Brett Favre: Texts show former NFL QB wanted welfare funds for football facility

MADISON, WISCONSIN - JUNE 11: Former NFL player Brett Favre throws a football to a fan on the 14th green during the Celebrity Foursome at the second round of the American Family Insurance Championship at University Ridge Golf Club on June 11, 2022 in JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - After Mississippi spent millions of dollars in welfare money on Brett Favre’s pet project, a university volleyball arena, the retired NFL quarterback tried two years later to get additional cash from the state’s welfare agency for another sports facility, new court documents show.The governor at the time, Republican Phil Bryant, texted in 2019 with Favre, who wanted to build an indoor practice facility for the University of Southern Mississippi’s football team.

Bryant told him federal money for children and low-income adults is "tightly controlled" and "improper use could result in violation of Federal Law."Text messages between Bryant and Favre are in court documents filed Friday by Bryant’s lawyers, which seek to show the governor was willing to help Favre raise private money for the volleyball facility starting in 2017 and was unaware for more than two years that welfare money was going to the project.RELATED: Brett Favre, ex-governor accused of welfare misspending in MississippiMississippi’s largest-ever public corruption case has ensnared several people, including a pro wrestler whose drug rehab was funded with welfare money.The state has filed a civil lawsuit against Favre and others to recover more than $20 million in misspent welfare money intended to help needy people in one of the country's poorest states.

Bryant and Favre are not facing criminal charges, and Bryant is not among those named in the state’s civil lawsuit.A former director of the.