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Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre opened up about his battle with Parkinson’s disease.

The Super Bowl champion revealed last year he was diagnosed with the illness while he testified on Capitol Hill about welfare reform.

He appeared on the recent episode of “The Sage Steele Show” and spoke more about his symptoms and his mental anguish as he goes through his day-to-day.

“What symptoms sort of arised here lately is I’m having a hard time swallowing,” he told Sage Steele. “There’s times where I think I’m choking. It’s sort of scary because they can’t fix that. I try not to think about it. I try to just focus on getting after the day.

“But there are often times during the day, maybe at night, when I decompress and I think I’m progressing a

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