Even before he was accused of scamming $8 million from the poorest people in the poorest state, the NFL QB was accused of sexual misconduct by three New York Jets employees.
. But Favre, who made $140 million in salary during his Hall of Fame NFL career, and tens of millions more as a spokesman for Wrangler and others, allegedly took, which ostensibly provides aid to poor families in Mississippi and Wisconsin, and funneled it into unrelated ventures, including a new $5 million facility for his daughter’s college volleyball team, and a small round of investment for a biotech company he’d sunk money into.
During his time in the NFL, Favre was regarded by the media as a kind of feral animal-John Wayne hybrid. He was the Gunslinger—a sloppy quarterback with a big-ass arm who aired it out week after week andtook days off . He also threw 336 interceptions—the most all time, and 59 more than the next person on the list, George Blanda.
But people didn’t care about any of that back then. Remember, this was before the internet let us air out every athlete in the world, and Favre’s recklessness was seen as charming, his screw-ups the product of a mindset that was inseparable from what made him great. As more system-oriented quarterbacks like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady came up in the league, an in-decline Favre transformed into mythical figure among those who couldn’t let go of their John Wayne-as-athlete fantasy.
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