Favre's team in the Series: The Rockies

The Colorado Rockies, down 3-0 in the World Series, hope they can pull off a comeback like those engineered by Packers quarterback Brett Favre.

If it helps, he's in their corner.

Dick Monfort, one of the Rockies' owners, is one of Favre's business partners. He put up the money for the Brett Favre's Steakhouses in Ashwaubenon and Milwaukee.

They met in a bar in Kansas City in 1995, according to the Denver Post. Also in the bar that night: Frank Winters, the Packers' center at the time, and former major-league pitcher Rick Sutcliffe.

"We were all there and we all just hit it off. And we've been friends ever since," Favre told the Post.

Monfort was in Kansas City that night to pick up the Packers' Reggie White, who had agreed to attend a birthday party for Monfort's 4-year-old son. Promised a ride back to Green Bay, Favre tagged along.

First, though, the plane went to Greeley, Colo., for the party.

"We're flying over Kansas and Brett said, 'Geez, it is flat down there,"' Monfort told the Post. "And I said, 'Yeah. Kansas is flat.' He said, 'What the hell are we doing going over Kansas?"' He thought I said we were going to Greenleaf first."

-- Jeff Ash, jash@greenbaypressgazette.com