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PACKERS-BROWNS PRESS BOX NOTES
posted 12/23/01
HOT AT HOME: The Packers today will be in quest of the 11th victory in their last 12 home games and their 14th win in their last 18 games overall.
THE FAVRE FILE: Quarterback Brett Favre has been remarkably successful over his 10 seasons as Green Bay's starting quarterback, having compiled a 100-54 won-lost record overall, but the freewheeling Mississippian has been at his very best at home in December. He enters this afternoon's game with an 16-2 career record for the month, including a 1-0 mark in the current December.
Favre goes into action needing 3 touchdown passes for his sixth career 30-TD season, which would extend the NFL record he already owns. Dan Marino is next up, having had 4 such seasons. No other passer has had more than 3.
One behind the St. Louis Rams' Kurt Warner, with 3 games remaining, Favre is in a position to lead the league in TD passes for the fourth time. He thus would join Johnny Unitas (1957-60), Len Dawson (1962-63, 1965-66) and Steve Young (1992-94, 1998).
RUNNING BACK AHMAN GREEN can eclipse the Packers' all-time single season record for total yards from scrimmage with one of his more productive performances. He needs 161 yards rushing and receiving - a figure he surpassed on three occasions this season - to break the record of 1,805 yards, set by Dorsey Levens in 1997.
Green enters today's contest with 1,645 yards in 13 games (1,105 rushing and 540 receiving), an average of 126.5 yards per game.
The former Nebraska Cornhusker needs 71 yards rushing to better the first 1,000-yard season his NFL career - 1,175 - in 2000.
BY THE HUNDRED: Middle linebacker Bernardo Harris has scaled the 100-tackle plateau for the fifth consecutive year. The highly productive North Carolinian enters this afternoon's game with 106 tackles, including 66 solo stops.
The seventh-year pro, who has started 76 of a possible 77 games since becoming a starter, launched his "century" skein with 119 tackles in 1997, following with 121 in 1998, 108 in 1999 and a career-high 132 last season - for a total of 598 career stops to date.
FULLBACK WILLIAM HENDERSON needs 2 receptions to supplant Phillip Epps in 16th place among the Packers' all-time "Top 20" receivers. Henderson goes into action against the Browns with 191 catches - one fewer than Epps collected during a seven-year Green Bay career (1982-88).
QUICK QUOTE: Quarterback Brett Favre, on the shotgun formation, "You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't use the shotgun. These days, with zone blitzes, you don't get time (to look over the defense). In the shotgun, you buy some time."
DEFENSIVE END VONNIE HOLLIDAY, with seven sacks to date, needs just one - with three games remaining - to equal the best single-season total of his career, recorded when he was a rookie in 1998.
FELLOW DEFENSIVE END Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, with 3 games remaining, already has forged the Packers' highest single-season total - 13.0 - since 1998, when Reggie White closed out the year with 16.0.
ONLY FOUR TIMES in NFL history has a player returned 2 kickoffs for touchdowns in one game. A former Packer, Travis Williams, shares the record, having been the second player in league annals to perform that feat, via 85- and 87-yard scoring runbacks against the Browns at Milwaukee County Stadium on November 12, 1967. The others to turn this rare trick: Timmy Brown of the Philadelphia Eagles (vs. Dallas) in 1966, Ron Brown of the then-Los Angeles Rams (vs. the Packers) in 1985 and Tyrone Hughes of New Orleans (vs. the Rams) in 1994.
ONE HUNDRED STRONG, a group of "Christmas Dancers" (ages 5 to 18) will provide today's halftime entertainment. The presentation, under the direction of Rhodesia Butler, wife of Packers safety LeRoy Butler, will feature Santa Claus performing a tap-dancing routine.
NEXT WEEK: The Packers wrap up their 2001 regular season home schedule in an NFC Central Division matchup against the Minnesota Vikings in Lambeau Field next Sunday (December 30), with kickoff set for 12 noon, CST (Wisconsin time).
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