Since his retirement, Brett Favre has gone on report now a number of occasions saying he believes he suffered a whole lot if not hundreds of concussions throughout his soccer profession.
Favre reiterated this perception throughout an interview with OutKick’s Ricky Cobb this week. The total interview will air Friday morning at 11 a.m. ET.
One of many extra notorious Favre concussions occurred in 2004, when the Packers performed the New York Giants and Favre suffered the pinnacle damage. He threw a 28-yard landing move to Javon Walker, nevertheless it was later reported that Favre didn’t keep in mind throwing the move as a result of concussion.
Favre wouldn’t have admitted to what number of concussions he believes he had throughout or shortly after his enjoying profession, however he is develop into extra conscious of the have an effect on the game had on his mind lately.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM
Quarterback Brett Favre #4 of the Inexperienced Bay Packers makes an attempt a move in opposition to the New York Giants on October 3, 2004 at Lambeau Area in Inexperienced Bay, Wisconsin. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Photos)
Favre’s post-career mind well being explorations even introduced him head to head with the famed Dr. Bennet Omalu. Omalu is a forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist who was the primary to find and publish findings on power traumatic encephalopathy in American soccer.
Omalu was famously depicted by Will Smith within the 2015 movie ‘Concussion.’
Favre’s dialog with Omalu offered the previous quarterback with a sobering reply to a query he was interested in.
“I had a dialog with him, we have been in a convention name a few years in the past and afterward we had a quick dialogue,” Favre instructed Cobb. “I stated ‘when’s an excellent time to play sort out soccer’ and he form of chuckled and stated ‘I do know that People don’t wish to hear this, however by no means is there an excellent time for people to play sort out soccer.”
HIGH SCHOOL QUARTERBACK DIES AFTER BRAIN INJURY IN OPENING NIGHT GAME
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre heads to the sidelines after he throws a move intercepted by Chicago Bears’ Julius Peppers in the course of the first quarter of their NFC, NFL soccer sport at TCF Financial institution Stadium in Minneapolis, December 20, 2010. (REUTERS/Eric Miller)
Omalu carried out a well-known post-mortem of former Corridor of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers participant Mike Webster in 2002, which led to the re-emergence of consciousness of a neurologic situation related to power head trauma referred to as power traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
Nevertheless, in January 2020, The Washington Publish reported that Omalu routinely exaggerated his accomplishments and dramatically overstates the recognized dangers of CTE and make contact with sports activities, fueling misconceptions concerning the illness, in accordance with interviews with greater than 50 specialists in neurodegenerative illness and mind accidents, and a assessment of greater than 100 papers from peer-reviewed medical journals
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Brett Favre #4 of the the Inexperienced Bay Packers injured his leg on this play after throwing the ball as Dwight Freeney #93 the Indianapolis Colts purses him throughout a sport on the RCA Dome on September 26, 2004 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Photos)
Nonetheless, Favre has spoken out concerning the risks of soccer now a number of occasions lately.
In 2021, Favre appeared on the “TODAY” present and revealed a PSA for the Concussion Legacy Basis. He urged dad and mom to maintain their kids away from sort out soccer till they’re 14.
“(There’s) no telling what number of concussions I’ve had, and what are the repercussions of that, there is no reply,” he stated in 2021. “I wasn’t the most effective pupil, however I nonetheless can keep in mind sure issues that you’d go, ‘Why would you even do not forget that?’ However I am unable to keep in mind somebody that I performed six years with in Inexperienced Bay … however the face appears acquainted. These sort of points that make me marvel.”
Observe Fox Information Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox Information Sports activities Huddle publication.
