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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 941671" data-attributes="member: 7261"><p>Ron Wolf, the Packers GM at the time loved Brett Favre and saw his extreme talent.  The Packers had 2 first round picks in the 1992 Draft (#5 and #17).  They had gotten the #17 pick from the Eagles in another trade the previous year.  So Wolf was willing to pony up the #17 pick for Favre, who was never liked by Falcons coach Jerry Glanville.  As a matter of fact, I think Glanville was dead set against picking Favre in the draft and had a fit when they selected him in the early second round, a fact he later disputed (after Favre's success). Glanville even said something like "It'd take a plane crash for me to play Favre."</p></blockquote><p></p>

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