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Derrick Z. Jackson

The man inside Brett Favre

Brett Favre overcame his off-the-field struggles and became one of us. Brett Favre overcame his off-the-field struggles and became one of us. (Derrick Z. Jackson/Globe Staff)
By Derrick Z. Jackson
March 8, 2008

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IDOLIZING ATHLETES is silly when you are 52, especially when many of them act like they are 2. And until recent years, Brett Favre was much closer to being a toddler of manhood than a towering athletic intellect like Arthur Ashe or Bill Bradley. (Full article: 757 words)

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