Brett Favre warns parents not to let children play tackle football before the age of 14 By Des Bieler, August 17th, 2021
Legendary former quarterback Brett Favre is warning parents not to let their children play tackle football before the age of 14, lest they greatly increase their kids’ risk of eventually developing the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
In a public service announcement released Tuesday by the Concussion Legacy Foundation, the Green Bay Packers great is featured in a video in which he plays the middle-aged version of a football player who is first shown talking to his parents as a youngster and then as an adolescent.