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Brett Favre: Former Green Bay Packers quarterback reveals recent Parkinson's diagnosis

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Brett Favre, former Green Bay Packers quarterback, has revealed his recent Parkinson's diagnosis; Favre is the only player in history to win three successive NFL Most Valuable Player awards (1995-1997); 54-year-old revealed his condition in court during an ongoing welfare fraud case

Image: Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre has revealed he is living with Parkinson's disease

Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre has revealed he has Parkinson's disease.

Favre, 54, a Super Bowl winner with the Packers in 1997 and inducted into the NFL's Hall of Fame in 2016, told a Congressional hearing in an ongoing welfare fraud case that he was recently diagnosed with the illness.