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NFL legend Brett Favre offered an update on his ongoing battle with Parkinson’s disease on Monday during the latest episode of his podcast.
Favre revealed in September 2024 that he was diagnosed with the disease while testifying before Congress about welfare reform. Since then, he has kept his battle with the disease a secret.
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Green Bay Packers quarterback (4) Brett Favre warms up before playing against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field. (Tom Szczerbowski/USA TODAY Sports)
While talking about Philip Rivers returning to play in the NFL at age 44, Favre believed he could have played at least one series until he was 50. Favre said he was training rigorously until he began dealing with his health battle.
“I’m probably like most people: I thought there was just one Parkinson’s and that was it. There isn’t. There are multiple, many forms of Parkinson’s,” he said on “4th and Favre.” “And I have what’s called idiopathic, which is the most common. And I think the other thing that most people think about when they hear about Parkinson’s is that they think about tremors.
“Every once in a while they tell me, ‘Oh, you must not be so bad because you don’t shake.’ I have very few tremors. I have a few, but it’s pretty rare. But as I’ve learned, the Parkinson’s that I have has three different characteristics. You’ll have one of those three as the dominant side effect. It’s cognitive and memory is one. Tremors and tremors are two. And stiffness and stiffness are three. I specialize in stiffness and stiffness.”
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre appears before the House Ways and Means Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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The former Green Bay Packers star said he wakes up stiff until he takes his medication.
“So when I wake up in the morning before I take my medication, I’m as close to a 2 for 4 as I can get. And once I take my medication, it’s like my muscles and joints loosen their grip on me. When I get tired, mostly toward the end of the day, I shake a little bit. My cognitive memory, some of it, right now is fine. As you well know, there’s no cure. Every once in a while I hear, ‘Well, they’re five years away from a cure. I hope that’s the case. But I can’t hold my breath.”
Favre, 56, played in the NFL from 1991 to 2010. He was with the Packers, Atlanta Falcons, New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings in those 20 years.
Brett Favre visits FOX Business Network at FOX Studios on February 10, 2015 in New York. (Rob Kim/Getty Images)
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He passed for 71,838 yards and 508 touchdown passes. He won a Super Bowl title with the Packers.
