Aaron Rodgers is back in Green Bay and his decision pleases Brett Favre, who knows a thing or two about mulling his future with the Packers.
“I assume that Aaron’s objective is to get to the Super Bowl. I think most people would assume that as well,” Favre said. “That being said, his best chance to get to the Super Bowl has been in Green Bay the last two years. They’ve written the script the way they’ve wanted it to look and they didn’t finish it. Home-field advantage, a bye, a prolific offense, their defense was playing well. Why deviate from that?”
Favre, who won a Super Bowl in Green Bay, ended up playing for two other franchises in the New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings.
The Hall of Fame quarterback retired and came out of retirement multiple times. Favre clearly loved the game of football, but he had a strong family life, as well.
Brett is married to Deanna Favre. The happy couple got married in 1996.
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The happy couple first met in high school in Mississippi.
“I remembered his cute blond cowlick and the way he sat in the bleachers in high school with the laces of his high-top sneakers untied,” she told GuidePosts.
“We got to know each other playing two-on-two basketball. I was just as much a jock as he was. One day he called me up and I could hear a lot of voices in the background saying, ‘Ask her, ask her.’ Finally he drawled out, ‘Will you go with me?’”
Deanna played a big role in Favre’s NFL career, particularly when it came to his battle with pain killers.
“It is really amazing, as I think back, how well I played that year. That was an MVP year for me,” he told Sports Illustrated‘s Peter King of his 1995 MVP season.
“But that year, when I woke up in the morning, my first thought was, ‘I gotta get more pills.’ I took 14 Vicodin, yes, one time. I was getting an hour or two of sleep many nights. Maybe 30 minutes of quality sleep. I was the MVP on a pain-pill buzz. The crazy thing was, I’m not a night owl. Without pills, I’d fall asleep at 9:30. But with pills, I could get so much done, I just figured, ‘This is awesome.’ Little did I know (fiancée and now wife) Deanna would be finding some of my pills and when she did, she’d flush them down the toilet.”
Thankfully, everyone is doing good now.
Perhaps we’ll see the Favre family in the stands at some Packers games next year.
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