Favre is baaaaaaaack.
Favre is baaaaaaaack. (Getty Images)

NFL schedule leaks are coming fast and furious ahead of the official schedule release show on Tuesday at 8:00 PM Eastern.

You can head on over to our live blog to check out the most recent updates, but the big news of the day so far is this: the Green Bay Packers will host a Thanksgiving Day game for the first time since 1923, when they defeated the Hammond Pros, 19-0. Aaron Rodgers' squad will take on the Chicago Bears in the Thursday evening game, according to multiple reports.

The day will be momentous for more than one reason, as Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reports that the Packers will retire former quarterback Brett Favre's jersey that very day. Favre set the all-time record for consecutive starts during his time with Green Bay, winning three NFL MVP awards, eight division championships, two NFC championships and a Super Bowl. Favre eventually moved on to both the New York Jets and the Minnesota Vikings after leaving Green Bay, acrimoniously splitting with the team he played the majority of his career for after numerous summers of waffling over whether he'd return the following season. The retirement of Favre's jersey by Green Bay is a sign that the organization can forgive and forget, and is willing to welcome him back into the fold.

He retired from the game as the NFL's all-time leader in passing yards, touchdowns, completions, attempts, interceptions, sacks, fumbles and wins. His touchdown record was recently broken by Peyton Manning, but he still holds each of the others. 

Green Bay has a long history of Thanksgiving games, but they've almost all been played on the road. The Packers played every year on Thanksgiving from 1923 through 1932, then again in 1934 and 1935. After a 16-year hiatus, they traveled to Detroit to take on the Lions every Thanksgiving from 1951 through 1963.

In 1970, the Packers went to Dallas to play the Cowboys in their annual Thanksgiving contest, and they returned to Detroit in 1984, 1986, 1994, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2013.

In their 35 total Thanksgiving games, Green Bay sports a record of 14-19-2, good for a 0.429 winning percentage, the sixth-best mark among the eight teams (the Lions, Cowboys, Giants, Bears, Chiefs, Broncos and Cardinals are the others) that have played at least 10 Thanksgiving games.