By now we’ve gotten used to the idea that athletes may not be as accountable off the field as they are forced to be on it.
The latest case in point would be in Mississippi, where favorite son Brett Favre engaged in a Twitter feud with the state auditor over more than $1 million paid out to the former quarterback that should have gone to the poor and hungry in the state.
Frankly, it’s hard to understand what Favre was thinking when he accepted $1.1 million in federal money given to a nonprofit organization — money that was originally intended to help needy people in one of the poorest states in the U.