Brett Favre's streak ends due to injury, which seems to foretell that this will almost certainly be his last season.

And a nation wept: Brett Favre, Wrangler jeans spokesman, will not start at quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings tonight. Favre previously started in 297 straight NFL games in his nearly twenty-year professional football career. Equally reviled and revered by football fans across the country, Brett is a future hall-0f-famer known as much for his powerful throwing arm as he is for his wishy-washy attitude toward the possibility of his retirement in the past few years. During his glory days with the Green Pay Packers in the mid-nineties, Favre was the only player to receive three consecutive AP MVP awards; he led the Packers to two Super Bowls, beating the in New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXI. Even in his later years, bouncing first to the New York Jets after he delayed his retirement in 2008, Favre has been remarkably efficient. Off the field, he was recently embroiled in a sexting scandal, in which he allegedly left untoward voicemails on the phone of Jets cheerleader Jenn Sterger; a cellphone picture of (allegedly) Brett Favre’s penis was also recovered from the phone, causing Favre to apologize and shrink (pun definitely intended) from the media limelight. Regardless of his recent foibles and failing body, Favre has fully cemented his legacy in the NFL.