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about life outside of the goalposts. And that's what we do here on this show as often as possible. Tell the rest of the story, and in the main character's voice. without interference from us. This is the fifth part of a five-part series.
I'm Brett Favre and with Brett. And this one focuses on living and playing in the small blue-collar city of Green Bay, Wisconsin. and the trials he faced, trials that forced him through the doors of a drug rehab center three times. And the thing that happened twice. which nobody knew.
Here's Brett Farf. Throughout my 16 years in Green Bay, things happened. Lost my father, my wife got breast cancer, I lost my brother-in-law. My stepfather-in-law, I lost him. Um went through drug uh rehab for pain pills.
And then immediately after that we won the Super Bowl.
So all I think people We're kind of like Yeah, you know. He's one of us. Mm.
Sometimes you the you know, and I I d I too oftentimes And sh I should know better. I look at someone as Um in a prominent Whether it be Professional sports or politician, an actor. I really like Tom Hanks. There's not many people I would want to meet. In fact, he's probably the only one.
If I had a chance to meet someone, I'd love to meet Tom. But he seems like just to. Regular guy. But also Like like everyone kind of said After Kobe died, it's like, you know. He's not supposed to die.
And I think people look at athletes and celebrities and politicians sometimes as Um immune to whatever. And of course that's not the case. And so I lived it. Um And I think being in Green Bay certainly helped. 'cause it was a perfect fit for me.
Um Maybe Yeah. I don't think I realized it until several years in that This was tailor-made for me. Not LA, not New York, not Chicago, not all the cities are bigger. Because people could relate to me and I could relate to them. Very similar to.
to where I grew up and not a whole lot different than Hattisburg. other than the climate, you know, just hardworking blue collar people. Um And so I think they could identify with me. And I just happened to be their quarterback.
So It was a perfect, perfect fit. And I think, you know, like with Aaron Rodgers, and he's a friend. They love him because he's their quarterback, but they don't really. connect with him. And that they can identify and they can relate to me.
Okay.
So, you know, yeah, like with Tony Mandrich, and I saw his story. I was actually my first year in Green Bay. He went through training camp and got cut.
So I got a chance to know him, and I just remember. Thinking, what happened to this guy? I remember doing my press conference in 1996. Right before Well When I got out, it was the day before training camp. But when I went in, treatment.
I spent seventy five days too. Um Because I was uh Uh a little bit rebellious. Um Well, I didn't want them to. They told me everything I needed to do. I had to sign in to go to lunch with the group.
When I finally realized uh If I want to get out of here, I better do exactly what they say. That was about seventy-five days into it. But anyway. I remember the press conference and how difficult that was to to announce that I had not only to go to treatment, But for pain pill addiction. 'Cause I had everything going That was That season ended up being my third MVP season in a row.
So I it I'd had two previous. And but it was amidst the The just the heart of my addiction. I mean, it it was at its worst. surprisingly that I was able to function like that. Yeah, they're Play at a high level and sleep maybe an hour a night.
taking 15 Viking in the US at one time. But it was a great it it was great to have it happen. in Green Bay. Yeah. Um All the things that's happened to me, I was thankful it happened in Green Bay.
So Yeah. And you know, I mean, being from there. They love their Packers, but they love their people too. Uh people ask me Uh 'cause I actually went three times. The first time I went to a place in Rayville, Louisiana and It it it look I couldn't believe when I pulled up to this place.
I said, this is a rehab. I thought it was like some.
Some Sanford and Sun type place. It was like a little shack, but it was good. I stayed there twenty eight days. I would stop one thing and continue another.
So I wanted to drink, but I would. Uh The pain pills was a 75 day in Topeka, Kansas vinegar clinic. The Rayville, Louisiana was prior to all that. and that was for pain pills. But I wasn't ready to stop.
Mm-hmm. The league didn't make me go. I went. voluntarily Even though I have my arm is twisted. I'd had two seizures.
In Green Bay. in the hospital right after ankle surgery, after the after the previous season. That w so 95 season. And then during the Excuse me, after the 94 season. The 95 season was the season before we won the Super Bowl.
During that season I had a seizure the night before game. which people obviously didn't know. And um That really kind of started the ball rolling like Why are you having seizures? While I wasn't sleeping.
So my brain was basically short-circuiting it. And you just heard a remarkable story. A three-time MVP Hall of Fame quarterback. Running on one hour of sleep. A serious pill habit.
and suffered two seizures, two And no one knew about him. And you're hearing about that for the first time here. Not because we like breaking news. That's not why you tune in here. But to hear the real story and the real humility and he's not kidding when he says he's glad he was in Green Bay.
Because this country boy Tucked away in Los Angeles or New York or Chicago and The ending would have been much worse. You've been listening to Brett Favre. This is the part five of a five-part series here on our American stories in his own words. By the way, Tony Manderich. What a story.
We've done that one too, in Tony's own words, from the heights. of NFL's success to drug addiction and worse, And then the rise up, and we love the redemption story here. And we're always rooting for people when they're down, whether they're in a prison. Or anywhere else. When they're at their low, That's what we love to come in and love on them.
and we treat 'em as if they're members of our own family, just like you would. And If you have stories like this, they don't have to be some big fancy football quarterback story. Because in the end, that's why people related to Brett. He was like the rest of us. And he is.
These people are no different. And we all know that it's we who treat them different and put them on these. statues and then when they fall we rip them apart and it's just so wrong. Brett Favre's story here. on our American stories.
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