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Brett Favre used Vicodin to get through MVP season with Packers

4,413 yards. 38 touchdowns. 14 Vicodin pills.

Those are all numbers from Brett Favre's MVP season in 1995, the first two over the course of a 16-game season. The latter was from just one sitting.

The Hall of Fame quarterback spoke to Peter King this week as part of King's final column for Sports Illustrated, and revealed that he had not only been to rehab once (as previously reported), but two other separate occasions during his career.

Regarding that 1995 season, Favre told King:

" ... It is really amazing, as I think back, how well I played that year.