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Brett Favre Wanted $1.5M from Welfare Agency to Build Southern Miss Football Facility

Former Green Bay Packers quarterback and Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre allegedly sought $1.5 million from a Mississippi State welfare agency to build a football facility at Southern Miss, according to court documents, per A.J. Perez of Front Office Sports.

In text messages to former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant in July 2019, Favre said he wanted the money to build the facility to help lure Shedeur Sanders, Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sander's son, to Southern Miss:

“I picked up Deion Sanders and his son who is going to be a junior in high school and plays QB.