A WTMJ-TV report  says Packers president Mark Murphy held a recent question-and-answer session on the team’s website. During the session he  revealed plans for helping to end a long rift between Favre and the team.

Murphy says Favre will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. He says the team wants to retire his No. 4 prior to that induction.

Murphy says he knows many fans were upset that Favre played for the Vikings. But he says as time has passed, wounds have healed and fans have refocused on all the great things Favre did as a Packer.

In other local football news,  Kenny Wilkerson, a longtime broadcaster familiar to New Orleans sports fans for his 17 years of work on WWL radio,  has died at age 52.

Lake Lawn Funeral Home in Metairie said funeral services for Wilkerson are set for 2 p.m. Tuesday after an 11 a.m. visitation. The Times-Picayune reports  that Wilkerson died Saturday after fighting cancer for several months.

Wilkerson worked at WWL radio for 17 years, as a beat reporter for the New Orleans Saints and on the station’s afternoon sports talk show. Wilkerson left WWL in 2008.

His most recent on-air work was as host of “Sports Talk Unplugged,” which aired weekly on WLAE television in New Orleans.