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Clemson coach Dabo Swinney gets wish by catching a pass from Brett Favre

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CLEMSON — Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney admits that he’s always wanted to catch a pass from Brett Favre.

He finally got that chance Wednesday afternoon.

“That was a little different velocity coming at me,” Swinney said after snaring an aerial from Favre prior to his team’s practice Wednesday.

Swinney’s players were on the receiving end of a few well-timed deliveries from Favre as well.

When Will Swinney, Dabo’s oldest son and a reserve wide receiver on the team, asked how Favre adapted from the mild weather of Kiln, Mississippi, to the frigid cold of Green Bay, Wisconsin, early in his career, Favre deadpanned: “It was real hard…until I got my first paycheck.