Mourning Favre returns from funeral, ready to get back to playing football
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Brett Favre rejoined the Green Bay Packers on Thursday with a heavy heart and a desire to resume preparations for the upcoming season.
The Green Bay quarterback was excused from Packers practices earlier in the week to return home to Mississippi for the funeral services of his wife's stepfather, Rocky Byrd, who died Saturday after suffering a heart attack.
"As I was flying back up ... as much as any other time in my career, I was really, I shouldn't say excited, but I was ready to get back here and get on with football," Favre said during his first news conference of training camp. "If I wasn't playing, retired, and was at home, it would be much more difficult to be in that environment."
Favre, the NFL's only three-time MVP, has endured a lot of personal sadness the last few years. His father, Irv, died of a heart attack a day before the Packers played at Oakland in December 2003. The brother of his wife Deanna died from injuries sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident on family property in Hattiesburg, Miss., in October 2004.
A week later, Deanna was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Brett Favre's childhood home in Kiln, Miss., where his mother still lived, was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
"It's tough. This one was probably as tough as any," Favre said of Byrd's death. "Surprised. (For) the whole family, it's been difficult, very difficult, and will be."
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