The Packers are set to announce that they will retire Brett Favre’s number on Monday.
Monday’s announcement: Brett Favre will be inducted into the #Packers HOF in 2015 and have his No. 4 retired, per sources. Story coming.
— Rob Demovsky (@RobDemovsky) August 4, 2014
Favre and the Packers will reunite for the first time in 6 years to confirm the announcement.
Monday’s announcement will take place at 1:30 p.m. local time at Lambeau Field and will include appearances by Packers Hall of Fame Inc. president Perry Kidder, Packers president Mark Murphy and former Packers president Bob Harlan, who is a member of the Packers Hall of Fame executive committee. Favre will not appear at the event but will speak via telephone, the team said in an announcement Sunday night.
The signs of a reconciliation between Favre and the Packers have been apparent over the past year. Murphy said this offseason that the two sides had discussions about a return visit to Lambeau Field by Favre this past season, but it did not work out. Murphy has said several times that he hoped to have Favre inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame and have Favre’s number retired before he is eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.
Favre will be eligible for entry into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2016, and the Packers have made it known they want to have his number enshrined before he heads into Canton.
[ESPN]