Brett Favre on Humility, Aging, and Faith (Pt. 4 of 5)
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, much of what’s known about legendary NFL quarterback Brett Favre has been kept between the goal posts. So Greg Hengler sat down with Brett Favre in his Hattiesburg, Mississippi, home where Brett shared stories about humility, aging, and faith, in this fourth part of his five part series.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:14.2 | This is our American stories, and we tell stories of all kinds here, folks, as you've come to love and know, we're always trying to get |
| 0:22.6 | stories in the voice of the person telling them. We try and get out of the way, step as far back |
| 0:28.2 | as possible. And we'd love to get stories behind stories. And Brett Farb's life, we've been digging |
| 0:33.5 | in deep. And this is the fourth part of a five-part series, Brett Farv's life outside |
| 0:40.3 | of the goalposts, which is what we're interested in here on this show, not Brett |
| 0:45.1 | Farv, a football star. That's interesting. But who's the man? What's life like before and after? |
| 0:52.3 | Who were his parents? Where did he grow up? |
| 0:54.9 | How did he deal with fame and everything after? |
| 0:58.2 | Here's Brett Favre getting personal about his faith, about humility, and about aging. |
| 1:05.2 | I can't speak for other people, but we, we, and I say we, more me, |
| 1:11.0 | but we tend to lean on God when we need him. |
| 1:15.9 | Going to rehab, spending time by myself, |
| 1:18.6 | like open a Bible. |
| 1:20.8 | God, I need some help. |
| 1:22.2 | I can't do this alone. |
| 1:25.4 | And I remember asking people not, and we still are active in the Catholic Church. |
| 1:32.3 | In fact, Father Tommy, our priest is one of our, we take him on vacations and do all kinds of stuff. |
| 1:39.3 | But like leaning on someone, and I've had enough adversity to walk me through the Bible. |
| 1:51.0 | You go to rehab three times, you lose your dad, the end lost her brother out here on a four-wheeler accident. |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah, he was 19 years old. |
| 2:03.6 | Yeah. |
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