Brett Favre admitted to spending multiple stints in rehab during his NFL playing career

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• Brett Favre struggled with an addiction to Vicodin during his playing days, even taking as many as 14 pills at once.
• He went to rehab twice for Vicodin addiction. 
• He went to rehab again a third time for drinking and was able to get sober after that. 

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In his last MMQB column for Sports Illustrated, veteran NFL reporter Peter King was able to get some candid comments from Brett Favre about his battles with addiction to his NFL career, including multiple stints in a drug rehabilitation facility. 

"It is really amazing, as I think back, how well I played [in 1995]," Favre told King. "That was an MVP year for me. But that year, when I woke up in the morning, my first thought was, ‘I gotta get more pills.’ I took 14 Vicodin, yes, one time. I was getting an hour or two of sleep many nights. Maybe 30 minutes of quality sleep. I was the MVP on a pain-pill buzz."See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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