January 12, 2025
Brett Favre knows a thing or two about how tough it is to play football, as the legendary NFL quarterback played through several injuries and pains as he started started an NFL-record 321 consecutive games (297 regular season and 24 playoff games) over 18.5 seasons.
But even Favre is disgusted by video of a youth football drill going viral on social media. The Hall of Fame quarterback took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to sound off on the youth football drill that has been trending on social media.
Favre, now 55, sounded off on the “absolutely horrible” drill put in place by some youth football coaches.
He’s furious by it.
The drill is essentially an Oklahoma Drill type practice session. It features a ball carrier and a defensive player colliding in open field. The youth football players are not shying away from contact, often using their helmets to make the tackle.
Favre was disturbed by it.
The legendary NFL quarterback had his fair share of concussions over the course of his career.
Favre has said that he only knowingly suffered three or four concussions during his career, but it’s possible that the number is much higher than that.
“When you have ringing of the ears, seeing stars, that’s a concussion,” Favre told the “Today” show. “And if that is a concussion, I’ve had hundreds, maybe thousands, throughout my career, which is frightening.”
Football isn’t going away, so everyone should be doing their best to make it as safe as possible. It’ll never be 100 percent safe, of course – no sport is – but you don’t need to be teaching young football players helmet-to-helmet contact, especially in practice.
Hopefully, the youth football coaches in charge of the drill have learned their lesson and won’t be teaching that drill during the 2025 season later this year.
We know that Brett Favre is certainly very much against it.