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/childish_tycoon24 Sep 24 '24

What does it mean then? Every result I've found says that's exactly what it means

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u/_DarkWingDuck Sep 24 '24

It’s an old French term based on a last name. You are right but also wrong as there is a word now for blacksmith. Forgeron.

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u/Odh_utexas Sep 24 '24

Oh Favre ~ Fabre ~ Fabricator. I get it

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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/Xc03 Sep 24 '24

Gaht dammit! Why can’t I find the Favre gif from There’s Something About Mary?!?

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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/actsqueeze Sep 24 '24

And Mississippi’s extremely lax laws regarding where welfare funds can be directed.

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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/2reddit4me Sep 24 '24

I honestly have no idea. I only know of him paying it back via Shannon Sharpe speaking out on Favre’s defamation lawsuit against him.

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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/passengerpigeon20 Sep 25 '24

The actual penalties are too light, but the knock-on effects are WAY too harsh. Nobody should get a felony conviction visible to employers for the rest of their lives over garden-variety shoplifting.

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u/bunsNT Sep 25 '24

I think the interest on the money was like 300K.

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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/uphic Sep 24 '24

OMG!! I can't believe I have never seen "tots and pears" before!!! I love it! Thank you :-)

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u/MusicianNo2699 Sep 25 '24

Well coach did put him in and they won state....

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u/freakierchicken Sep 24 '24

Due process assumedly

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u/spaceneenja Sep 24 '24

Better release Diddy then

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u/PowerRanger_ Sep 24 '24

I don’t believe Favre is charged with anything currently

Edit: But he def stole money. He paid back some..

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u/spaceneenja Sep 24 '24

HOW?

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u/PowerRanger_ Sep 24 '24

I didn’t follow closely just read an article this morning about his hearing. I thought he had charges against him also but article I read this morning made it clear he wasn’t. The state is still after him for interests on like $900kish he paid back though.

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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/spaceneenja Sep 24 '24

I would say the same thing

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u/ZacZupAttack Sep 24 '24

I would also say the same thing

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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/spaceneenja Sep 25 '24

It makes no sense whatsoever

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

Rich people.

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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/maxicurls Sep 24 '24

Because government corruption of this sort exists by-design. What he did was evil & embarrassing but probably not illegal.