Brett Favre, who had a storied 20-year NFL career with the Green Bay Packers, New York Jets and others, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the massive Mississippi welfare scandal.
Text messages unearthed last week cast doubt on the idea that former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and Favre were unaware of the illegality involved in some of their maneuvers. Mississippi Today revealed that Bryant helped Favre obtain welfare funds in order to help build a new volleyball center at the University of Southern Mississippi.
In the texts, Bryant and Favre discussed how to divert at least $5 million in welfare funds to help build the Southern Miss volleyball facility.
In the aftermath, there seems to be two brands who have scrubbed most mentions of him.
Front Office Sports has the details:
“Hallow: The Catholic prayer and meditation app founded in 2018 announced in August it had partnered with Favre. Favre’s picture still appeared on the site Wednesday afternoon, but a mention of the partnership in the text has been scrubbed from an August version of the same page saved by the Internet Archive. Messages left with two Hallow executives were not returned.
Odyssey Health: Favre had been involved with the company’s nasal concussion product even before it acquired the technology from Prevacus — a startup that received about $2 million with the help of then-Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant that came from the Mississippi Department of Human Services. Despite being the main spokesperson for the company’s concussion product that is undergoing trials, he is no longer listed on Odyssey Health’s sports advisory board. Messages left with the company were not returned.”
The former Green Bay Packers QB and Hall of Fame inductee has not spoken out since the text messages have been released.
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The legend’s text messages are not the only time he faced problems. Two massage therapists filed a lawsuit against him with allegations stating he sent lewd pictures to one of the masseuses.
Both parties reached a settlement in 2013.
