--Late defensive end Reggie White will have his uniform number, 92, retired during a halftime ceremony Sunday. White becomes only the fifth player in the 87-year history of the franchise to have his number retired and the first since linebacker Ray Nitschke's 66 was retired in 1983. The other retired numbers are Tony Canadeo's 3, Don Hutson's 14 and Bart Starr's 15. White's widow, Sara, and their two children, Jeremy and Jecolia, will be on hand for the ceremony. Jecolia, 17, will sing the national anthem before the game.

--The team announced this week it will donate $100,000 to the American Red Cross for the Hurricane Relief Fund. Also, as part of a leaguewide effort, collections will be taken as fans enter the stadium Sunday.

--QB Brett Favre needs 65 passing yards to become only the third player in league history with 50,000 for his career. The others are Dan Marino (61,361) and John Elway (51,475). Favre also needs three touchdown passes at Lambeau Field to break Elway's league record of 180 TD throws in one stadium. Elway accomplished the feat while playing for Denver at Mile High Stadium. In three previous meetings with the Browns, Favre never has thrown an interception. It's the only team in the league not to have picked off a pass against the Packers' 14-year starter. His completion percentage of 68.5 (61-of-89) is his highest against one team. Favre has thrown for 572 yards and six touchdowns.

--PK Ryan Longwell needs to make a field goal Sunday to equal his own team record of 14 straight games of converting a field-goal attempt. His record was attained spanning the 1997 and '98 seasons.

--In being held to three points at Detroit in the season opener, the Packers had a franchise-record streak of 77 games of scoring a touchdown snapped, which also was the longest active streak in the league. They also had passed for a touchdown in 41 consecutive games, the second-best streak in NFL history behind the 49 recorded by the Baltimore Colts from 1956 to '60.

BY THE NUMBERS
2 - Previous games between the Packers and Cleveland in Green Bay since the Browns originally entered the league in 1950. The Packers won 23-12 in the 1965 NFL Championship game and 30-7 in a 2001 regular-season contest.

QUOTE TO NOTE
"He was the epitome of what I think an NFL man should be. He was a great locker-room guy. He went out and loved the game, played hard every Sunday. He loved to joke around and play with everybody that would come by him. He just had an aura and a presence about him that I would be proud to even be mentioned in his circle of friends." --C Mike Flanagan, a Packers teammate of Reggie White from 1996 to '98, on White.

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