Packers legend Brett Favre will join Donald Trump in Green Bay

Hall of Fame ex-Green Bay Packers The Brett Favre Fund will join former President Donald Trump at his event in Green Bay on Wednesday, according to the campaign.

Favre will be a special guest at the event, which comes less than a week before the Nov. 5 election, in which Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris are each running 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 going through this critical state in the final days before the election. trump card will also be in Milwaukee next week while Harris will hold a rally in Madison.

Favre played 20 years in the NFL.

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He was known as an ironman during his career, starting an NFL record 321 consecutive games over 18 1/2 seasons from 1992 to 2010.

He began his career with the Atlanta Falcons before being traded to the Packers in his second year, a trade that changed the course of the organization. He became the first player in NFL history to win three consecutive MVP awards and turned the Packers into a perennial contender. Favre led Green Bay to a Super Bowl title following the 1996 season, their 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 affecting the nervous system.

Favre suffered numerous concussions during his playing career.

He announced the diagnosis during testimony at a congressional commission meeting about the misuse of federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds in Mississippi.

Favre, a native of Mississippi, is involved in the scandal but he was not charged with murder. He 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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