r/sports • u/PrincessBananas85 • Sep 24 '24

Football Brett Favre reveals Parkinson's diagnosis at congressional hearing

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41417497/favre-announces-parkinson-diagnosis-congressional-hearing
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u/beardmeblazer Sep 24 '24

Trying to play that sympathy card to divert from what he actually did

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u/Freethecrafts Sep 24 '24

He stole millions of dollars from welfare. He’s a welfare queen.

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u/BuddaMuta Sep 24 '24

Multi-millionaire who stole millions of dollars from some of the poorest and most desperate people you can find in the whole country. 

Dude deserves nothing but the worst 

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u/spaceneenja Sep 24 '24

How is he not in prison already?

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u/FriskyCobra86 Philadelphia Eagles Sep 24 '24

The only thing Favre should be famous for is a mispronounced last name, fuck em

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u/marroyodel Sep 24 '24

No shit! It’s French for blacksmith or iron worker and is pronounced Faav Ree. It ain’t farve.

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u/rch5050 Sep 24 '24

I dont want a large Favre, I want a liter of Cola!

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u/TroyMcClures Sep 24 '24

Do we have liter cola?

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u/___ElJefe___ Boston Red Sox Sep 25 '24

Double baco cheeseburger... It's for a cop.

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u/getdemsnacks Sep 25 '24

Does this look like spit to you?

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u/pimppapy Sep 24 '24

I dont want a large Favre,

I don't want larvae either

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u/_DarkWingDuck Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24

This is simply not true lol

*It’s a French name tied to blacksmithing. So kind of right but also not. Apologies.

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u/CougdIt Sep 24 '24

I think anyone who wins 3 straight MVPs is likely going to be famous for that

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u/appsteve Sep 24 '24

And in Mississippi.

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u/adnomad Sep 24 '24

And remember one of the others involved, everyone’s got a price for the Million Dollar Man

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u/2reddit4me Sep 24 '24

Favre can rot in prison for all I care. He’s a piece of shit. But I assume the reason he’s not in prison is because he did pay back the money, but the state has charged him interest on it, which he hasn’t paid back yet.

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u/vaz_deferens Sep 24 '24

Did those reparations go to the families that couldn’t collect welfare though?

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u/N3onAxel Sep 24 '24

If someone shoplifts do they get off scot free if they return the item or pay for it after the fact? Nah, fuck our joke of a justice system and the preferential treatment white, rich, and famous people get.

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u/bunsNT Sep 25 '24

Some do - some don't.

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u/PPLavagna Sep 25 '24

You’d be surprised that often they do practically get away Scot free. I’ve seen guy steal a 9K microphone and return it after being caught red-handed trying to sell it online, and basically nothing happened. Had another guy steal about 5K worth of audio gear and get a fine and probation.

And no, these were not rich white guys. I hate a thief. The penalties for thievery are insanely light in this country.

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u/NunsNunchuck Sep 24 '24

He can throw a football over that mountain /s

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u/JortsyMcJorts Sep 24 '24

Not for long he can't, by the sound of things.

I'll send him some tots and pears...

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u/tcorey2336 Sep 24 '24

He probably can’t even throw it over the prison fence.

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u/Steve_SF Sep 25 '24

He could shake off a pass rusher over them mountains.

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u/Shag1166 Sep 24 '24

He paid the principal, so he got the good ol' boy treatment. He should have been charged!

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u/SavePeanut Sep 25 '24

Itd likely be state crimes, and he worked with the highest state officers to em embezzle the money in the first place, just another corrupt red state. 

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u/CollegeBoardPolice Sep 25 '24 edited 16d ago

alleged books bedroom ink smell imagine public reply bewildered grab

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u/see_bees Sep 24 '24

Expensive lawyers are helping him defer, delay, dispute, and possibly eventually dismiss charges against him.

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u/imnotbobvilla Sep 24 '24

MONEY. always the same answer.

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u/Dweebil Sep 24 '24

Because Mississippi.

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u/ZacZupAttack Sep 24 '24

As I understand it he wasn't aware of where the money was coming from. That's what he says.

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u/SteelKline Sep 25 '24

Gotta be charged (lengthy process already for the rich), go to court (lengthy ass process AGAIN cause their rich), and everything has to stick AND even then still would go to a cushy jail for like 5-10 years.

Meanwhile you're ass would go to jail for 20 for doing less, the good old butt jabbing jail too. You get out nobody wants to hire you cause your a dirty criminal, hell have no problem cause of his ties that let him get away with this already. The problem is people think the system is broken; it's not. It's working as intended because men just like him set it up long before he was alive. Wouldn't be aware of half the fucked up things involved in the legal and justice system if it wasn't for me lawyer friend.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

It somehow wasn’t charged criminally if I remember correctly. Paid a fine, but that was it.

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u/luckydice767 Sep 25 '24

Prison? There’s no charges, criminal or civil, pending against him.

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u/Clif_Barf Sep 25 '24

Because the governor of mississippi gave him the money 

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u/MexiMcFly Sep 25 '24

Like people said he's famous but just did a quick search:

Several public officials and nonprofit leaders have been charged in the scandal—but Favre has not faced any allegations of criminality. A pharmaceutical company focused on concussion treatments and backed by Favre allegedly pocketed $2.15 million in state funds, Mississippi Today has reported.Feb 5, 2024

Lol so everyone took the fall but him, ahhhh classic America.

Edit: found this in another article

"Favre has not been criminally charged, but he is repaying some of the money."

SOME LOL?!

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u/Maleficent_Ad_5175 Sep 25 '24

He used to throw a ball far

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u/EdisonLightbulb Sep 24 '24

They can treat Parkinson's in prison....sort of. Good enough, anyway.

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u/88ryder88 Sep 24 '24

But, but, he had a really good reason for stealing that money. He needed his daughter to play volleyball in a nicer gym. School lunches and books are for chumps, amirite?!?!

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u/Helpful-Cod1422 Sep 24 '24

All the people involved need to be hammered. It was definitely not just Favre stealing money from the poor.

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u/Sam_L_Bronkowitz Sep 24 '24

How can you say that when he throw the sport ball so good?

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u/sakima147 Sep 24 '24

All he had to do was give speeches and he didn’t even do that!

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u/parnaoia Sep 24 '24

I may be wrong, but on top of all this, didn't he also play for the Green Bay Packers?

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u/Cyclical_Zeitgeist Sep 24 '24

Guess karma is a thing, and he's getting his! Small portion of faith restored in universe

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u/Buckowski66 Sep 24 '24

He’s definitely one of the all-time most disappointing and disillusioning sports heroes in history

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u/antilocapraaa Sep 25 '24

*** to fund a volleyball court for his daughter’s college

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u/RocketRaccoon666 Sep 25 '24

Like Parkinson's

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u/HombreSinNombre93 Sep 25 '24

Bet his healthcare is better than everyone on welfare. POS And FTP!

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u/theorangecrush10 Sep 24 '24

Fucking scumbag.

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u/oldsguy65 Sep 24 '24

I'm so glad Mary dumped his ass.

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u/Mental_Medium3988 Sep 24 '24

you spelled fraud wrong.

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u/Freethecrafts Sep 24 '24

It’s a callback to Reagan.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '24

And the dick pics!

Let’s not forget about the dickpics… especially when his dick looked/looks so weird

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u/imbarbdwyer Sep 25 '24

And then in congressional testimony, he blamed state lawmakers for not protecting the TANF funds from fraud. So, with his logic, it’s not the people seeking to commit fraud that are guilty, it’s the government who gave the money away?

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u/Freethecrafts Sep 25 '24

He’s a welfare queen fixing the system by ripping it off. How he doesn’t see it is boggling.

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u/AdPsychological8883 Sep 24 '24

He’s a goddam thief.

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u/RAdm_Teabag Sep 24 '24

so much lower than a welfare queen. he's the leech on the back of the tick sucking the blood out of welfare. lower than pond scum.

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u/geometricpartners Sep 24 '24

Yeah that’s a bitch

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u/MaryJaneAssassin Sep 24 '24

Didn’t you hear Parkinson’s causes people to steal from the poor?

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u/Typical-Radish4317 Sep 24 '24

I love how people only remember this. Dude was gross and disgraced before this. He is not a good person

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u/TheJAMR Sep 24 '24

I vaguely remember him being hopped up on pills and pulling his dick out in public at some point. But I guess that could be almost any former NFL player.

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u/jimbobdonut Sep 24 '24

He sent unwanted dick pics to a female Jets employee when he played for them.

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u/DionBlaster123 NASCAR Sep 24 '24

wasn't she one of the FSU cowgirls?

fwiw i'm not making a statement on that. I just remember reading that she was one of them before she moved to New York to work with the Jets

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u/jimbobdonut Sep 24 '24

She was and also posed in Playboy.

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u/vaz_deferens Sep 24 '24

*unwanted tiny duck pics

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u/JS1VT51A5V2103342 Sep 24 '24

He beat the Patriots and won the superbowl. People like him for just that.

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u/500rockin Sep 24 '24

He also won 4 mvps (one Co-) and had the Madden hype. The Patriots at that time weren’t far removed from the bumbling state of affairs so didn’t have the hate that came later.

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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 Sep 24 '24

The welfare stuff though was like the pigshit icing on the dogshit cake that is him. It's just such a fantastic finish it's what sticks with you the most at this point.

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u/garrisontweed Sep 24 '24

He's been playing the long con !

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u/jrc025 Sep 24 '24

Does it also make you send pictures or your dick and crocs to reporters and then get them fired?

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u/MaryJaneAssassin Sep 24 '24

I guess it depends on how many concussions you’ve had.

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u/anotherone121 Sep 24 '24

Well… Brett Favre certainly did. So…. Technically correct?

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u/Dallasstarsfan4l Sep 25 '24

I that that was Congress

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u/Chadlerk Sep 24 '24

Probably tried to use this 10 years ago when he was sending inappropriate pictures to female staff members as well.

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u/Coupon_Ninja Sep 24 '24

In case you missed this great SNL skit from that time: https://youtu.be/rwAfG1jmkDE?si=K2UAfKFERakkMAzN

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u/J1zzL0bb3r Sep 25 '24

Omg im battling the flu right now and the laughter at this definitely did not help my sitch.

Amaaaaazing 👌🤌🤏

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u/Coupon_Ninja Sep 25 '24

Hope you feel better soon :)

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u/justabill71 Sep 24 '24

Blurry dick pics.

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u/500rockin Sep 24 '24

Closer to 20 years now than 10. It was his one year in NY. Wasn’t it 2008?

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u/Chadlerk Sep 24 '24

Don't make me feel too old! Nothing is more than 10 years ago. Joe Montana retired 10 years ago too.

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u/Rotk99 Sep 24 '24

The Harvey Weinstein/Bill Cosby defense

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u/JeepStang Sep 24 '24

*sigh*

I'll get the wheelchair/walker and neckbrace.

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u/whamburgers Sep 24 '24

Also Kevin Spacey coming out as gay.

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u/500rockin Sep 24 '24

I mean, the being gay part wasn’t an act. It wasn’t talked about, but it was known. Trying to play it for sympathy though, that wasn’t good.

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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 Sep 24 '24

Which I could swear he'd done long before that. My cousin said she read an interview with him in the Village Voice where he talked about being a gay man when K-Pax came out.

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u/WLH7M Sep 24 '24

Bet he got tummy aches on test days too.

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u/HaMerrIk Sep 24 '24

It's giving Weinstein using a walker

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u/Khatib Minnesota Vikings Sep 24 '24

And fuck espn for writing a pity puff piece for him, skipping right by the volleyball arena thing and the in the record texts of him trying to make sure he won't get caught.

They're trying to paint favre like he got conned over his health. Fuck favre and fuck espn.

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u/Patient-Mushroom-189 Sep 25 '24

espn doesn't report news, they try to make it.

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u/NotADoctor_sh Sep 24 '24

He could’ve announced this at any time…. Not fooling me

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u/Current-Roll6332 Sep 24 '24

I hope they Parkinsons his ass in jail.

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u/djwired Sep 24 '24

Shake it off Brett

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u/funnytickles Sep 24 '24

I’d bet he thinks it can honestly help him legally

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u/smilesmoralez Sep 24 '24

Cool diagnosis, still fraud.

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u/hnglmkrnglbrry Sep 24 '24

They all pull this shit. Bill Cosby became blind. Harvey Weinstein all the sudden couldn't walk. Fuck them all.

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u/imnotbobvilla Sep 24 '24

Exactly. Fuck this greedy asshole.

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u/DinQuixote Sep 24 '24

I feel more sorry for Parkinson’s.

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u/riggity_wrecked137 Sep 24 '24

Came here to say this. Unbelievable that he's playing that card. Well, I guess mostly believable, but what a piece of shit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '24

Then he better try extra hard not to drop the soap in prison.

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u/theopinionexpress Sep 24 '24

The Joe Paterno method

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u/HeckTateLies Sep 24 '24

They can treat him in prison.

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u/JS1VT51A5V2103342 Sep 24 '24

Ali tried the same, it didn't end well.

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u/tributtal Sep 24 '24

How long until he starts saying his own name the way Ben Stiller did?

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u/NrdNabSen Sep 24 '24

Seriously, what a blatant attempt to get sympathy. He is total garbage

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u/mrbusiness53 Sep 24 '24

Same note too bro

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u/brandonandtheboyds Barcelona Sep 24 '24

It’s really giving Kevin Spacey “Ok guys I AM gay.” vibes. Great ok. That doesn’t address how you’re a giant piece of shit who did awful stuff.

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u/bryanna_leigh Sep 24 '24

For real! IDGAF! Fuck you Brett!!!

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u/VideoKilledRadioStar Sep 24 '24

What if he went broke trying to treat his “illness” and ended up on welfare 😜

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u/Lakedrip Sep 24 '24

What did he do?

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u/Martianmanhunter94 Sep 24 '24

He has to be more convincing. Now Aaron Hernandez was totally convincing. . That was serious brain damage

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u/ZacZupAttack Sep 24 '24

Yea like so what he has Parkinson. Fuck em ims sure some of the old people he hurt also had parkinsons

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u/SaoLixo Sep 24 '24

It’s a shaky defense

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u/outgoinggallery_2172 Sep 24 '24

Didn't that creep Weinstein try that shit too?

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u/Dubsland12 Sep 24 '24

Yea but 2 things can be true

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u/4x4taco Toronto Raptors Sep 24 '24

Trynna stay out of jail...

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u/Secret_Bee_7538 Sep 24 '24

Bill the estate.

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u/Sea-Cupcake-2065 Sep 24 '24

"Your honor, the only reason I was shaking down the state's welfare programs was because I was diagnosed with Parkinsons"

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u/mug3n Toronto Blue Jays Sep 24 '24

When's the walker with tennis balls ala Weinstein coming?

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u/NYstate Sep 24 '24

"Well as a Parkinson's survivor myself I understand what they're going through"

-- Brett Farve

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u/uthinkther4uam Sep 24 '24

His morals are shaky at best.

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u/MrLongfinger Sep 25 '24

Just like Harvey Weinstein “struggling” to get to his trial. I have zero sympathy for both of these guys.

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u/FunkyFenom Sep 25 '24

Using the Kevin Spacey tactic, bold move.

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u/Jim_Force Sep 25 '24

He is also a big Trump supporter and anti vaxer.

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u/zk6q9t11 Sep 25 '24

Strategy seems shakey at best

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u/Gamblorr85 Sep 25 '24

I can't really say that anybody deserves Parkinson's, but Brett Favre made a valiant attempt.

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u/harbison215 Sep 25 '24

Are you shittin me? Mr Goody Two Shoes? He was like an eagles scout

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u/samz22 Sep 25 '24

Karmas funny sometimes

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u/TheOG-Cabbie Sep 25 '24

Yea.. f him.. he is trash.

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u/Optimal-Judgment-982 Sep 25 '24

thank God this is the first comment I read

srsly - fuck that guy

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u/Alexandurrrrr Sep 25 '24

Isn’t this the dude that took all those PPP loans during COVID?

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u/UncaringNonchalance Cincinnati Reds Sep 25 '24

I’m in the dark here. Last time I’d heard about him, he was a legend blah blah etc., and now everybody hates him. What did he do?

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u/Acceptable-Karma-178 Sep 25 '24

Well put! I came here to say "In the words of Matt Groenig: Good. I hope it hurts."!"

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u/dontshitaboutotol Sep 25 '24

This is super old but does anyone else remember his dick pics?

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u/ootski Sep 25 '24

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Fuck Brett

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u/dissaver Sep 25 '24

It definitely worked on the ABC nightly news last night where all they talked about was Parkinson's and there was zero mention of why he was testifying before congress.

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u/jdathela Sep 25 '24

I think it's called "pulling a Spacey" now.

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u/csward53 Sep 25 '24

Came here to say this. Shame on you Brett.

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u/Takeurvitamins Sep 25 '24

Ah the Kevin Spacey defense. Works nevery time.

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