{"id":81521,"date":"2022-09-29T08:07:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T08:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brett-favres-legacy-isnt-just-tarnished-its-buried-under-mounting\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T08:07:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T08:07:21","slug":"brett-favres-legacy-isnt-just-tarnished-its-buried-under-mounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brett-favres-legacy-isnt-just-tarnished-its-buried-under-mounting\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Favre&#8217;s legacy isn&#8217;t just tarnished.  It&#8217;s buried under mounting."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>At some point in the past few weeks, the football portion of Brett Favre&#8217;s history started to feel trite.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to pinpoint that exact moment now, given that so many revelations and Cima about his character have snowballed in recent weeks.  But we know tides of his legacy did n&#8217;t turn in the wake of long-known of lewd messages sent to former New York Jets gameday host Jenn Sterger, or a civil argument settled with a pair of massage therapists who said the former NFL quarterback had harassed them.  Those have been filed away in the pages of history for years, both known and largely ignored in the many recollections of his iconic football greatness.<\/p>\n<p>But they got new life in May of 2020, when an audit of funds earmarked for the neediest residents in the state of Mississippi exposed something entirely unexpected and also completely nonsensical about Favre at that time: The NFL star who had earned almost $138 million in football salary alone had somehow gotten $1.1 million in welfare funds diverted to him.  It was an oddity that lacked easy comprehension.  Why would Favre of all people \u2014 undoubtedly one of the richest and most famous people in Mississippi \u2014 be given a dime of assistance funds, let alone $1.1 million?<\/p>\n<p>The answer has been a slow crawl spanning nearly two and a half years, with information trickling out in civil and criminal litigation.  A long and winding legal path that has <em>note,<\/em> to this point, resulted in a criminal indictment of Favre for misappropriation of nearly $8 million in welfare funds.  To date, Favre has repaid $1.1 million of the money traced directly to him (but not the interest on the funds, which was requested by a state auditor).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div style=\"\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader noheight\"><noscript><img alt=\"GREEN BAY, WI - OCTOBER 16: Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre looks on as he is inducted into the Ring of Honor during a halftime ceremony during the game between the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys on October 16, 2016 at Lambeau Field in Green Mr. Wisconsin.  The Cowboys defeated the Packers 30-16.  (Photo by Hannah Foslien\/Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/ioCpJl0MvbdUWNSOLeWGBw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MA--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-04\/6e9f9180-9e22-11eb-b33d-0d74bf2c145e\" class=\"caas-img\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Hall of Famer Brett Favre, pictured in 2016, remains a key figure in a sprawling investigation in the misappropriation of welfare funds in Mississippi.  (Photo by Hannah Foslien\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Whether he faces additional trouble for his ties to the scammers involved in state welfare funds remains to be seen.  That hasn&#8217;t stopped a robust trial in the court of public opinion, with proceedings that seem to get worse with each passing week.  First with clear in court filings that welfare funds landed in the laps of at least two of Favre&#8217;s pet projects: a volleyball building at the University of Southern Mississippi, and a biomedical startup that counted the quarterback as an investor and endorser.  Then with batches of curious text messages showing a working relationship between Favre and some individuals wrapped up in the largest welfare fraud scheme in Mississippi history.<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"link caas-button collapse-button\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-ylk=\"elm:readmore;slk:Story continues\">Story continues<\/button><\/p>\n<p>And now with this week&#8217;s precarious question: Why Favre&#8217;s own charity, Favre 4 Hope, donated nearly $130,000 to the University of Southern Miss Athletic Foundation, while espousing a mission of collecting donations to help \u201cunderserved and disabled children in Mississippi and Wisconsin.\u201d  According to public tax records, the Athletic reported that same charity donated the lion&#8217;s share of its disbursements to the USM Athletic Foundation, to the tune of nearly $130,000 from 2018-2020.  If that timeframe sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because it also covers the same period when Favre was reportedly leaning on state officials in Mississippi for the Southern Miss volleyball project funds.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in all of that, we hit that threshold of Favre&#8217;s football legacy becoming trite.  It&#8217;s hard to contemplate his accomplishments as an NFL player when his most recent track record is a case study of how a man with power, influence, fame and access used that cocktail to allegedly finesse millions of misappropriated dollars into his desired destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Surely there&#8217;s an interception joke in there somewhere but at this point, casting any of this into the spotlight of humor or football feels gross.<\/p>\n<p>Favre&#8217;s football legacy is being overwritten as we speak.  The picture is widening into something much more human and the questions that come along with it are disturbing.  If anything, his football resume now looks like a leverage point that he used to engage in manipulation.  And we&#8217;re in the process of learning whether that manipulation was crossing boundaries either purposely or recklessly (or both).<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t about a football player anymore.  It&#8217;s about aspects of clout and pressure and responsibility someone has when they combine the two and set off with an agenda.  Most of all, it&#8217;s about a revealing crawl of information that continues to push Brett Favre&#8217;s glorified days as a quarterback far into the rearview mirror of history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point in the past few weeks, the football portion of Brett Favre&#8217;s history started to feel trite. It&#8217;s difficult to pinpoint that exact moment now, given that so many revelations and Cima about his character have snowballed in recent weeks. But we know tides of his legacy did n&#8217;t turn in the wake &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brett-favres-legacy-isnt-just-tarnished-its-buried-under-mounting\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brett Favre&#8217;s legacy isn&#8217;t just tarnished.  It&#8217;s buried under mounting.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81799,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brett-favres-foundation-under-the-microscope-as-ex-qb-caught-up-in-mississippi-welfare-scandal-reports\/","url_meta":{"origin":81521,"position":0},"title":"Brett Favre&#8217;s foundation under the microscope as ex-QB caught up in Mississippi welfare scandal: reports","date":"September 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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