Former NFL quarterback Mark Brunell likely would've been better served by prefacing his story with, "You had to be there."
Brunell was one of several Brett Favre teammates that told stories of the Packers quarterback in an interview with CBS Sports.
Brunell began his career in Green Bay as a rookie in 1994 and had Favre as a mentor. One of the off-the-field stories Brunell told about Favre shed a positive light on neither athlete.
"My favorite Brett Favre story is a hunting story from when he was a kid," Brunell told CBS Sports. "He and a buddy or a couple buddies who were out trespassing on some property somewhere and they had a .22 rifle. They were just messing around and they see a deer. You're trespassing, you shouldn't be there to begin with, and the last thing you should do is take your gun and shoot at a deer. So they do it, and I think they hit it a few times and knock it down.
"After a couple shots ring off, they realize somebody could discover them and find out they're trespassing. They're frantic, they don't know what to do, and they've got this deer and it's flopping all over the woods. So, they figured out the only way to kill this deer without shooting at it is to drown it. So they drag it over to a puddle, a stream, a small pond, I don't know what it was, but they basically held this deer underwater until the bubbles stopped coming out of its nose. Listen, I'll probably get in trouble for telling this story, but it's one of the funniest stories I've ever heard. And the way he told that story, we were crying laughing. It was gut-ache type laughing."
It was probably a story best described in 1994. Talking about Favre's exploits now makes the Packers legend sound uncaring and gruesome over his animal cruelty and makes Brunell come off as a jerk for laughing about it.
At least the story came out after Favre's return to Green Bay to have his Packers jersey retired, so that ceremony wouldn't have the chance to be delayed.
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