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Brett Favre estimates he suffered ‘thousands’ of concussions while playing football

Brett Favre owns the NFL record for career interceptions with 336, and he ranks fourth all-time with 508 touchdown passes. But those numbers don’t come close to a metric that Favre believes numbers in the thousands.

That, frighteningly, is the number of concussions Favre estimates he suffered in his 20-year NFL career.

In a recent interview with Bubba the Love Sponge, Favre said he once thought he only had three concussions. But now, after better understanding concussion symptoms, he thinks he’s injured his brain more than 1,000 times.

“The thing about concussions is we still don’t know a lot about them,” Favre said.