{"id":2816,"date":"2022-11-09T16:19:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/brett-favre-is-back-on-his-bullsht\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T16:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:19:59","slug":"brett-favre-is-back-on-his-bullsht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/brett-favre-is-back-on-his-bullsht\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Favre is back on his bullsh!t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The GIST: <\/strong>NFL legend Brett Favre\u2019s in hot water\u2026again. His ongoing welfare scandal became even messier with yesterday\u2019s reporting that two concussion drug companies he backed allegedly overstated the effectiveness of their products <em>and<\/em> were supported by money from Mississippi\u2019s welfare fund. <a href=\"https:\/\/thegist.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-akjktkk-jyuidtido-m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sound familiar<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The context: <\/strong>Favre made headlines last month when reports emerged that he diverted Mississippi welfare funds in order to build a new volleyball stadium at his daughter\u2019s college.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Then, <a href=\"https:\/\/thegist.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-akjktkk-jyuidtido-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">text messages<\/a> showed that not only did Favre push to swindle $5M from the nation\u2019s poorest state, he persisted in those efforts <em>despite <\/em>being told it was illegal, among other troubling transgressions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The latest: <\/strong>Yesterday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thegist.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-akjktkk-jyuidtido-q\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN bombshell<\/a> revealed that Favre is a top investor in two companies that developed a nasal spray to treat concussions and a cream to prevent them. Favre is accused of helping the Florida-based companies secure more than $2.1M in Mississippi welfare funds to support that development. WTF, indeed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n  n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n  document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '1716705275141133'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegistsports.com\/article\/f1920a6a-afa0-4d1f-b5ef-d89dc465538f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GIST: NFL legend Brett Favre\u2019s in hot water\u2026again. His ongoing welfare scandal became even messier with yesterday\u2019s reporting that two concussion drug companies he backed allegedly overstated the effectiveness of their products and were supported by money from Mississippi\u2019s welfare fund. Sound familiar? The context: Favre made headlines last month when reports emerged that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}