Brett Favre is an avid hunter, and hunters always tell some of the best stories. That is, if you are able to stomach them.
In a lengthy oral history of Favre’s life and career that CBS recently put together, former NFL quarterback Mark Brunell told a story about a time Favre killed a deer. Favre has likely killed many deer in his life, but he took this particular deer’s life when he was just a kid. And it wasn’t pretty.
We’ll let Brunell take it from here:
My favorite Brett Favre story is a hunting story from when he was a kid. 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.
I’ll leave the outrage to PETA, but I doubt many people are going to find a detailed story about a deer being shot and drowned to be “one of the funniest stories” they’ve ever heard. We’re just not with you on that one, Mark.
Funny stories are like the one Favre told earlier this year about his former coach. That “hunting” story is probably better left untold.
H/T Deadspin
