Future NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre is known as one of the toughest players to ever play in the league. However, three years removed from playing his last snap in the NFL, Favre says he wouldn't want his son playing the game.
“It's a violent sport, and for two reasons I don't know if I'd let him play,” Favre said, via PFT. “The pressures to, you know, live up to what your dad had done, but most importantly the damage that is done by playing. I don't know if I would let him play.”
Favre said something very similar back in November on why he wouldn't want his son playing football.
"I would be real leery of him playing," adding: "In some respects, I'm almost glad I don't have a son because of the pressures he would face. Also the physical toll that it could possibly take on him, not to mention if he never made it, he's gonna be a failure in everyone's eyes. But more the physical toll that it could take."
Favre adds that he has dealt with some "scary" memory problems since he has retired.
"I think to me the wakeup call was (wife) Deanna and I were talking recently, and she was talking about Breleigh, our youngest, playing soccer," Favre said last fall. "I've pretty much made every game that she's ever played (in) basketball, volleyball. She played softball one year, she played basketball a couple years. As I find out, she played soccer. I don't remember her playing soccer. She played right over here, and that was probably where my first inclination that something ain't right."
Favre spent 20 years in the NFL, where he was sacked a total of 525 times and probably hit to the ground a lot more than that. I guess you can see why he wouldn't want his son going through all of that.
