A Quote by Brian Urlacher
I was a huge Brett Favre fan, because how could you not like him as a kid playing football? Then getting a chance to play against him was pretty damn cool.
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I mean, all kinds of good memories against Favre. Even when we lost, it was fun playing against him.
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