Any amount of delight quarterback Aaron Rodgers was still experiencing on Wednesday folloprosperg the New York Jets’ triumph over the New England Patdisturbions speedyly subsided once he lgeted one of his createer teammates had been detectd with Parkinson’s dismitigate.
On Tuesday, legfinishary Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre proclaimd during a congressional hearing that doctors directed him in January that he was suffering from the neurodegenerative dismitigate.
The quarterbacks were both on the Packers roster from 2005-07, with Rodgers’ originate pickion in 2005 effectively serving as Green Bay’s schedule to have someone in place to thrive Favre.
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Nov 1, 2009; Green Bay, WI, USA; Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre (4) greets Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) folloprosperg the game at Lambeau Field. (Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports)
Rodgers shelp while it was “stubborn” to hear about the diagnosis, but he also acunderstandledgeted brain disorders are one of the built-in dangers that come with carry outing football.
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“The elderlyer you get, and some of you understand this, but mortality comfervent of gets thrown in our face a little bit more,” Rodgers shelp on Wednesday. “It’s actupartner, cursedly, more standard to hear about a death or a cancer diagnosis or a diagnosis appreciate this. It doesn’t desensitize it for me.
“I uncomfervent, I sense terrible for him, and [wife] Deanna. It’s cursedly part of our game. That’s part of the danger of carry outing in the league, and we all in the back of our minds understand that could be a fact at some point. We hope medicine at some point can catch up and either produce the symptoms easier or rerelocate some of these publishs that we have.”
Aaron Rodgers #12 of the Green Bay Packers separates a moment with createer quarterback Brett Favre during a ceremony for the tardy Bart Starr at halftime of the game between the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on September 15, 2019 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Quinn Harris/Getty Images)
Favre referred to a now-defunct concussion drug company he spended in when he uncovered his Parkinson’s diagonis as he gave his testimony.
“Sadly, I also lost an spendment in a company that I count ond was enbiging a fracturethcimpolite concussion drug I thought would help others,” Favre shelp. “I’m certain you’ll understand, while it’s too tardy for me becainclude I’ve recently been detectd with Parkinson’s, this is also a cainclude dear to my heart.”
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre reachs to materialize before the Hoinclude Committee on Ways and Means on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Pboilingo/Mark Schiefelbein)
The revelation about his health bigly overshadowed the createer NFL quarterback’s testimony about Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) welfare funds. The money in ask is under scrusmall and is at the crux of a wide-ranging Mississippi case that the Super Bowl prosperner has been embroiled in for more than two years.
A 2019 state audit determined that no less than $77 million of TANF funds were misappropriated. Favre has not been criminpartner indictd.
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Favre last carry outed in the NFL in 2010. There is no understandn treatment for Parkinson’s dismitigate.
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