Former New York Jets defensive end Mark Gastineau’s 20-plus-year grudge against Brett Favre will be featured in an upcoming ESPN documentary about “The New York Sack Exchange,” the dominant defensive line in the 1980s that featured Gastineau, Marty Lyons , Joe Klecko and others featured the late Abdul Salaam.

Gastineau confronted Favre at a sports memorabilia show in Chicago last year and accused him of giving a simple sack to New York Giants pass rusher Michael Strahan in January 2002, breaking Gastineau’s single-season NFL record break.

Favre and Gastineau shook hands and Favre mentioned how the two met in the past.

“Yeah, right — when you fell in love with (Strahan),” Gastineau said. “I will get my bag back. I’ll get my sack back, dude.”

A stunned Favre replied, “You’d probably hurt me,” to which Gastineau shot back, “Well, I don’t care. You hurt me. You hurt me! Do you hear me?”

“Yes, I understand you,” Favre said.

“You really hurt me. You really hurt me, Brett,” Gastineau said as Favre was led away by one of his handlers.

Gastineau’s feelings about the layoff record changed in 2020

Gastineau walked onto the field at Giants Stadium in 2002 to congratulate Strahan on breaking the record. But in February 2020, he admitted to ESPN’s Rich Cimini that he wasn’t happy with what he thought Favre did that day.

Responding to accusations that he had easily dismissed Strahan, Favre said after that game in 2002, “We didn’t choose him.”

“Everyone will tell you Brett Favre took a leap,” Gastineau says in the documentary.

Recently, Gastineau told Cimini that he had been waiting to confront Favre for a long time and that he believed Strahan and Favre were conspiring.

“I wanted to let him know it was a trash bag,” Gastineau said. “I’ve wanted to do this for a long time – many, many years. I only have one man left to go to.”

Since Strahan recorded his 22 1/2 sack to pass Gastineau, the record was tied in 2021 by TJ Watt of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jared Allen (2011) and Justin Houston (2014) each tied Gastineau with 22 sacks in a single season.

Gastineau’s frustration over losing the sack record nearly 23 years ago may have something to do with not being in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Despite being named the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year in 1982, being a four-time first-team All-Pro, a five-time Pro Bowler, a two-time NFL sack leader, and recording 107.5 sacks in his career, Gastineau never reached the semifinals of the Hall of Fame vote.