Seeing Red On Family Night

Yesterday the Packers wrapped up another annual "Family Night" intra-squad scrimmage with the popular "Shirt Off Their Backs" giveaway. For several years the team has picked seats at random to win practice jerseys of some of the more marquee players at conclusion of the evening. As usual, arguably the most desirable jersey to win was the red quarterback jersey, worn for the past three years by Aaron Rodgers.

For the first time one jersey was held back (Donald Driver's) to be given away online though a Packers/Fox/Chili's Restaurant promotion (see Packers.com for details concerning that one). (Also of note were the new Bellin Health advertising patches and obscured Reebok NFL "equipment" shield patches at the base of the collars.)

Although not offered in the giveaway every year, before his "retirement" Brett Favre's red practice jersey was clearly the one to hope for when it came time to call out the winning seat numbers. Favre practice jerseys are very scarce and are rarely, if ever, offered publicly.

Back in 2001, one lucky fan won the jersey Favre wore for the Family Night scrimmage. Here's a shot of Favre entering the field that night:

And here's the jersey ready to be given away (Fox News 11's Tom Milbourn has been doing this for a long time. I guess if you need an opinion on a Packers practice jersey, just drop Tom a line.):

Here's the very jersey. It shows more wear than most Favre gamers I've seen, partially due to the fact that it was worn in practices leading up to that intra-squad scrimmage.



Not worth as much as a true gamer, of course, but very cool nonetheless. Special note to the winner of the Rodgers jersey last night: How 'bout putting it up on eBay? I guarantee it would fetch a nice price.