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Bart Starr's family hopes stem cell treatment will help him return to Lambeau Field

Published Nov. 15, 2016 2:26 p.m. ET

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Dan Graf

After seeing positive results following a stem cell treatment a year ago, the family of Hall of Fame former Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr is hoping a second procedure will help him return to Lambeau Field again this season.

Starr, 82, is expecting to make another trip to Mexico in the next week or two to undergo the experimental treatment that allowed him to feel well enough to attend Brett Favre’s number retirement ceremony last November, according to the USA Today Network-Wisconsin.

The trip reportedly is contingent on him being well enough to travel after enduring a series of infections in the past few months. Bart Starr Jr. told USA Today that his family would love to get him to Lambeau – where he played from 1956-71 and coached from 1975-83 – one more time:

Starr had suffered a heart attack, two strokes and multiple seizures in 2014, but the stem cell treatment and the subsequent visit to Green Bay improved his physical and cognitive abilities until he broke his hip at home the next month.

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