ESPN is catching heat over their silence in the Brett Favre welfare scandal.
Last week, incriminating text messages were leaked that showed Favre’s involvement in a scheme featuring former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant in which $5 million in welfare money was used to fund a new volleyball arena for the school in which Favre’s daughter attended and played volleyball.
The newly released texts show that Gov. Bryant, Brett Favre, and others worked together to channel at least $5 million of the state’s welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at University of S. Mississippi, where Favre’s daughter played the sport https://t.co/V4gmAFPN7Q
— Devlin Barrett (@DevlinBarrett) September 13, 2022
Brett Favre: Will the media find out that we're using welfare funds intended to help the poorest residents of America's poorest state to build a volleyball center?
Nancy New: Nah. Oh yeah, the governor is fully on board!@ayewolfe five years later: https://t.co/rWXHRXISsu pic.twitter.com/wo3QuIYXaY
— Adam Ganucheau (@GanucheauAdam) September 13, 2022
Despite the seriousness of Favre’s scandal, it appears that ESPN has largely ignored the story.
The Internet has noticed ESPN’s silence on the subject and are crushing them for it.
ESPN being too quiet about Brett Favre…. We saw Vick dogfighting coverage headlines for months, this is considerably worse.
— Scribe O’ The Times (@BlacktrickEwing) September 20, 2022
ESPN @espn being too quiet about Brett Favre…
Brett Favre allegedly stole $5M from Mississippi's poorest 600K children, women, & men as they suffered & starved.
— @craigblue (@HCraigBlue) September 20, 2022
The fact that the Brett Favre apparent scandal is NOWHERE on the ESPN front page says a lot actually. (I scrolled down….still nothing) pic.twitter.com/7Mrjg3FjjR
— Rob Carlmark (@rcarlmark) September 15, 2022
The fact that @espn isn’t covering #BrettFavre stealing FIVE MILLION dollars from a welfare organization but had extreme & repetitive coverage on #MikeVick’s dogfighting situation tells me what we already knew. White America cares more about animals than poor kids.
— DuffJuice (@DuffJuice30) September 20, 2022
ESPN will tell you a Black athlete got arrested for a fight at a nightclub every hour for a week but quiet on Favre embezzling millions from the poor.
— ™️ (@ThatDakari) September 21, 2022
