Report: Favre has chronic hip condition

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

yahoo.com

8/18/05

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Brett Favre has a chronic hip condition that almost prevented him from being traded to the Green Bay Packers 13 years ago, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Wednesday.

Favre and former Packers general manager Ron Wolf said Tuesday at training camp that the three-time NFL MVP was diagnosed in 1992 with avascular necrosis, a condition that can lead to hip replacement surgery. ``It's a lack of blood supply to a socket,'' Favre told the newspaper. ``To this day, it bothers me from time to time, but before the draft I did MRIs for Atlanta, I did MRIs for Seattle, went through all kind of evaluations at the combine. A lot of teams were apprehensive because of that.''

Favre said he hurt his hip in the East-West Shrine game, and the condition is the same as the one that afflicted former football and baseball star Bo Jackson.


Favre was drafted by Atlanta and spent his first season as a backup there before Wolf engineered the trade on Feb. 10, 1992, that brought him to Green Bay in exchange for a first-round draft pick.

Favre said that when he arrived in Green Bay, the Packers examined him and predicted he would suffer from avascular necrosis and would soon feel effects of it. According to Favre, he failed the physical, but Wolf told the medical staff to pass him.

``The prognosis on avascular necrosis is at some point you're going to have to have a replacement or it's going to have to be treated,'' Favre said. ``I don't have as much flexibility in that socket, but you're kind of rolling the dice. They said I wouldn't play three or four years. Obviously they were wrong and Ron was willing to take that risk.''

After practice Tuesday, Wolf said that the team doctor at the time, Clarence Novotny, recommended flunking Favre on his physical. But he said Novotny was not an orthopedist, so he had surgeon Patrick McKenzie, now the team doctor, examine Favre. Wolf said McKenzie told him that in four or five years Favre could have some problems with his hip, but there was no danger of it deteriorating immediately. ``This is the guy I wanted,'' Wolf said. ``They said four or five years, I didn't care. It turned out there wasn't anything wrong with him.''

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

Brett Favre and Bo Jackson? Where can I get this condition?

 

[Golferdow01]

Good thing for the Pack they didn't fail him :)

 

[jlb1705]

That makes his streak of consecutive games played all the more amazing. Favre is one of the all-time special players in the NFL.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Brett Favre
1993
You might expect the NFL's most exciting young quarterback to be living like a high roller. But for 23-year-old Brett Favre, pictured at home in 1993, the adolescent décor of his childhood bedroom suited him just fine.

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/main/photos/1309/si-funniest-photos//12/#ixzz2fS6SXDxR

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

So, you had to bump an eight-year-old thread just to post an article that no one gives a shit about? Your schpeil of dregging up the oldest threads you can find is getting just that...old.

 

[Buckeneye]

Somebody getting Mili a snickers. He turns into a grumpy douche when he's hungry...

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

This thread actually delivers

 

[ScriptOhio]

So, you had to bump an eight-year-old thread just to post an article that no one gives a [Mark May] about? Your schpeil of dregging up the oldest threads you can find is getting just that...old.

Just sayin';

1) Unless you polled all 17,534 members you really don't know for sure that "no one gives a shit about the article". My guess is (as a minimum) that there are probably a few Packer/Favre fans on Buckeye Planet that would find it amusing. Also, it might bring back some fond memories for any other member (who as a youth growing up) that had a bedroom decorated like that.

2) I never have a seen a forum rule against posting in (i.e or dredging up) an old thread. I really don't understand your problem with it. If the people that run Buckeye Planet do not think the old threads are reliant and/or do not want want anyone to post in them; than wouldn't they be "deleted" or at least "closed"?

3) I think it is safe to say everyone does not like everything everyone else posts. Needless to say I've seen a few other negative comments (like yours) about my "dredging old threads"; however, I've seen significantly more instances where it generated additional positive discussion on the topic. I could be wrong here, but I am under the belief that generating more posts/discussion/involvement by members of Buckeye Planet is a good thing.

4) Anyway have a Snickers bar:

and GO BUCKS ---- BEAT FLORIDA A & M

 

[Mike80]

maybe that hip condition was what he was trying to show to that slut from Free Shoes....