Favre vs. Manning: A MUST SEE Underrated Shootout! (Packers vs. Colts 2004, Week 3) 

People really forget how other worldly good Peyton Manning was. He’s the only 5x MVP in NFL history. For perspective, no one else has more than 3. There’s never going to be another QB like him because he legitimately mastered playing QB. All the audibles and signals at the line of scrimmage, no one else does it like he did.

Underated only begins to describe this game. Another gem from the past nfl throwback 👏

When Peyton Manning throws the ball, it’s poetry in motion. When Brett Favre throws the ball, it’s backyard football with his friends.

Man. You wanna talk about my N.F.L. childhood-Favre with the Packers, Manning with the Colts, those classic mid-2000s Fox scoreboard and graphics, Joe Buck on the call. It doesn’t get more nostalgic than this, for me. Thanks for posting this! :)

2 of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history going head to head like these 2 are always a treat!!

NFL at its peak in 2004 and two legends facing off against each other. Plus, 2004 was the last year of NFL 2K5, when football games were actually amazing to play. I am feeling nostalgic right now.

I can't believe these guys played in the same era for another 6 years and never met each other.

They were supposed to meet in Super Bowl 44 when Manning was the MVP and Favre was having a career resurgence with the Vikings. However, a certain team in Louisiana had other plans.

Favre breaking sound barriers with those passes

Classic, classic, classic!!!! This game desperately needs to be aired in it's entirety either here or on NFL network. One of the top 5 regular season games ever to be played

First it was manning vs favre now it is Rodgers vs Rivers. This matchup will always be a legendary QB matchup

Reggie Wayne ran his comeback route about 5 times this game

The thing everyone loves to romanticize about Favre was that “Gunslinger” mentality. That never made him great. His great period was 95-98 and he was playing within Mike Holmgren’s West Coast system. He controlled Favre and kept him from making to many bone headed mistakes. Once Holmgren leaves, he starts making stupid mistakes. 6 INTs against the Rams, 02 Wild Card, 4th and 26, 04 Wild Card and can’t forget the 07 NFC Championship game. Favre really needed someone to hold him at that high level but he only had that for 7 seasons. Imagine how great he would have been if Holmgren had stayed.

This was, and probably always will be, the best game I ever watched in person!!! I remember being exhausted at halftime from going nuts during that first half!!! Manning and Favre were amazing!

My God. Peyton Manning is the greatest definition of a quarterback I have ever seen. He truly was a step above the rest. Preparation, mechanics as in footwork and timing, seeing things on the field. He is the true goat. Rings are a team effort. MVPs are what an individual player should be judged by.

Unreal thanks for HD! So often it seems that even NFL Throwback doesn’t have access to HD copies of games from early in the HD era, it’s so good to finally see this one in HD

Javon Walker. Wow! What a throw back to the last time the packers drafted a WR in the first round.

This is low key one of the best channels on RU-vid. They edit the games down to just the action so you can watch all the classics without having to devote 3 1/2 hours of your time to watch the full game. I wish they had more 90s Buffalo Bills games and generally older games from the 60s-80s, but that's my only gripe. Keep doing you, NFL throwback!

I wish we could go back to 04 quarterback times. You had Brady,Manning,Farve,Brees with newcomers Rivers,Big Ben and little Manning in there rookie years. That was before the nfl turned into college football and had power running and you could actually hit offensive players.

I remember watching this game, damn, Manning was a machine!!! But I just loved watching “The Gun Slinger” Brett Favre, go out there and compete, no matter the challenge.

Back when NFL games were this legendary

Fun fact: 2004 Colts only team with a trio of receivers to have 1000+ yards and 10+ TDs in the same season

Nice! An early 2000's HD game! Love when these are posted! For future reference, games that are in HD that I would hope get posted when games from these years are used: Super Bowls: 1999-present ABC: 1999, 1999 playoffs, 2003-2005 ESPN: 2003-present NFLN: All games NBC: 2006-present Fox: Select games each week 2004-2007, all games 2008-present CBS: KC-OAK 1998, NYJ-BUF x2 1998, 1998, 1999, and 2000 playoffs, select games each week 2003-2007, all games 2008-present

Greatest QB’s goin head to head is always legendary 🤩

2 years later: Titletown Indy.

8 MVPs between these two QBs.

Russell Wilson having a similar season with both of the QBs, great numbers with a lot of picks.

HD highlights! Thank you so much for using the HD version of this game!

Love the footage. Collinsworth sliding in and antagonizing Aikman is pure butter. Manning was threading the needle surgically. These were the good old days of Madden and 2k football. I actually enjoy Buck always mentioning no flags. I think if the NFL hears how many times an announcer has to verify with no flag, they understand how it takes away from the initial emotion of the result of thr play.

Greatest game I was ever in attendance at!! As Colts fan I got so spoiled during the Manning, James, Harrison, Wayne, Stokley, Clark, Freeney, Mathis & Bob Sanders years! Some of the greatest players of all-time were on my favorite football team!! Now we have Wentz😩

Really awesome game. Bunch of great plays, two of the best ever, and a close contest. Had to be fun to watch live. Great game, great video

Watched that game can't believe how much I remembered of it

Man this really feels like hd! Amazing, and thanks for the double upload!!

Great quality NFL Throwback. Great quality for a 2004 game

Great matchup between the sheriff vs the gunslinger. Would’ve been great to see them play in super bowl xliv. But of course “this is not Detroit! This is the super bowl!” Happened.....

Can't get a more exciting game that this one. Manning had an amazing game, the colts protected him well & he did the rest.

17:14 Wait... Doug Pederson like the Eagles head coach? He used to be back up qb for Packers??

I’ve been hooked on throwbacks lately. The best part is 99% of these games I haven’t a clue who wins or what amazing plays lay hidden in them. I can’t get enough!

This is great quality for 2004

I went to this game and still have the ticket stub! Go COLTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing game!

Wow that turf looked like chalkboard with HD in 2004.

15:39 Chargers win against Cardinals with a score of 7-1. Legendary Scorigami

It’s very hard to believe that this would only be the second and final time that these two quarterbacks would face off against one another on the same field.

Objectively 2 of the 5 greatest to play quarterback here.

This was the best era in NFL football. It was like the world was watching. Doesn't feel the same anymore.

I remember this game..chilling on the couch, hungover from a Purdue tailgate the day before. I was only raising my hands for touchdowns. as i knew our defense well

Yo I've been watching these throwback videos for about a week takes me back when I use to play blitz on Nintendo64 good memories

LETS GO COLTS!!!!!!!!!! 💙🤍💙🤍💙❕❕❕❕ Farve-Manning Rodgers-Luck and Rodgers-Rivers, every Colts Packers games are usually fun to watch!

This must've been an amazing day for fantasy football people. Unless you started a Colts running back. This was the year Peyton threw 49 tds, but I think he could've had 60. There were some games were Peyton had already four td passes by halftime and they called the dogs off halfway through the third quarter.

These NFL Throwbacks are a Godsend.

400k plus subscribers your work is paying off. Best of luck to you and this channel. I love seeing the content!

Oh wow! Awesome game! Thanks for sharing

Double uploads are the best days of the week

Nice quality 🔥💪

This video quality is awesome!

It’s crazy that they only played each other twice. This was the peak of Walker’s career. He and Driver were a lethal combination

we here in Columbia SC love both QB's because these (2 guys wrk hard never never cheat because they grew up tht way now both QB',, s r legends now

16 yrs later and buck still has the same routine. Pass is caught, touchdown, no flags

I was at this game, buddy of mine got tickets for my birthday. What I remember most is that the colts threw the ball, I think, the first 23 plays. Never seen anything like it. You’ll hear Joe Buck comment a couple of times about “not running the football”. And Farve kept coming back…what a great game

HELL of a game!

One of my favorite games I watched as a teenager. Love how Peyton's first half was better than Ryan Leaf's entire career

TWO LEGENDS.......TWO LEGENDARY QBS......IN THE NFL.............

Still surreal seeing footage from the early 2000's in HD

Awesome game! 20 warriors going at it all game long headed by their 2 Elite Warriors in a strong war on the Colt Battlefield!!!!

Yes. these were booth two amazing quarterbacks of there time. this game me the tingles. will watch this till I get really tired. it was that good. AKA. a Broncos fan 4 ever.

I scored so many points in fantasy football in this game that my league changed the rules mid-season lol... There was no rule against using a QB as a flex player so I had Manning, Favre, Stokley and Javon Walker.

I remember watching this. Top 5 game in regular season and the bledsoe vs marino game come to mind . Battles!!!

Crazy to see a game on old style astroturf in HD. Keep seeking out HD copies of the games where they exist.

Since you posted a crazy shootout for this one do you have the defensive struggle that was the Bucs/Rams 99 NFC title game? Or did you already post that one before

Greatest All Time Quarterbacks Are Going Head To Head In This Big Game.

I miss both of these guys. Another underrated one was their successors Luck and Rodgers playing in 2012. Classic game that went down to the wire.

I remember watching this game while my ship (Carl Vinson) was doing a pre-deployment workup cruise. Standing room only in M Division berthing lounge

Manning is the true GOAT. Won two Super Bowls with two different teams. Is 3 - 1 against Brady in the AFC's version of the Super Bowl. And he throws long touchdown passes and makes it look easy, never needed a Randy Moss to do it. Peyton Manning is my GOAT. Brady overrated

This was a beautiful game!! PM was the greatest at stepping up in that pocket!

4:46 I'm looking at this like "Ya'll blitzing Manning? Really??"

THANK YOU FOR POSTING MY CHILDHOOD

2 of the ALL-TIME GREATS!

It's a very intriguing debate on whose more fun to watch between the Manning brothers, Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, and Tom Brady when it comes to the primetime games.

Passing of the torch the best quarterback of the 1990s vs the best quarterback of the 2000s

That old school Astroturf was miserable to play on, but I love how it looks, so clean

Hey, I really like the content, it's amazing. I take that you weren't able to find that giants at eagles 2013 game? I apologize for constantly asking, it would just be nice if you can upload it. If not, I understand. Keep up the good work.

This is some high quality for 2004

War damn eagle thanks for the classic upload

I was there! One of the most exciting games I've ever seen.

OH MA GOD IVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS THANK YOU!!! The GOAT vs the gunslinger

Is it possible you could do the 2009 AFC championship? I saw someone reccomend this a couple days ago and that was a good game. High quality content btw.

Missed this offense, javon Walker started to become a class of his own and the first week of the next following year he injured on a play that didn’t even count and there goes Walker, never look the same after that

As a bear fan I wish I got see great quarterback play like this on my team every single Sunday 💯😭

Imagine owning any of these 3 Colts WRs in fantasy this year. I can't remember the last time you could get legit WR1 production from 3 guys on the same team.

It would be so cool if nfl throwback liked this

As a Pats fan, I respect both Peyton Manning and Brett Favre, but I would cheer for Favre over Manning. Brady and Favre are my two favorite QBs in the NFL.

I actually remember watching this when I was 9. Not the specifics just that it was a shoot out between Favre and Manning and that we won!

This was a great game but I’m just absolutely in awe of that turf. It looks like concrete.

Favre was so great, he made those around him play a higher level, even opposing teams.. the only 3x consecutive league MVP at a time when the league was full of talent and you could actually hit the quarterback

I was a huge Favre fan as a kid. When Favre loss to the Broncos in the Superbowl I was hurt Lol. I'm a Titans fan, but Greenbay was my team in the 90s because Favre.

How the Colts didn't have a Dynasty in the mid-2000's is beyond me.

2 of the greatest playoff underachievers at QB in nfl history. Peyton is probably the greatest regular season qb with brett just right behind him but the amount of one-and-dones he has in the playoffs with a first rd bye is mind-boggling. I can understand favre’s underperformance bc his reckless, gunslinger playstyle really fucks him up in the playoffs but for peyton he’s too methodical and intelligent to play so poorly in some games. His 2 SB wins weren’t even because of him tbh. in the 2006 run he threw 3 tds and 7 ints the whole postseason, but i’ll give him credit for the comeback against NE. The colts D really stepped up during the playoffs especially against the run when they were ranked 32nd during the reg season. Let’s not even talk about the pick 6 against tracey porter and putting up 8 pts against seattle with the best recorded offense in NFL HISTORY. I am saying this a huge peyton fan throughout his career and he’s still a top 5 qb alltime imo and he’s had his fair share of great playoff moments like 2003 against the chiefs and 2009 afc chip against the jets but it has to be said. He could easily be the GOAT qb if he performed in the postseason as well as he did in the regular.

2 QB's with 2 almost completely different styles for the position. Yet each style propelled them to SB's, MVP's, the HOF and all-time great status from now until God returns.

love early HD games

This was a great game. Questionable call aside, it was pretty revolutionary for its time. Donald Driver's tip toe touchdown was awesome.14:31