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

But our own Greg Hengler took a drive to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to learn the rest of the story, as we do so often here at our American stories, are Brett's

life. And what we've come up with is a five-part series about a lot of things. This one has to do

with the day. On December 22, 2003, the day after his father's fatal heart attack, and his father's

name was Irvin, Brett Farr played in a must-win Monday night football game against the Oakland Raiders.

Farve dealt with the grief in the best way he could imagine.

He played his heavy heart out.

Here is Brett Farv with part three of our five-part series.

That game, of all the games I played, I played in 321 games, played in two Super Bowls.

By far, not even close, the most pressure and the most nervous I've ever been was in Oakland

game.

And it wasn't, it had nothing to do about will I or will I not play as people who were

thinking leading up, understandably so.

I mean, do you think he'll play?

I knew I was going to play, but I was so afraid that I wouldn't play.

I wanted to honor my dad by playing lights frigging out.

I didn't want to just play.

Even though I would have gotten a free pass.

Say you play, we win, he played crappy.

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