Aaron Rodgers shared a quarterback room with Brett Favre for his first three NFL seasons, backing up the Corridor of Famer with the Packers earlier than taking up the beginning job in 2008.
Rodgers stated that it was “powerful” to be taught of the 54-year-old Favre’s revelation Tuesday that he not too long ago was identified with Parkinson’s illness.
“The older you get, and a few of you understand this, however mortality form of will get thrown in our face slightly bit extra,” Rodgers stated earlier than Jets apply Wednesday in Florham Park. “It’s truly, sadly, extra regular to listen to a couple of dying or a most cancers analysis or a analysis like this. It doesn’t desensitize it for me.
“I imply, I really feel dangerous for him, and [wife] Deanna. It’s sadly a part of our recreation. That’s a part of the chance of enjoying within the league, and all of us behind our minds know that could possibly be a actuality in some unspecified time in the future. We hope medication in some unspecified time in the future can catch up and both make the signs simpler or eradicate a few of these points that we have now.”
Favre, who retired from the NFL in 2010, made the announcement Tuesday whereas testifying at a congressional listening to earlier than the Home Methods and Means Committee on welfare misspending and reform.
“Sadly, I additionally misplaced an funding in an organization that I believed was growing a breakthrough concussion drug I believed would assist others,” Favre stated in ready remarks. “I’m certain you’ll perceive, whereas it’s too late for me as a result of I’ve not too long ago been identified with Parkinson’s, that is additionally a trigger expensive to my coronary heart.”
Parkinson’s illness is a motion dysfunction of the nervous system that worsens over time with no recognized remedy.
Favre, who began an NFL document 297 consecutive video games, was referring in his testimony to Prevacus, a now-defunct concussion drug firm of which he was an investor.
Favre beforehand had been linked to the 2020 Mississippi welfare scandal; he was accused however not criminally charged for misusing welfare cash on private tasks.
That included prices for a brand new volleyball middle on the College of Southern Mississippi, his alma mater, the place his daughter additionally was a student-athlete.
When Rodgers was requested about being 321 passing yards from 60,000 for his profession, he additionally invoked how Favre used to deal with reaching milestones.
“I keep in mind after I was a younger participant, there have been a variety of data Favre was getting,” Rodgers stated. “I feel he acquired 421 touchdowns to move [Dan] Marino on the time. All of the yard markers that he had, the consecutive video games performed, and he used to all the time say, ‘it simply means I’ve been round a very long time.’ And I used to be like, I feel it’s slightly greater than that.
“I’m within the place now, and that’s what it looks like. It looks like I’ve been enjoying a very long time, and naturally this will likely be a part of the method, however I’m grateful to be enjoying nonetheless, and that there’s milestones like this to hit … However I’m grateful for all the fellows that caught passes from me and all the fellows that blocked for me. I couldn’t title all of them, however give me slightly time.”