OFFICIAL BRETT THE LIVING LEGEND THREAD

[mraynrand]

Brett says he did not no show anyone. He doesn't know where auditor came up with two speaking engagements missed.

https://madison.com/wsj/sports/football/professional/brett-favre-to-mississippi-officials-in-welfare-scandal-to-say-i-took-1-1-million/article_df774dab-6ea2-571f-8545-93a2db6966b2.html

Taking Brett at his word, the obvious explanation is that the org that was paying him made inaccurate or misleading claims about his involvement.

Everybody’s all-American.

[Zool]

It was for a PSA that never existed? Is that better?

[pbmax]

It was for a PSA that never existed? Is that better?

Forget it Zool, it's Mississippi.

[Patler]

Taking Brett at his word,

This might be the weakness of your analysis.

From the point in his career when he began routine interviews with the media, I have felt he says whatever he thinks will further his own objectives, and he convinces himself that it is the truth. He sometimes lives in his own version of reality.

[RashanGary]

Glad to see Yas ky and Patler. It's like the good old days, talking Favre and talkin shit.

[pbmax]

This might be the weakness of your analysis.

From the point in his career when he began routine interviews with the media, I have felt he says whatever he thinks will further his own objectives, and he convinces himself that it is the truth. He sometimes lives in his own version of reality.

Its a hypothetical. I just think the items on the receipts for the money are not the interesting part and likely can be explained away. And the difference between one party or the other describing them don't seem interesting to me. I could be wrong, it might lead to something

Why each party got the money and the connections between them are where the action is, it would seem to me.

[mraynrand]

This might be the weakness of your analysis.

From the point in his career when he began routine interviews with the media, I have felt he says whatever he thinks will further his own objectives, and he convinces himself that it is the truth. He sometimes lives in his own version of reality.

It’s a mistake to think Favre doesn’t know what he’s doing. “I just want to play for a team that plays against Green Bay. Minnesota plays them twice.”

[red]

I’m torn on this

On one hand I’d like to thing Favre isn’t dumb enough to do something like this, or so money hungry to do it

On the other hand, I know he’s not the brightest bulb in the drawer, and I’ve heard tons of first hand stories about just how frugal he is with money and how he and his extended family don’t like paying for anything and want everything given to them for free, even though they have plenty

[KYPack]

I’m torn on this

On one hand I’d like to thing Favre isn’t dumb enough to do something like this, or so money hungry to do it

On the other hand, I know he’s not the brightest bulb in the drawer, and I’ve heard tons of first hand stories about just how frugal he is with money and how he and his extended family don’t like paying for anything and want everything given to them for free, even though they have plenty

Yep Red. Those tales are true. One of BF's brothers was such a notorious freeloader, many places in GB insisted on seeing the color of his money before they would serve or feed him. Deanna is truly a sweet saint, but some of the family, not so much.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

The Old Gungslinger thinks Kap has reached Pat Tillman immortality. What the mama-effing fuck!

Scott Campbell and his ilk see Tillman as an American hero, as the dude who gave up everything to defend America’s freedom. To me, Tillman was a cowardly egoist.

Tillman was not drafted by the military. He was not in the military. He was not some burger-flipping loser with no life. He didn’t have to play soldier. Tillman had a family. He disregarded the emotional, physiological, and physical well-being of his family to egoistically seek war glory. In short, Tillman chose self-interest over the interests of his family. He was an egoist.

Kap ain’t no fucking egoist.

[texaspackerbacker]

I just about puked when I read this. Our Packer icon saying dumbshit crap like that. I was wondering if it would make it to the forum - I shoulda known you'd bring it up.

Where do you get off saying Tillman was not in the military? That's factually wrong. Clearly he was.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

I just about puked when I read this. Our Packer icon saying dumbshit crap like that. I was wondering if it would make it to the forum - I shoulda known you'd bring it up.

Where do you get off saying Tillman was not in the military? That's factually wrong. Clearly he was.

While in the NFL, Tillman was not an active member of any branch of the military, nor was he a reserve. The government didn’t need him in it’s invasion of the Middle East. I’d have empathy for Tillman if he was drafted or called up for service.

Dude had a nice family. He had a nice paying gig. He chose self-interest (war glory) over the well-being of his family. Consequently, that egoistic decision made a widow out of his wife, made his children grow up without their father.

Did fucking Odysseus, with a hot wife and newborn offspring, voluntarily sign up for the Trojan War? Dude faked insanity in hope of avoiding the war. It wasn’t til the Greeks threatened to kill his son did ole Odysseus relent.

Tillman ain’t Odysseus. Tillman was an egoist.

[SudsMcBucky]

While in the NFL, Tillman was not an active member of any branch of the military, nor was he a reserve. The government didn’t need him in it’s invasion of the Middle East. I’d have empathy for Tillman if he was drafted or called up for service.

Dude had a nice family. He had a nice paying gig. He chose self-interest (war glory) over the well-being of his family. Consequently, that egoistic decision made a widow out of his wife, made his children grow up without their father.

Did fucking Odysseus, with a hot wife and newborn offspring, voluntarily sign up for the Trojan War? Dude faked insanity in hope of avoiding the war. It wasn’t til the Greeks threatened to kill his son did ole Odysseus relent.

Tillman ain’t Odysseus. Tillman was an egoist.

Or maybe he chose to join the military because....maybe....he loves the country and went to defend it. You're a dipshit.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Or maybe he chose to join the military because....maybe....he loves the country and went to defend it. You're a dipshit.

More than he loved his family? If I had a lovely wife and she was shipped off to war, I'd be reeking of anxiety every day. Tillman didn't have to be a pawn. He chose to be one over his family. That's egoism.

[pbmax]

Or maybe he chose to join the military because....maybe....he loves the country and went to defend it. You're a dipshit.

This is the problem with public notoriety. Tillman did not just join out of love for country, he went, in part anyway, because defense of the nation seemed foisted on the least fortunate. And he wanted to critique the war first hand. Some in Tillman's own family weren't sure the Army would want him in a fighting unit given his propensity to question orthodoxy.

Tillman: https://vault.si.com/vault/2006/09/11/remember-his-name

Jake Plummer on Tillman: https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/06/30/si...denver-broncos

Tank is being an ass about it, but some in his own platoon wondered the same thing he is. They wouldn't choose to be there if they could earn five million elsewhere. He was looked at as an interloper.