and saw his first significant NFL action in
week three of the 1992 season after an injury sidelined incumbent
QB Don Majkowski. It marked the first of 299 consecutive
regular season starts for Favre, a record that may never be
surpassed. In that breakout season he passed for 3,227
yards. It was the first of 18 straight seasons in which he
surpassed the 3000-yard mark (an NFL record), and he exceeded 4,000
yards in six of those seasons.
From 1995 through 1997, Favre won three straight NFL MVP
Awards after leading the Packers to three consecutive NFC
championship games, resulting in two Super Bowl appearances,
including a 35-21 victory over the New England Patriots in Super
Bowl XXXI. By the end of the 2007 season, his last in Green
Bay, he held all the major all-time NFL passing records - for
attempts, completions, yards and touchdowns. He continued to
play at a high level in three more seasons with the New York Jets
and the Minnesota Vikings. The 2009 season was one of his
finest, when he threw for 4,202 yards and registered a career-high
107.2 passer rating while leading the Vikings to an appearance in
the NFC title game.
Following the 2010 season, Favre stepped away from the NFL
having played 302 games. His 6,300 completions and 10,169 pass
attempts remain NFL records, and he is second on the all-time lists
for career passing yards (71,838) and TD passes (508). He was
recognized with 11 career Pro Bowl selections and honored as a
three-time First Team All-Pro by the Associated Press, Pro
Football Writers Association, and The Sporting
News.
SiriusXM NFL Radio is about to enter its 13th
season offering in-depth radio coverage, 24 hours a day, 365 days a
year, of the NFL. The daily programming lineup features shows
hosted by NFL experts and interviews with players, coaches and
executives from around the league, plus in-depth coverage of the
NFL's marquee events, training camps and more. Favre joins a
roster of analysts on the channel that includes Hall of Famers
Tim Brown, Mike Haynes, James
Lofton, Anthony Munoz and
Bill Polian, as well as Gil Brandt, Mark
Dominik, Brad Hopkins,
Maurice Jones-Drew, Pat Kirwan, Anthony "Booger" McFarland,
Jim Miller, Kirk Morrison, Mike
Nolan, Brady Quinn,
Phil Savage, Takeo Spikes, Ross
Tucker, Solomon Wilcots and
other NFL experts and insiders.
Go to www.SiriusXM.com/NFL for
more info. Follow the channel on Twitter
@SiriusXMNFL.
Follow Brett Favre
on sqor.com at
https://sqor.com/profiles/39229, and SiriusXM
NFL Radio at
https://sqor.com/profiles/163132.
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