GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Brett Favre says he thought both his left leg and his NFL-record consecutive games streak were broken when Washington's LaVar Arrington sacked him last weekend.

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Favre heard his knee pop and felt a searing pain as Arrington slung him to the ground and fell on him Sunday.

"I thought honestly my leg was broken,'' the Green Bay Packers quarterback said Wednesday after trying on his new knee brace.

Favre quickly got to his feet to see if could walk: "I wasn't sure when I stood up if my leg was going to be dangling or what.''

Relieved he could put weight on it, Favre, the league's only three-time MVP and the NFC's leading passer at age 33, was still worried about his knee. That's why he cried when he was carted off to the locker room, he said.

"I'm thinking, 'Is it going to be three games? Eight games? The rest of the year,''' Favre said. "Anytime you hear you got a ligament torn, you expect the worst.''

Favre, however, only sprained the lateral collateral ligament in his left knee, which doctors expect to be stiff for another week and sore for up to two months.

The Packers, who are idle this week, expect him to play in their next game, Nov. 4 against Miami, extending his NFL-long 164-game streak, by far a league record for quarterbacks.

Favre figures he'll have to wear the brace in games, although it shouldn't adversely affect him much because he plants off his other leg and his mobility isn't what it used to be anyway.

"If you're able to play, you understand you're playing with some pain and some restricted movements,'' Favre said.