Alison Dirr
Hall of Fame ex-Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre will join former President Donald Trump at his event in Green Bay on Wednesday, according to the campaign.
Favre will be a special guest speaker at the event that will take place less than a week before the Nov. 5 election in which Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris are each vying for the White House.
Trump and Favre are expected to make remarks at the Resch Center in the Green Bay suburb of Ashwaubenon.
The candidates and their campaigns are each crisscrossing this critical swing state in the final days before the election. Trump will also be in Milwaukee next week while Harris will hold a rally in Madison.
Favre played 20 years in the NFL.
He was known as an ironman during his career, starting an NFL-record 321 consecutive games across 18½ seasons from 1992 to 2010.
He began his career with the Atlanta Falcons before being traded to the Packers in his second year, a transaction that changed the course of the organization. He became the first player in NFL history to win three straight MVP awards and turned the Packers into a perennial contender. Favre led Green Bay to a Super Bowl title after the 1996 season, its first in 35 years, and another Super Bowl appearance in 1997.
The Packers traded him to the New York Jets after he came out of retirement in 2008. He spent one season there before playing the final two years of his career with the Minnesota Vikings.
Favre, 55, announced last month that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a movement disorder that affects the nervous system.
Favre suffered numerous concussions during his playing career.
He announced the diagnosis during testimony at a congressional committee meeting about the misuse of federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds in Mississippi.
Favre, a native of Mississippi, is embroiled in the scandal but has not been charged with a crime. He has denied wrongdoing.
(This story has been updated to add new information.)
Christopher Kuhagen and JR Radcliffe of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this story.
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