This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is our American stories and we tell stories about all kinds of things on this show.

And one of our favorites has been our series of talks with Brett Favre 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 on Brett Farve 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.

I lost my father.

My wife got breast cancer.

I lost my brother-in-law.

My stepfather-in-law, I lost him, went through drug rehab

for pain pills, and then immediately after that we won the Super Bowl. So I think people

were kind of like, yeah, you know, he's one of us.

Sometimes you, you know, I too oftentimes, and I should know better, I look at someone

as in a prominent, whether it be

professional sports or

politician, an actor,

I really like Tom Hanks.

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