After his dramatic appearances on ESPN during Deflategate, you probably know former Jaguars quarterback Mark Brunell as a sensitive dude who just wants players to use regulation weight footballs.
But ol’ Mark isn’t pillowy soft about everything.
He was one of several players and coaches that were featured in a Brett Favre greatest hits story on CBS Sports, and he revealed a pretty interesting tidbit about a young No. 4’s encounter with a deer:
Brunell: 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.
So to recap, if you play football with slightly underinflated balls, Mark will bring out the waterworks:
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But drop a deer torture story on him — with impeccable delivery — and he’ll be rolling on the ground laughing. Makes sense!
