Ok, so I don't know how many of you are football fans but I for one am a HUGE fan! I personally am a Green Bay Packer fan as well as a Brett Favre fan. Last year me and my sister (who is also ab Green Bay/Favre fan) got to take my two girls to see Favre and get his autograph. My 3 year old (who was 2 at the time we saw him) LOVED him and talked abut him all the time. A couple of months after seeing him, his wife Deanna (which just happens to be my sister's name too) wrote a book about her struggles in life and her battle with breat cancer. So after these two incidents I felt like I knew the Favre family personally. I feel like I have a connection with them. Is that weird? I do that with any biography type book. So anyway, has many might know Favre decided that he wanted to play again. After a LONG week the NFL FINALLY reinstated him. He and his wife went back to GB on Sunday. I won't bore everybody with all the details on the whole situation but basically Favre won't be going back to the Packers. I am having an EXTREMLLY hard time with this. Maybe it's because there has been so much drama with it all..but I know that the Favre family must be feeling TERRIABLE right now! I'm pretty sure that there were some pretty hateful things that had been said and done to them (just from what I've read and the press conferances I've watched). I can't IMAGINE what's going on in his mind. And then the other QB (Aaron Rodgers)...I can't imagine the emotional drama that's going on in his mind. But because I "feel" this closeness to the Favre family I am just well...depressed about it. I feel like it's happening to my own family. I feel like I should disown the Packers and go to another team...but then the thought of that makes me really sad too. And then another part of me says....Mindi IT'S JUST FOOTBAL...GET OVER IT!!! So, then I feel stupid for letting myself get all emotional over it.....AAAGGGHHHH
Is this just dumb or what?
Is this silly?
Hi. I've been watching this story also. My grandparents are from Wisconsin (but live here in Mississippi) and are HUGE fans. Also, the Favre family lives here in Hattiesburg, MS in the off season. We went to church with the Favre's at St. Thomas there, and my daughter was involved with their oldest daughter in many church activities.
His daughter was comfirmed in the catholic church with mine. I have the cutest picture of them together. Brett walked in. Everybody is all dressed up for the occasion. He's in jeans and a sweatshirt- just as laid back as they come. We almost bumped, I said excuse me, he smiled and stepped back. He's a real person like the rest of us- just with a lot of fame and money.
One lady in our church needed a $200,000 bone marrow transplant that insurance wouldn't cover. We had a fund raiser that raised $25,000 and a parishoner agreed to match it. Everybody knows it was the Favre family but they never admitted it.
We watched his pain killer addiction, her breast cancer triumph, his awesome career, and now retirement and this. I don't blame him for wanting to play. He's been working out this summer with a local high school team. Can you imagine those kids being able to tell their kids they once practiced with one of the NFL greats?!?!?
But I do think there are a lot of hurt feelings and it's a sad situation and bad way to end a legacy. I don't think it's silly to care about something like that. Green Bay was his 2nd home for years.
Keep supporting the Packers and enjoy Tampa or wherever he goes. Double your football pleasure. Somebody may eat crow at the end of the season for letting him go, or he may wish he hadn't come back. Gotta admire him for not just taking the $25 million to stay in retirement if he really wants to play. Heck, I'd stay retired for, like, a couple hundred bucks- now that's a deal!
<A HREF="http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com" TARGET=_blank>www.hattiesburgamerican.com</A> has got a Farve Watch going, if you are interested.
Best of luck to both sides- it's just a bad situation.
His daughter was comfirmed in the catholic church with mine. I have the cutest picture of them together. Brett walked in. Everybody is all dressed up for the occasion. He's in jeans and a sweatshirt- just as laid back as they come. We almost bumped, I said excuse me, he smiled and stepped back. He's a real person like the rest of us- just with a lot of fame and money.
One lady in our church needed a $200,000 bone marrow transplant that insurance wouldn't cover. We had a fund raiser that raised $25,000 and a parishoner agreed to match it. Everybody knows it was the Favre family but they never admitted it.
We watched his pain killer addiction, her breast cancer triumph, his awesome career, and now retirement and this. I don't blame him for wanting to play. He's been working out this summer with a local high school team. Can you imagine those kids being able to tell their kids they once practiced with one of the NFL greats?!?!?
But I do think there are a lot of hurt feelings and it's a sad situation and bad way to end a legacy. I don't think it's silly to care about something like that. Green Bay was his 2nd home for years.
Keep supporting the Packers and enjoy Tampa or wherever he goes. Double your football pleasure. Somebody may eat crow at the end of the season for letting him go, or he may wish he hadn't come back. Gotta admire him for not just taking the $25 million to stay in retirement if he really wants to play. Heck, I'd stay retired for, like, a couple hundred bucks- now that's a deal!
<A HREF="http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com" TARGET=_blank>www.hattiesburgamerican.com</A> has got a Farve Watch going, if you are interested.
Best of luck to both sides- it's just a bad situation.
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Mindi, one more note. The Mannings are from this area too, so we enjoy watching them. Peyton has the cutest personality. We used to love to go to youtube.com and type his name in the search engine to watch his Mastercard commercials. Our favorite though was his Saturday Night Live spoof of his United Way commercial. He's playing football with the kids and beaning them in the back of the head while they are running. He sends one to time out in the port-a-potty. It's a hoot!
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You don't know how much you have helped me. I see the Favre family in a different light than most people. I have often told my husband that I would LOVE to meet the family not for who they are (football player and all) but for WHO they are...the humble, sweet family that I see them as being. Most people just want to meet them because they are famous but I see something more in all of them. The things that Deanna has gone through has just touched my heart in so many ways. I read her book and even saw a transformation in Brett from when he first started playing football until now. I wish there was some way I could at least write to them and let them know that I really empathize with them, not just as a fan, but as a person....an indivadual with a family and kids. Anyway, thanks for sharing your personal experiances with them. I shared them with my husband as well. It really made my morning 
Mindi,
You can contact them a couple of ways. DeAnna has a website for her Hope Foundation and he has a fan club website- don't know for sure if it's associated with Green Bay or not.
I will do some checking for you. At the least I can give you their church address to send a confidential letter. They are very close to the priest- you'd have seen him in Brett's sky box on tv. They would get it to him.
Shoot, you could come to Hattiesburg and I can drive you right to his mailbox- lol. There's a huge iron gate and we might get arrested for stalking, but hey- you only live once, right?
I'll be back in touch. Bev
You can contact them a couple of ways. DeAnna has a website for her Hope Foundation and he has a fan club website- don't know for sure if it's associated with Green Bay or not.
I will do some checking for you. At the least I can give you their church address to send a confidential letter. They are very close to the priest- you'd have seen him in Brett's sky box on tv. They would get it to him.
Shoot, you could come to Hattiesburg and I can drive you right to his mailbox- lol. There's a huge iron gate and we might get arrested for stalking, but hey- you only live once, right?
I'll be back in touch. Bev
Hi Bev! I'm so excited that you keep replying!! Might sound desperate or silly but it seems like you are about the only person that can relate. Even others on here think I'm kinda silly about letting the whole thing get to me. Some probably even think I'm obesseive but that's not the case at all. I typed a little something on Deanna's website. Never heard back although I wasn't really expecting to. I'm sure she gets TONS of "fan mail" through that website when that's not really what's it for in the first place. I thought it was pretty funny what you said about going to his house..I live in Louisiana, about 2 hours from the MS border...lol. A man at our church keeps telling me I just need to go down 98 and I'll be able to see Favre's house from the highway. And then when you mentioned getting arrested...lol...that was GREAT!! I'm a preacher's wife which makes it even more commical!! Hattisburg headline: Louisiana prechers wife and friend arrested for stalking at Favre's home. Great stuff!! I might take you up on the offer with the church address though. I don't want anybody to think that I'm obsessed lol. Anyway, thanks again for replying! So are you going to be a Jets fan this year?
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I would put my energy into adopting a family that can use your assistance. Get involved in a soup kitchen or a church that reaches out to famlies in need. The rewards are greater than you can imagine.
The Farve family isn't what I call a family that needs anything. They have everything they will ever need.
There are thousands of people who need you and what you can give them.
The elderly in a nursing home would love to have 30 minutes a week of your time.
Hope this might help you. TRD
The Farve family isn't what I call a family that needs anything. They have everything they will ever need.
There are thousands of people who need you and what you can give them.
The elderly in a nursing home would love to have 30 minutes a week of your time.
Hope this might help you. TRD
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trd: I do all of those things. My family goes to several nursing homes once a week. I am very involved in my church as I am the preachers wife and have lots put on me. I give of my time and money as much as possable. The issue I was having with the Favre family was simply emotional. I empathize with people when things get emotionally involved. I could only imagine the emotional stress going on in that family. I've gotten over it all pretty much, however I can't help but think about how emotionally it must be to leave where you have been for 16 years and go somewhere else. They have to deal with all the moving and emotional stress of fitting it. I'm learning how to deal with it. There was just so much going on this week besides that situation that it all just came coming down on me.