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Brett Favre: Retiring No. 4 jersey during Packers-Bears game is 'right fit'

Published May. 21, 2015 9:40 a.m. ET

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This Thanksgiving, the Green Bay Packers will officially retire the No. 4 jersey, worn by Super Bowl champion and three-time NFL MVP Brett Favre.

The Packers will host the Chicago Bears that evening, as a long-standing rivalry celebrates one of its finest combatants in Favre. David Just of the Chicago Sun-Times describes the legendary Packers quarterback as a "noted Bears killer," citing his 23-16 record versus Chicago and his 3,810 career passing yards at Soldier Field, which rank fifth all-time.

This week, Favre sounded off on his jersey retirement ceremony being scheduled during a Packers-Bears game.

"I felt like that was the right fit," Favre said, according to ESPN's Rob Demovsky. "The tradition and the history between the Bears [and Packers] dates back long before any of us were around. Just some fun games and rivalries over the years, and so being a Thanksgiving game, just the magnitude of that in itself is huge. And to me, it's just the right fit, the right choice."

If Bears fans were having any lingering nightmares of Favre coming out of retirement one last time, this event should finally put them to rest.

(h/t ESPN, Chicago Sun-Times)

Photo Credit: Brian Bahr/Getty Images

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