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Flynn (10) threw for 480 yards in a 45-41 win (Photo: Getty)

1/1/12: Flynn the Money

The NFL history of the Green Bay Packers has been written by aerial legends: Bart Starr, Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers, and...Matt Flynn???

Titletown's single-game record for passing yards and touchdowns is held by Flynn, a seventh-round pick of the Packers in the 2008 draft. Flynn had made a single start entering Week 17 of the 2011-12 NFL season, when he was called upon to relieve a resting Rodgers before the top-seeded Packers began their playoff trek. Despite the relative lack of stakes, Flynn wowed audiences with a 480-yard, six-touchdown showing as the Packers earned a 45-41 victory over the Detroit Lions.

Flynn's output was enough to convince the Seattle Seahawks to shell out the big bucks: a three-year, $20.5 million contract awaited in the ensuing offseason, along with the implication that Flynn was the team's new franchise man. Alas for Flynn, the drafting of a third-round pick named Russell Wilson changed everything. He lasted only two more seasons in the NFL after that, a stretch that included a return to Green Bay in 2013-14.