GREEN BAY, Wis. — Brett Favre came through the home tunnel for pregame introductions at Lambeau Field approximately 170 times during the course of a 16-year career with the Green Bay Packers.

He entered twice through the visitor tunnel.

The two times he wore a purple and white helmet to a cascade of boos could have spoiled the lasting memory of so many trips out of the darkness and into the light of his sprawling backyard at 1265 Lombardi Ave.

They are the most recent recollections of what it was like to enter the stadium he once owned.

So, when Favre comes out to greet a crowd of 67,000 people Saturday night at Lambeau Field, he will enter through the home tunnel one more time.

And instead of the invectives he heard as a Minnesota Viking, the reception should take him back to the place he once was.

“This goes for any player who’s had a chance to experience even just somewhat close to what I’ve been able to,” Favre said in a phone interview this week. “Catch a touchdown pass, have a sack; it may be one, it may be 20. Run a touchdown in, whatever.”