This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed human.

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.

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

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