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Brett Favre

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lawdog Grand Master

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All Packer/Viking rivalry aside for minute.

I saw on the news his family home was destroyed by the hurricane. Good news is all his family is OK. Wouldn't wish that on anyone, and certainly not a guy who's been through what that family has in the last year or so.

Best wishes to him and his family.

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I saw that last night too. Boy that family sure has had their blows the last few years, huh.

It looks like it's going to be a mess down there for awhile. Many people are going to have a rough go of it here in the near future. My best goes out to everybody that has to deal with that.

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Or atleast CERTAIN players! I'm sure Brett Favre will find a way to help out his native Louisiana homeless by contributing millions upon millions of dollars right?? I'd sure think he'd help, what do you guys think?

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Who Cares!!!

Brett Farve is a good QB, but making News all over the place because his house was destroyed....ohh my god there's hundreds dead and theyre talking about him. I just can't wait to hear madden yapping about Farve and how big of a warrior he is and he can still throw TD passes when his house was ruined. I can already hear it now, Brett Farve, Brett Farve, Brett Farve is all the devistation he's still throwing a tight spiral. Please there's much worse going on than Brett loosing his house.

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Lets jump off our soapboxes here, IM guessin Favre doesnt smile every time he sees his business splattered all over the papers, this isnt about venting cause the media made a story out of his tragedy its a post about someone who lost their house to a natural disaster. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone down there. On a side note, there is two guys from a different place i frequent that have not heard from their families, two of which are his children, this is a bad situation down there so lets keep positive thoughts and say some prayers for the people down there. smile.gif

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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- The Green Bay Packers flew to Nashville on Wednesday for their final preseason game -- but only after loading the team airplane with generators and other emergency supplies to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Quarterback Brett Favre was among the Packers with relatives and friends in the Gulf Coast region that has been devastated by the hurricane.

Favre had the blessing of coach Mike Sherman to drive a truck with supplies to Hattiesburg, Miss., where his wife and children were at home, after the team got to Nashville. But with many of the roads in Mississippi impassable and the airports closed, Favre reconsidered.

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For now, ``what I've done is try to get the word out,'' he said.

Favre, with the help of equipment manager Red Batty, rounded up supplies, including generators, food and water, that were loaded onto the chartered plane.

``When we get to Nashville, there's going to be a guy who drives (the supplies) to Hattiesburg,'' Favre said after the team has a workout in the Don Hutson Center. ``From there, hopefully, we can disperse this even further south.''

``To think that we're going to try to play football and enjoy it, it's difficult.

Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair teamed up with Favre and arranged to fill a tractor-trailer with relief supplies.

The co-MVP of 2003, who has a home near that of Favre, also is offering to swap an autographed photo in exchange for each minimum donation of $100 to his foundation. Those funds will be distributed to victims in rural Mississippi such as his hometown of Mount Olive, Miss.

McNair's personal manager, Raymond White, said the news coverage has concentrated directly on the Gulf, such as Gulfport and Biloxi, which is where the first emergency relief trucks are headed.

``You still have others ... that've been hit, too,'' White said. ``That's what Steve is trying to do is hit some of those rural areas where there might be only one gas station around, to help out people.''

White said McNair and Favre worked out the details by telephone for tractor-trailer that was filled with water, canned foods, generators and other supplies.

Favre's childhood home in the Gulf Coast town of Kiln, Miss., was destroyed by the storm.

Wide receiver Javon Walker also was among the players profoundly affected by the disaster.

He said he received a phone call Wednesday morning from his mother. She informed him that his grandparents and two uncles can't be found in Moss Point, Miss., which is just outside Biloxi.

Walker's parents drove from their home in Texas to search for Lucille and Paul Goldsmith, both of whom are in their 80s, and their sons, Paul and Earl Goldsmith.

``Obviously, dealing with what they're going through, it puts a lot of things in perspective for me, as far as family and friends,'' Walker said. ``I just want them to be safe because sometimes, you take for granted what our grandparents do for us.

``I'm just going to pray for them and hope that everything is OK.''

With lines of communication wiped out, Packers linebacker Ray Thompson isn't sure how many of his family members are holding up.

Thompson's mother, grandmother and a number of aunts and cousins reside in various parts of battered New Orleans.

``I just can't watch the news. Everything is just bad news,'' Thompson said.

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it sounds to me that some of you cant put your diffrences aside, if you are that much of a horses (Contact US Regarding This Word) that u think that it is about favre and not the people that are suffring then u are (Contact US Regarding This Word). there are hundreds if not thousands of people dead and all u can say is i hope i dont hear madden talk about favre. he and all the other profesional sports figures need to use their fame to help these people, and i say KISS MY (Contact US Regarding This Word) to those who think sports are greater then life!!!!!!!!

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Favre learns Miss. family home destroyed

NFL.com wire reports

GREEN BAY, Wis. (Aug. 30, 2005) -- Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre spent most of the last two days nervously waiting to hear from family members in his hometown of Kiln, Miss., in the heart of the Gulf Coast area devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

The Packers said Favre finally spoke to his mother, Bonita, late in the afternoon when she was able to reach him with the help of a Houston television station in the area covering hurricane damage.

According to the team, Favre said his mother reported spending the night of Aug. 29 in the family attic, along with his grandmother, after the house filled up with water within a matter of 5-10 minutes, much like a tsunami.

The next day, the water receded enough that she was able to leave the family home and go to his brother Jeff's nearby house, which is slightly higher and away from the water.

Bonita Favre told Brett that Hurricane Camille, which the family experienced in 1969, didn't compare to this one and the damage it has caused.

She indicated the family home is destroyed and probably will have to be bulldozed, but the good news is that everyone in the family appears to be fine.

Bonita, Jeff and another brother, Scott, decided against evacuating and instead gathered at Favre's childhood home in Hancock County, one of the areas hit hardest by the hurricane. Favre said his grandmother, aunt and other family members also were there.

Favre said earlier that he spoke to his wife, Deanna, on the night of Aug. 29 and again the next morning. He said she and their two children, 16-year-old Brittany and 6-year-old Breleigh, are safe at Favre's home in Hattiesburg, 60 miles north of Kiln, although their property had extensive damage.

Favre's mother was seven months pregnant with him when Hurricane Camille, which killed 256 people in Louisiana and Mississippi in 1969, struck the area.

"I've seen pictures," Favre said. "The damage was unbelievable."

Favre said the fact his family waited out Camille likely factored into their decision not to evacuate this time. Favre said 50 or so family members and friends drove north to his Hattiesburg home, but his mother and brothers declined.

Kiln "is far enough inland that (you would think) there's no way a tidal surge would ever come that far," Favre said.

Favre admitted he was "kind of going through the motions" in practice while waiting to hear from family members and said he plans to go home to Mississippi following the preseason finale Sept. 1 at Tennessee.

He said he could get permission from coach Mike Sherman to skip the game altogether and fly there immediately, but his wife told him there's no point because the area is unreachable.

The hurricane is the latest in a string of personal tragedies and misfortunes that have hit Favre over the past 20 months.

In December 2003, his father Irvin died of a heart attack. Last October, his brother-in-law was killed in an all-terrain vehicle accident on Favre's property. And a few days after her brother's death, Deanna was diagnosed with breast cancer.

"I've found myself over the last 24 hours a couple times saying, 'Why me?' Or, 'Why of all places ... ' " Favre admitted. "As quickly as that thought pops in my head -- and it probably pops in my head more than I'd like it to -- I try to remind myself of the things to be thankful for, which there are a lot."

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