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This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, a show where America is the star and the American people.

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

So our own Greg Hangler took the three and a half hour long drive and he sat down with Brett

Farve in his Hattiesburg, Mississippi home.

And by the way, Greg grew up a mere walking distance, almost spitting distance, from Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Here's Brett with his story.

Well, my mom and dad are both from the Gulf Coast.

My dad's from Gulfport. My mother was from Past Christian, which probably doesn't mean anything to you, but right on the beach. And my dad grew up not far from the beach.

Gulfport is kind of right in the smack dab in the middle of the Gulf Coast, Mississippi Gulf Coast.

So if you, as you came down from Oxford, you eventually got on 49.

If you'd take 49 all the way until you can't take it no more, you would be in Gulfport.

So that's where he grew up.

My mom and dad met at Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College.

My dad played baseball and football there.

And then they dated, eventually got married.

I think they got married while they were at Southern Miss.

So they left junior college, came here.

My dad played baseball.

Then they started having kids. My older

brother Scott is two and a half years older than me. We all were born in Gulfport,

Gulfport Memorial Hospital. So there's Scott, me, my younger brother Jeff, and our

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