Brett Favre essays

Brett Favre essays The title of my book is Brett Favre by Chris Havel. Brett Favre was born on October 10,1969 in Gulfport, Mississippi. He was born a big baby, he was twenty-one inches long and weighed nine pounds fifteen ounces. Both of his parents were teachers. His father taught physical education and drivers education at a local high school. He was also the football coach. His mother taught special education. Brett has an older brother named Scott and a younger sister named Brandi. As a teenager his sister was named Miss Teen Mississippi. When Brett was a year old, his dad gave him his first football uniform and gave him some advice. He said, Son, keep your head down and your pants up. Brett Favre thinks he got his athletic skills from his dad and his intelligence from his mom. His mom can throw a football pretty well though. Brett has such a strong-arm that he threw a football so hard when he was 11 years old that when the guy went up to catch it he flew back 2 feet. Brett met his wife Deanna in high school. They were high school sweethearts and went to college together. She got pregnant when they were in college and gave birth to the baby. They thought about having an abortion, but it was to hard for them. They named her Brittany. Bretts parents helped them out financially so Brett never had to give up football. His senior year was tough because he didnt know which college he wanted to go to. He got offered scholarships in all the big schools such as Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Mississippi Sate, and Louisiana State. He thought that they would put him in as a safety instead of as a quarterback so he didn t want to go to any of them. Bretts dad called up one of his friends who is a coach on the football team at Southern Mississippi and asked him to come and see his son throw a football. So he went down and saw him throw a 65-yard pass. His chin dropped and said, I have never see...