Given name Brett Lorenzo Favre ... Born in Gulfport, Miss. ... Grew up in Kiln, Miss. (pronounced KILL) ... Married long-time girlfriend Deanna Tynes on July 14, 1996, after a 12-year courtship, the couple has two daughters, Brittany (born 2/6/89) and Breleigh (born 7/13/99) ... Earned five letters in baseball (he led team in batting all five seasons) and three in football at Hancock North Central High School in Kiln, where his father, Irvin, was his coach ... Played quarterback and strong safety, also serving as punter and placekicker ... Played in Mississippi high school all-star game following senior season ... Had his high school jersey (No. 10) retired in April of 1993 ... Then had the No. 4 jersey he had worn at Southern Mississippi retired in September of 1993 ... Subsequently was inducted into the Southern Miss Sports Hall of Fame in April of 1997 and was named to the Southern Mississippi Football Team of the Century in 2001 ... Father pitched for Southern Mississippi baseball varsity ... Older brother, Scott, played quarterback for Mississippi State and younger brother, Jeff, was a free safety on Southern Mississippi football team ... Sister, Brandi, is a former 'Miss Teen Mississippi' He grew up idolizing a pair of Southern quarterbacks, Saints' Archie Manning and Cowboys' Roger Staubach ... He started in 1996 the 'Brett Favre Forward Foundation,' which, in conjunction with his annual golf tournament, celebrity softball game and fundraising dinner, over the past seven years has donated in excess of $1 million to charities in his home state of Mississippi as well as to those in his adopted state of Wisconsin ... Among the groups he supports in Mississippi are Special Olympics, Make-A-Wish, Candlelighters for Childhood Cancer (a support group for families of children with cancer), MHG Development Foundation (which promotes community wellness through Memorial Hospital), Hope Haven (a home for battered women and children) and Gaits to Success (therapeutic horsemanship for the mentally disabled) - the latter two are located in the county (Hancock) where he grew up. In Wisconsin, he has given to the Rawhide Boys Ranch, Make-A-Wish, Special Olympics, CASA of Brown County (which supports abused and neglected children), Cerebral Palsy of Wisconsin, the UW-Whitewater athletic program for athletes in wheelchairs, Starbright (a program available at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin through which sick kids are able to use a private, broadband computer network that creates an online community of hospitalized children across the country and enables them to connect with one another) and the Young Artists Workshop, a summer arts enrichment program at St. Norbert College (De Pere, Wis.) for youth with disabilities He taped a public service announcement in the 2000 offseason for local and state Red Cross Awareness, himself more aware of disaster-type situations after experiencing a harrowing, early March tornado at his Hattiesburg, Miss., residence, the storm heavily damaging his property and leaving him fearing for his life He held the third annual 'Brett Favre Celebrity Softball Game' this past June 9 at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wis., the event, attended by a sellout crowd of more than 6,500 fans, generated roughly $90,000 for his foundation - all of which stayed in Wisconsin; in three years the event now has raised $290,000 ... Also has raised more than $857,000 for the Boys & Girls Club of Green Bay over the past seven seasons by donating $150 for each touchdown pass and rushing TD he has, a monetary total augmented by matching corporate contributions; he generated $190,350 in 2001, after raising $105,000, $61,500, $93,200, $112,800, $164,600 and $131,250 in the 1995, '96, '97, '98, '99 and 2000 seasons, respectively ... Ran a similar program, benefiting a scholarship fund at Southern Miss, during the 1997 and '98 seasons, which raised roughly $250,000 ... Has hosted an annual fundraising dinner benefiting the Brett Favre Forward Foundation in September the past three years, with previous years' events featuring Hall of Famers Starr and Paul Hornung; in three years the event has raised more than $225,000 ... He received the 'Community Service Award' from the Green Bay Chamber of Commerce in August of 1997 in recognition of his work with the area Boys & Girls Club, in addition to Special Olympics and Cystic Fibrosis ... Has worked at Thanksgiving with the Salvation Army in Green Bay and Gulfport, Miss., to donate food baskets to needy families ... Was named as one of 100 Good Guys" in sports by The Sporting News in July of 2000 in recognition of his civic responsibility and character ... Gave time during the 1993-95 seasons as the Packers' player representative to the state Punt, Pass & Kick competition ... Had his fourth grade teacher, Billy Ray Dedeaux of Hancock North Central Elementary School in his native Kiln, Miss., named as the NFL's 'Teacher of the Month' for September, 1994. Formerly was a co-owner, along with Dale Jarrett, of a NASCAR Busch racing team, sponsored by Rayovac Currently has a joint venture with Jarrett, 'Jarrett/Favre Driving Adventure,' which is traded publicly on NASDAQ, the business allows individuals the opportunity to ride with a professional driver He is a partner in the 'Brett Favre Steakhouse' in Green Bay ... With his family, in 1999 published Favre Family Cookbook: Three Generations of Cajun and Creole Cooking from the Gulf Coast, combining the best of Mississippi-style seafood with the award-winning recipes of the Brett Favre Steakhouse, recipes from the entire family along with family anecdotes and photos ... He has been one of the country's most marketable athletes since leading Green Bay to a Super Bowl victory in January of 1997 ... This year will appear in national advertisements for DirecTV and Hershey's Chocolate ... Had a national endorsement with Visa in 2001 ... Appeared in national commercials for Pennzoil and Mitsubishi electronics in 2000 ... Also appeared in commercials for Real Pure Beverage Group, a Mississippi-based company which produces bottled water and a vitamin-fortified sports drink, in 1999 and 2000 ... Also had a national TV ad for Motorola wireless communications in '99 ... Previously appeared in national ads for 'NFL Sunday Ticket' in 1998 and '99, including the memorable '98 spot where he was pushed around in a supermarket shopping cart ... Was the featured subject in a 1999 Right Guard national TV spot, where he was shown as if on a safari; wife, Deanna, also appeared in the commercial ... Continues his endorsement of Nike, having appeared previously in national commercials for the shoe maker He previously was in national television spots for Edge Shave Gel (along with then-teammate Reggie White) and Choice Hotels ... Also did a national 'Milk Mustache' ad, which was on billboards in 1997 ... Has had endorsement deals with Sunny Delight, Yamaha, Toro, Rawlings, Sprint, Pepsi, Repel Insect Block, Cellular One (regional) and Koss headphones ... Also has served as a spokesman for the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, Bergstrom Automotive (Wisconsin car dealerships), Acclaim video games, Kohl's department stores and Fun Jet Vacations Also is involved with the NFL Quarterback Club ... In conjunction with Hallmark, marketed the Brett Favre Christmas tree ornament in 1999 ... Had over 2 million of his candy bars, the 'Brett Favre MVP Bar,' sold through fund-raising groups in its first year (1997-98), the most ever sold by the Morley Candy Company ... Sold over 100,000 copies of his authorized autobiography, entitled Favre For The Record, which was published by Doubleday late in the summer of 1997, an updated version of the book which included a chapter on the '97 season and Super Bowl XXXII came out in paperback in September of 1998 He made an appearance near the end of the hit 1998 movie There's Something About Mary as the boyfriend of co-star Cameron Diaz ... Previously had made a cameo as a janitor in Reggie's Prayer, the 1997 movie project of White ... Was a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in the days following Super Bowl XXXII, later in the 1998 offseason he played himself in one episode of the weekly HBO series Arliss ... Had made appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Late, Late Show with Tom Snyder in the days immediately following Green Bay's Super Bowl triumph over New England in January of 1997 He previously had a cameo on The Tonight Show the week of Super Bowl XXX from Phoenix ... Is an avid golfer, he carries a handicap in the "one to two" range - down from the 15 he carried as recently as 1998 ... Also enjoys fishing and tending to his home and land on the 460 acres he owns in Hattiesburg, Mississippi"
