GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Brett Favre will go into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a Green Bay Packer. Or at least it feels that way.
To be clear, players don't enter the Hall as a member of a certain team, per se. Unlike the Baseball Hall of Fame, whose inductees must decide on which team logo they'd like to have depicted on their hat on their plaque -- if they spent portions of their careers on different clubs -- the Pro Football Hall of Fame requires no such delineation.
But after his acrimonious departure from Green Bay during the summer of 2008, and two emotionally charged seasons -- for both him personally and the Packers -- with the archrival Minnesota Vikings, the fact that Favre and the Packers are on speaking terms again in advance of his induction is a big deal to the Packers and their fans.