Quarterback legend Brett Favre suffers from Parkinson’s disease!

by Daniel Kugler

Shock for an NFL legend!

Former star quarterback Brett Favre testified before Congress that he was “recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease,” reports Front Office Sports.

The quarterback legend testified at a welfare reform hearing that discussed the distribution of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds. That included nearly $8 million that went to Favre, as well as a volleyball stadium at the University of Southern Mississippi and Prevacus, a defunct drug company backed by the longtime NFL quarterback.

Favre, who played 20 seasons in the NFL, including 321 regular-season and playoff games, estimated in a 2022 interview on “The Bubba Army” radio show that he suffered “thousands” of concussions during his football career was suffered.

According to Yahoo Sports, Favre is said to have accepted $1.1 million in funding from Mississippi State. He is said to have accepted these funds in return for speeches from 2017 that were not published.

According to testimony before Congress, Favre will not face criminal charges

Favre also allegedly worked with a nonprofit organizer and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant to use $5 million in TANF funds to build a new volleyball facility at Southern Miss while his daughter played for the team.

Favre was not arrested following his testimony before Congress and will not face any further criminal charges in the matter. He is one of 47 “well-connected individuals” who diverted $77 million in funds from intended recipients in one of the poorest states in the United States, federal prosecutors said.

According to the underlying report, Favre repaid $500,000 to Mississippi in May 2020 and the remaining $600,000 in October 2021. However, the state has been collecting the interest since then. Aaron Rodgers’ predecessor with the Green Bay Packers also said he didn’t know the funds used at Southern Miss were intended for welfare recipients.

“I wanted to help my alma mater and support the community,” Favre told Congress. “Southern Miss introduced me to the nonprofit to see if they could help me with funding. I had no way of knowing that there was anything wrong with the state’s funding of the project, especially since it was approved publicly by many state agencies and “several lawyers, including the attorney general,” the 54-year-old testified.