By Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter Published Apr 27, 2018 at 1:06 PM

On Thursday, former Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield was drafted with the first overall pick by the Cleveland Browns. But the night before, the dynamic, demonstrative Heisman winner posted a fantastic photo on Twitter that paid homage to another southern gunslinger, with whom Wisconsin fans are very familiar, from 27 years ago.

Mayfield recreated the famous draft-day picture of Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre from 1991. In the photo, the future NFL Hall of Famer is receiving a phone call – on a classic and humongous old-fashioned cell phone – from the Atlanta Falcon, who selected Favre in the second round of the draft and traded him to the Packers the next season.

Mayfield, who wasn't even born until 1995, went to wonderfully great pains to nail his adaptation of Favre’s photo, taken by the Biloxi Sun Herald, in which he’s surrounded by friends and family at his home in Fenton, Mississippi. 

Mayfield and his family decorated the wood-paneled bedroom with photos and posters, donned 90s-style wigs, wore similar shirts – including white tees with "NFL Draft" and the date written on them, just like in Favre’s picture – and found an old cell phone and video camera. Best of all, Mayfield, copying Favre’s reclined pose and easy smile, wore jorts.

Mayfield – a talented former walk-on whose achievements and antics on the football field have, at times, elicited polarizing opinions of him as a player and person – possesses an Aaron Rodgers-sized chip on his shoulder. In his post Wednesday night, Mayfield included a quote from Favre that captured his mentality:

"There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can’t do any wrong, even when you do wrong," Mayfield wrote. "And then there are those people that no matter what you do they’re going to dislike you and that’s not going to change."

A known jokester during his time in Green Bay, Favre appreciated the tribute and had a simple message for Mayfield on draft night:

Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter

Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.

After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.

Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.