Brett Favre on Tough Love, Parenting, and Telling the Truth
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Brett Favre's father coached the legendary QB on many subjects—most of which shaped his training, practice, and play. The passing game? Not so much. But life itself? Absolutely. Here's Brett himself with the story.
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| 0:58.0 | Much of what's known about legendary NFL quarterback Brett Farve has been kept between the goalposts. |
| 1:04.0 | So our own Greg Hangler sat down with Brett Farv and is Hattiesburg, Mississippi home. Here's Brett on tough love, |
| 1:12.9 | telling the truth and having a parenting style that's different than his |
| 1:18.3 | fathers and this is part two of our five-part series. I coached two years of high |
| 1:25.8 | school football not because I wanted to the head coach here years of high school football, not because I wanted to. |
| 1:28.3 | The head coach here at the high school, who I knew really well, kind of talked me into it. |
| 1:34.3 | I don't know, I don't really want to. |
| 1:37.3 | It was the first year out of retirement. |
| 1:39.3 | And I ended up loving it. |
| 1:42.3 | But I felt like I was really tough on the kids. |
| 1:48.0 | I didn't pick. |
| 1:49.0 | My dad and the other coaches picked a lot. |
| 1:51.7 | You big sissy. |
| 1:53.0 | Not so much me. |
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