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Much of what's been known about legendary NFL quarterback Brett Farve has been kept between the goalposts.

So Greg Hengler took the three and a half hour long drive south from here in Oxford, Mississippi, where we broadcast this show, and sat down with Brett and his Hattiesburg, Mississippi home.

Here's Brett on tough love, telling the truth, and having a parenting style

that's different than his father's, and this is part two of our five-part series.

I coached two years of high school football, not because I wanted to.

The head coach here at the high school who I knew really well, kind of talked me into it.

I don't know, I don't really want to. It was the first year out of retirement.

And I ended up loving it. But I felt like I was really tough on the kids.

I didn't pick.

My dad and the other coaches picked a lot.

You big sissy.

Not so much me.

But, and of course at that time, that's all I knew.

Now, looking back, as a coach or as a person in that position, doesn't have to be a coach,

could be a teacher.

I think our job is to mentor rather than pick. I mean, in some respects, it's like bullying to where some of those

kids didn't even want to come around. And don't get me wrong, I would joke around with

these kids, but it would always be in a playful manner. And I knew that whoever it was that could handle it in fact it may it

may even help with team bonding but I would be really demanding on what I knew

they were capable of only because I I knew what they were capable of it's just like talking to your kids and you say,

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