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Brett Favre played in plenty of meaningful games with 24 playoff starts Gabe Jackson Jersey , five appearances in the conference title game and two trips to the Super Bowl on the way to the Hall of Fame.with at least 400 yards passing and four more with at least five touchdown passes.When it comes to emotional games, one stands out above all the rest.Perhaps the signature moment of one of the NFL’s most storied careers for a quarterback came Dec. 22, 2003, when Favre took the field in Oakland for “Monday Night Football” the day after his father, Irv, died of a heart attack while driving in Mississippi.Few would have questioned if Favre decided to skip the game after getting the news, but he believed his father would have wanted him to play so he took the field the following night at the Oakland Coliseum for his 205th consecutive game.“It’s the most nervous I’ve ever been in a game,” Favre told NFL Network for a special on the 100 greatest games in NFL history. “I was so worried I would lay an egg. I think people who were watching would say, ‘Hey it’s understandable. His father just passed away.’ I didn’t want that, I wanted to play better than I had ever played before.”He did just that Donald Penn Jersey , throwing for 311 yards and four touchdowns in the first half alone on an emotional night that featured a respectful ovation from the usually hostile Raiders crowd.Favre finished the game 22 for 30 for 399 yards — 3 shy of his career best at the time — then embraced his wife, Deanna, on the field in the fourth quarter before flying back home to Mississippi after the game.The game left a lasting impact on NFL fans everywhere, especially those in Wisconsin who were die-hard Packers supporters. That included one 14-year-old high school freshman in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, who would become a star of his own one day.“I remember it extremely well. I mean I don’t know the stats, but I’m pretty sure that back in the state of Wisconsin there was probably 100 percent of televisions turned into that game,” Houston Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt said. “It’s really hard to explain what it felt like, I was young, so it’s not like I really understood everything that was going on. But even I could tell that something special was happening that night. … Favre was just chucking the ball up and it ending up in the Packers’ hands. It was a magical Lee Smith Jersey , special thing to watch and the emotions that you saw out of him and his family, it was cool to watch.”Here’s a look at how that memorable game affected each team in subsequent seasons:GREEN BAYThe performance was one of the last great moments in Favre’s career in Green Bay that had featured a Super Bowl title following the 1996 season, another trip to the title game the following season and three MVP awards.The Packers lost in overtime in the division round of the playoffs that season when Philadelphia converted a fourth-and-26 in the closing minutes to set up the game-tying field goal.Favre threw four interceptions in a wild-card loss at home the following season.Green Bay then drafted Aaron Rodgers in the first round in 2005 and Favre’s tenure in Green Bay ended when he threw an interception in overtime that set up the game-winning field goal for the Giants in an NFC title game win at Lambeau Field.OAKLANDThe loss compounded the mistake late owner Al Davis made back in 1991 when he disregarded his scouts and drafted Todd Marinovich instead of Favre.The 2003 season started a long run of losing after the team had won three straight AFC West titles and gone to the Super Bowl following the 2002 season in the only run of success following the move back to Oakland in 1995.Coach Bill Callahan was fired after the season. The Raiders didn’t post a winning record or playoff berth again until 2016.MEMORABLE GAMES1968: These interconference foes have met only 13 times ever and the only other memorable one was the first — a matchup in the second Super Bowl.Oakland won the AFL that year and it gave Davis a chance to deliver a blow to commissioner Pete Rozelle and the NFL. Davis was named commissioner of the AFL in 1966 and sought to bring down the more established league. Instead, AFL owners decided to merge with the NFL and the deal left Rozelle as commissioner. Davis went back to the Raiders to run the team.His chance at revenge was quickly snuffed out by the Packers in Vince Lombardi’s final game as coach in Green Bay.Bart Starr threw a 62-yard TD pass to Boyd Dowler to give the Packers a 13-0 lead in the second quarter and they were never threatened. Herb Adderley’s interception return for a TD against Daryle Lamonica made it 33-7 and the Packers won their second straight Super Bowl with a 33-14 victory. Antonio Brown did a great business deal for himself this offseason, forcing his way out of Pittsburgh and getting a big raise from his already lucrative contract when he went to the Raiders. He hopes some people learn from him.Brown says he hopes to use his social media presence to help people understand their own worth and how to maximize their earnings.“I want to encourage and inspire people on how to do better business,” Brown told Complex.com. “Talk about 1099s and the NFL and Nike and some of these companies only paying me five percent of my royalties. With my jersey sales, [which are] No. 5 in the NFL, the NFL pays me a million dollars at five percent. How much more are the NFL and Nike making off of me? That’s an extra 9 or 10 million [dollars]. So we’re just going to be educating people on things because I think the public is so outdated with information.”Brown does not think, however, that many other players are going to be able to take control of their situations the way he did.“I don’t think the NFL is changing Vontaze Burfict Jersey ,” Brown said. “I don’t feel like it’s getting better. The thing I was able to do was unprecedented. It’ll probably never be done again. For me to be able to have the same contract, and not even add a year, just add more money, I don’t think that had ever been done. . . . I think what it has done is really inspire players to take hold of their situation, run business better, make business boom, and do the right things in regards to your circumstance. So at the end of the day you can be in the best position.”Fans may need to be careful about being inspired to follow Brown’s lead: Most people who tried to do what Brown did would find themselves out of a job, not getting a better job.