By Rob Demovsky | ESPN.com
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Nearly six years after he was traded away by the Green Bay Packers, Brett Favre and his former team will come together for the first time on Monday in what is being billed as a joint announcement by the former quarterback and the Packers Hall of Fame.
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According to a source, the announcement will be to say that Favre will be inducted into the team's Hall of Fame in the summer of 2015 and also will have the uniform No. 4 that he wore for the Packers from 1992-2008 retired. It was not immediately clear when the number retirement ceremony will take place.
The Hall of Fame, which is independent of the Packers but houses its museum at Lambeau Field, holds its induction ceremony annually in July. The museum is current closed for construction as part of the renovations in the stadium's Atrium. It is scheduled to re-open next April.
Monday's announcement will take place on Monday at 1:30 p.m. local time at Lambeau Field and will include appearances by Packers Hall of Fame Inc. president Perry Kidder, Packers president Mark Murphy and former Packers president Bob Harlan, who is a member of the Packers Hall of Fame executive committee.
Favre will not appear at the event but will speak via telephone, the team said in announcement on Sunday night.
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