Brett Favre: I'll wing it during Packers HOF speech

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Brett Favre will be induced into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame on Saturday July 18th.

"When it sold out so quickly, I got goose bumps," Favre said in an interview with Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com.

"I think what I'll probably say initially is, 'I thought about writing something down. I thought about writing a script, but you know what? I figured I'd wing it sort of like I played, so just bear with me,'" Favre said. "It's only fitting.


"I don't want to sit there and make it longer than the whole event is anyway -- and it's going to be long -- but I do want to acknowledge a lot of people and just maybe tell a few funny stories, kind of keep it as lighthearted as possible. It could be 20 minutes, it could be an hour, I don't know."


Favre admitted he's "nervous" and "anxious."


"I've thought about that a bunch, and I guess the best analogy that I can think of is it's the closest thing to playing. My feeling right now when I think about it is nervous, not scared but anxiety, good anxiety," Favre said. "Heck, when it sold out so quickly, I got goose bumps. If I had any doubts whatsoever leading up, which I really didn't, that was all answered with that. I don't mean this in a negative way, but I'll be glad when it's over because the buildup has been so big.


"It's kind of like when I was a kid -- you may have been like this too -- you couldn't wait for Christmas and the closer it got, the more excited you got."

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During the speech, he'll say "You never stop missing the game." BSPN will spend the next 6 weeks speculating on whether that means he's coming back, discussing which teams might be able to use him, analyzing whether he can play a half-season for a team at his age, etc.

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Brett Favre.