Any amount of happiness quarterback Aaron Rodgers was still experiencing on Wednesday adhereing the New York Jets’ triumph over the New England Patdisruptions speedyly subsided once he lobtained one of his establisher teammates had been determined with Parkinson’s disrelieve.
On Tuesday, legfinishary Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre proclaimd during a congressional hearing that doctors adviseed him in January that he was suffering from the neurodegenerative disrelieve.
The quarterbacks were both on the Packers roster from 2005-07, with Rodgers’ write 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) adhereing the game at Lambeau Field. (Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports)
Rodgers shelp while it was “hard” to hear about the diagnosis, but he also acunderstandledgeted brain disorders are one of the built-in hazards that come with joining football.
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“The agederer you get, and some of you understand this, but mortality comardent of gets thrown in our face a little bit more,” Rodgers shelp on Wednesday. “It’s actuassociate, unblessedly, more common to hear about a death or a cancer diagnosis or a diagnosis enjoy this. It doesn’t desensitize it for me.
“I uncomardent, I sense horrible for him, and [wife] Deanna. It’s unblessedly part of our game. That’s part of the hazard of joining in the league, and we all in the back of our minds understand that could be a truth at some point. We hope medicine at some point can catch up and either create the symptoms easier or delete some of these rehires that we have.”
Aaron Rodgers #12 of the Green Bay Packers splits a moment with establisher quarterback Brett Favre during a ceremony for the rescheduleed 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 consentd was enlargeing a shatterthcdisesteemful concussion drug I thought would help others,” Favre shelp. “I’m certain you’ll understand, while it’s too rescheduleed for me becaengage I’ve recently been determined with Parkinson’s, this is also a caengage dear to my heart.”
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre get tos to materialize before the Hoengage Committee on Ways and Means on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Pboilingo/Mark Schiefelbein)
The revelation about his health hugely overshadowed the establisher NFL quarterback’s testimony about Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) welfare funds. The money in ask is under scruminuscule and is at the crux of a expansive-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 criminassociate accused.
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Favre last joined in the NFL in 2010. There is no understandn remedy for Parkinson’s disrelieve.
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