[suspenseful music playing]
[music stops]
[somber music playing]
[man] Being a star quarterback in the NFL,
it's not easy to do it on a big stage,
but we prepare our whole life for it.
[whoosh]
[Vick] Everybody wish they could be
an NFL quarterback.
You know, you get paid all the money.
You got the ball in your hands every play,
and you get all the notoriety.
I think we need to understand
the quarterback position as a whole.
[crowd cheering]
This is a very exalted position.
[cheering]
[woman] You know, many are called,
few are chosen.
And Brett Favre was definitely one
of the chosen ones.
[droning rock music playing]
Brett Favre... we treat him differently.
[woman] Brett Favre was a cult-like,
iconic figure in the pantheon of sports.
[commentator 1] What a throw!
Favre put it right on the money!
[woman] He won MVPs...
[commentator 2] Brett Favre,
the league's most valuable player
for the third consecutive year.
[woman] ...in the Super Bowl.
It's been a long road, but we're here.
We wanna thank all of you. Thank you.
[woman] Having that allure,
people put him on a pedestal.
[commentator 3] That's what separates
the boys from the men, a throw like that.
[man 1] Some people might say
he was a football god.
[people chanting] MVP! MVP!
[man 1] But, I mean, look,
there are a lot of reasons why you might
question Brett Favre's inner goodness.
- [men talking excitedly]
- [man 2] Oh! Oh!
[man 3] Brett!
[anchor] Allegations
that he sent lewd texts and photos
to a New York Jets sideline employee.
[man 4] Why are we shocked
a player wanted to sleep with you?
You were selling sex.
Because I think there's some level
of professionalism
that's expected in the workplace.
He was like that guy at the bar
that just could not get the hint.
[Favre] I'm going back to the hotel.
Would love to have you come over tonight.
[man 5] He starts to go through life
thinking, "I can do whatever I want."
At what level does that stop?
I mean, I'm not getting into that.
[man 6] In the life of Brett Favre,
not everything is what it seems.
Maybe we shouldn't be surprised
that he got caught up
in a federal welfare
misappropriation scandal.
[reporter 1] "If you were to pay me,
is there any way
the media can find out
where it came from and how much?"
[reporter 2] Text messages
connect the plan
to divert millions of dollars
in welfare funds
to pet projects
of Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre.
The rules are made
for the people who don't have power.
They're not made
for wealthy, famous people.
[man 7] In certain circles,
he's still an icon.
That doesn't mean that he can't do wrong.
He did do wrong.
I don't know how he sleeps at night.
People don't want
most of that stuff to come out.
People want to have their heroes.
We didn't make it up, Brett Favre.
This stuff was reported.
Where the hell have you been?
[ominous music playing]
When someone shows you who they are,
believe them.
[haunting music playing]
[music fades]
[birds tweeting]
[man 1] Honestly, in Green Bay,
this is it.
- [distant yell]
- [determined music thumping]
[man 1] This is
what you hook your seat into.
This is what you schedule
your weddings around.
[man 2] This isn't a big market,
but the franchise is just historic.
[commentator]
For the second straight year,
Coach Vince Lombardi
received the championship trophy
from Commissioner Pete Rozelle.
- [man 3] Second world championship.
- I hope this is a habit. [laughs]
[man 2] To have success here
as a Green Bay Packer, it's special.
Go, Pack! Go!
[man 4] Good morning,
Green Bay Packer fans!
Let's go, baby!
[gentle country music playing]
[Michaels] I was part of the Packers'
radio network for over a decade,
and my first entry into Wisconsin
was my very first weekend here.
So I went to church,
and I'd never seen a pastor of a church
do a Catholic Mass
wearing a Packers beret
and a green-and-gold sash.
This is where so much history
has taken place.
This is where Lombardi walked.
What the team means
to the people of Green Bay...
Really, it's Wisconsin.
It's... it's a nation.
[man 5] The football history here
is so incredible,
and they were the team of the '60s.
The Steelers were the team of the '70s.
The Niners were the team of the '80s.
And the Packers faded
from greatness to basically mediocrity.
And mediocrity might be being nice.
When it's a franchise that is
so identified with the town that it's in,
a 20-year slump can be pretty deflating.
So when they're dominant again,
the level of hero worship
is gonna be next level.
[commentator 1] Brett Favre has desire
to play college football
and is just waiting to prove his talents
on a major college level.
Well, right now,
LSU, Tulane, and Southern Mississippi
is looking at me pretty good.
I'd like to play ball
at one of those colleges.
Uh... it's gonna depend.
I don't have the credentials
as the rest of the quarterbacks,
but, uh... the size is helping me.
My speed's not that good,
but I think I can do it.
[man 6] You only had to
see Brett throw a football one time
to see the arm strength,
and, uh...
there's just very few human beings
that can do
what he could do with a football.
[dramatic music playing]
[Cleveland] His freshman year,
they were playing Tulane at home,
and they were down
by two touchdowns at halftime.
[commentator 2] Coach Jim Carmody
called on Brett Favre
in the third quarter.
Number four displayed his leadership
and God-given talent,
and the Southern Miss legend
of Brett Favre was hatched.
[man 7] Here's a 17-year-old boy
coming into the game.
He's a true freshman,
and not only to do real well,
but to lead them to a victory too,
it was just tremendous, tremendous.
Probably the most exciting thing
that I've ever had happen to me.
[man 8] From day one, he was a competitor.
You wouldn't have known
that he was a freshman.
We used to have this play
we called four-back hide,
five- to seven-yard crossing route.
He threw the pass
like he was throwing a 70-yard b*mb.
Feel like my fingers
are still hurting from that pass.
[commentator 3] Favre being chased.
Throws deep, completes the pass.
That's all Mr. Brett Favre.
He only knew one speed,
and that was he threw fastballs.
[Warnsley] This guy was breaking fingers,
breaking pads,
could've probably
thrown through some walls.
They began to call him,
uh... the gunslinger.
[commentator 4] I'm telling you what.
Better be ready for the ball
if you're a receiver downfield.
He can get it to you
no matter where you are.
[commentator 5] Touchdown,
Southern Mississippi.
[dramatic music builds, fades]
[reporter] More than a hundred
family members, friends, and media
camped out
at Irvin and Bonita Favre's home
for the broadcast of the 1991 NFL Draft.
[Cleveland] I had talked to Bus Cook,
Brett's agent,
in the weeks leading up to the draft,
and he felt certain
he was gonna go in the first round.
Well, we'll see in the coming years
who's the best quarterback, and I think...
- [crowd] Yeah!
- [Brett chuckles]
[scattered applause]
And I'll prove...
You know, I'll prove to everyone
that I am the best.
[Cleveland] I think everybody
that had watched him play in college
thought,
"Surely, he'll go in the first round."
[presenter] We are back, live coverage,
six and a half hours here
of the NFL Draft.
Brett Favre, four-year starter
for the Golden Eagles at Southern Miss.
Thirty teams passed on him
in the first round, you know.
Atlanta has selected Brett Favre,
quarterback, Southern Mississippi.
[scattered applause]
[presenter] So Atlanta gets a favor
by selecting Brett Favre.
[reporter] When you go to a Falcons game,
you might not notice any differences
in Brett Favre.
After all, he's still wearing black,
still wearing number four.
However, there's one big difference.
He's not playing.
Matter of fact,
he hasn't taken a snap all year.
[Michaels] When he was down there
in Atlanta,
Jerry Glanville didn't even
wanna let him play.
[commentator 1] From their own 12, Favre.
[cheering]
[commentator 2] And it's intercepted
by Andre Collins.
Touchdown, Washington.
Didn't call him Favre. Called him Country.
He didn't know what a Cover 2 was.
He didn't study film. He...
They just figured,
"Ah, he's just a backup."
[birds tweeting]
[man] I originally began working
in professional football
in 1963 for the Oakland Raiders.
- [jaunty music playing]
- [Wolf] I was hired by Al Davis.
Thirty-seven active years in the NFL.
When I went to Green Bay, everybody said,
you know, "You're an idiot."
"Why would you go to Green Bay?
You don't have a chance up there."
You know, in those days, when other teams
wanted to discipline a player,
they sent a guy to Green Bay.
I got there around Thanksgiving of 1991,
but they were
in sorry, sorry condition, sorry shape.
I flew out to Atlanta
to watch the Falcons play the Packers.
Before the game, Ken Herock
is running the Atlanta operation,
and he says, "Hey, Ron,
if you wanna see Favre throw,
you gotta go down there and watch him now
'cause when his team comes out,
they won't let him take part of that."
And it was there that I found out
that I had a chance to get Favre
and, uh... went to work on it right away.
[cheering]
[Wolf] There wasn't anybody,
I thought, that could compare to him.
I mean, he had everything
you would want in a quarterback.
The Falcons did not realize
what they had with Brett.
I mean, it was one of those things
where, you know, I was in it a long time,
so you have an opportunity
to eventually get one right.
[chuckles] And I got one right.
[reporter] Living in Green Bay has been
an adjustment for this Mississippi native.
It is as cold as they say it is,
but the people here are very nice,
and it's... it's a lot of fun.
Um... Plus, I guess, when you win
in this town, it really goes crazy.
[reporter] The 23-year-old Favre
is a bachelor.
He has a three-year-old daughter,
Brittany, who lives in Mississippi.
It started 1992 game, Cincinnati Bengals.
[determined music playing]
I was the starting quarterback
Brett Favre's first year here in 1992.
sh**t, the first time
we had the ball in the first quarter,
in the first pass play of that game,
I went back to pass.
[commentator 1] Majkowski under pressure,
and he goes down.
Tim Krumrie was their defensive tackle,
and he came in, and he landed on my ankle
and twisted it pretty good.
[commentator 2] That might be it
for him today.
[Wolf] Majkowski gets hurt.
Brett comes in.
[commentator 2] Brett Favre will be
the next quarterback.
[Wolf] There's a minute and four seconds.
Brooks catches a kickoff
and runs out of bounds.
[commentator 3] What a terrible play
by Brooks.
If he doesn't catch the ball,
the ball will be a first down at the 35.
So now there's a minute and four seconds.
Ninety-two yards.
[commentator 1] Here, Brett Favre.
You want a challenge? Try this one.
[Wolf] Throws an out to Harry Sydney.
[commentator 1] Favre unlooses it.
[Wolf] Throws a pass to Sterling Sharpe.
Threw across the middle to Vince Workman.
[cheering]
Now we're at the 40.
[commentator 1] The best receiver out
of the game, from the 35, 19 seconds left.
[Wolf] And he uncorks the thing
to Kitrick Taylor.
[commentator 1] Touchdown!
Ball game.
[cheering]
[commentator 1] Is there a spark of life
in Green Bay?
Did Brett Favre wake up
an echo or two with that one?
[reporter] Brett Favre, in at quarterback
and just a tremendous acquisition
for the Green Bay Packers.
[Wolf] Twenty-seven years of futility.
Here comes this guy
from Southern Mississippi,
and he brings about such a change
to the losing operation.
[commentator 1] Brett Favre does it again.
[commentator 2] What a play by Favre!
Are you kidding?
From that point on,
we never had a losing season.
And that started
the legend of Brett Favre.
[intriguing music playing]
[music fades]
[woman] Growing up in a family
that loved sports,
it was a big part of my upbringing
in terms of, like, just being a fan.
But I was so uncoordinated and awkward,
and I always gravitated
towards, like, the arts, you know.
I was the kid that, like... I was like,
"Can I get a PE credit for band?"
"'Cause that's what I'm gonna do."
[lighthearted music playing]
[Sterger] I lived and breathed
marching band in high school.
Like, I had to learn about football
being in band
because you have to know
when you're allowed to play.
But, yeah, football was always
just a part of marching band.
I didn't really think about sports
as a career.
I really wanted to be an entertainer,
and then my parents told me that I was
never gonna make any money doing that.
And so I went to school for criminology
and psychology at Florida State.
[band plays upbeat music]
[Sterger] In college, like,
I still felt like a weirdo,
and I really don't feel
like I fit in until...
that football game.
[playful music playing]
[Sterger] At Florida State,
the game was the only place to be,
and you had to win the lottery
in order to get tickets.
We were
the Monday night football game in 2005.
It was Miami Hurricanes versus
Florida State Seminoles at Doak Campbell.
It was a big rivalry game, you know,
so it was like, "If I'm gonna go
to one in person, like, this is the one."
[commentator] Top of the hour here
from Tallahassee.
I'm with Jack Arute and Gary Danielson.
I'm Brent Musburger.
Thanks for joining us here tonight.
[Sterger] That night was surreal
because I had been bartending all day long
at, like, a tailgating event.
Somebody spilled beer all down my shirt,
but I had... luckily had
a bathing-suit top underneath it,
so I was like, "I'm just gonna wear this."
It's 98 degrees outside. It's super humid.
It was September in Florida.
I'm like, "There's dudes who are
practically naked wearing glitter."
"I'm fine." You know?
[whooping and cheering]
[Sterger] When the broadcast
was happening,
I would get occasional texts from people
like, "Are you at the game right now?"
They're like, "I'm pretty sure
I saw you on television."
Then my dad started getting texts too,
like, "We think we saw Jenn on camera?"
"She didn't have a lot of clothes on,
but I think it was Jenn."
Um... so that was weird.
[indistinct shouting]
[Musburger] Fifteen hundred
red-blooded Americans
just decided to apply to Florida State.
[Sterger] I found out the next day
on the Internet
what Brent Musburger said.
And then Deadspin published photos of me
from the sidelines,
and it just totally changed
the trajectory of my life.
[whimsical music plays]
I always viewed the Cowgirl like,
"This is just this alter ego that I have
that I get to pretend to be
when I go to football games."
Because every other day of the week,
if you ran into me on campus,
you would not recognize me.
So people were always weirded out
when they figured out who I was.
Because they were just like, "Really?"
And I'm like, "Did you think
I was gonna wear that to class?"
When I got discovered, it was, like,
right at the beginning of message boards.
It was right at the beginning of Facebook.
I was the most popular person on Facebook.
I maxed out my Facebook.
I was the first person to do that.
It was truly viral.
You weren't being pushed around
by an algorithm.
You were being pushed around
by actual people.
That's how Maxim found me.
That's how Playboy found me.
And, no shade, I played the game.
[presenter] In college,
the next woman on our list
learned that a mind
is a terrible thing to waste,
and so are
more than 4,000 Facebook friends.
Hottest woman of the web number 19
is the Internet's most popular coed,
Jenn Sterger.
It's funny because it was... it went
Playboy, Maxim, Sports Illustrated,
which is kind of the reverse order
you wanna do that in.
I wrote, like,
an article for Sports Illustrated,
and it was
one of their most viewed articles,
uh, for all
of their college-football stuff.
And they offered me a full-time job.
[all] You're watching Jenn Sterger
on SI.com.
LSU! LSU!
Honestly, it felt so cool every week
to step onto a new campus
and show the rest of the country
why that college campus
on any particular Saturday
was the place to be.
Hi, I'm Jenn Sterger from SI.com,
and welcome to the third edition
of the Jenn-X Road Show.
I feel like when I got there, I was like,
"Oh, like, this is where I was supposed
to be this whole time."
I got to meet famous coaches,
people who went on to play,
you know, in the NBA, in the NFL.
I'm here with a man that changed my life
almost two years ago today,
Mr. Brent Musburger.
Did you have any idea what you were
gonna start by that one little comment?
No, Jenn, I had... I had no idea,
but I must say that you and your friend
were one of the most attractive cutaways
that we've ever had.
It's crazy to think
about, like, something so chance
totally changed the trajectory of my life.
When I see all the girls
in the stands now,
I'm like,
"Often imitated, never duplicated."
[chuckles softly]
It's very Gift of the Magi.
It's very, like,
"Be careful what you wish for," you know?
[man 1] I first met Brett Favre
in the fall of 1995.
I covered, like, seven or eight straight
Packers games that they won.
And so he, at one point, said to me,
"From now on, you come into town,
you're... you're going to dinner with us
on Friday night,"
and so I covered Favre a lot.
- What size shoe do you wear, Peter?
- Fourteen.
- [man 2] He wears 14?
- Yeah. [chuckles]
- I can't even believe it.
- God-dawg, Peter.
[King] He was the kind of football player
that everyone in America wanted
their football heroes to be.
Blood and guts
and "I will do anything it takes."
And I saw it firsthand.
[commentator 1] Good afternoon, everybody,
and welcome to New Orleans, Louisiana.
And it has finally arrived,
the day we've waited for,
I guess, for about 29 years now,
for the Green Bay Packers
to play in the Super Bowl.
[commentator 2] A strike from Favre.
The longest touchdown pass
in Super Bowl history.
[faint cheering]
Here's Favre, pushed.
[commentator 3] There's Irv Favre.
He said, "That's a touchdown."
And this is what it's all about.
Winning a championship.
The greatest moment of your life.
You'll never forget it.
- They could never take it away.
- [triumphant music playing]
[Michaels] In the heart of Packers fans,
I think Brett is and will always be
the guy that brought the title
back to Titletown.
So when Brett won,
you go to a level of icon
unlike anybody's ever seen.
And he was the face.
He was the poster child for everything.
I know Brett.
- He's got the championship ring.
- He's got the MVP trophy.
- Got these braces.
- Braces?
Brett wears braces?
Cool!
[King] He had this presence about him
that just made you wanna be around him.
[man] Okay!
[commentator 4] This breaks Bart Starr's
all-time Packer record.
Easily the most charismatic player
I've covered in 50 years.
[deliberate music playing]
[Michaels] He was the guy that was fun.
He was one of you.
He hunted. He fished.
To then ascend to a level
to where people just wanna touch you,
like you're the pope
or, you know, you're even higher...
[commentator 5] And it's a slant.
He's got it! There it is!
And Brett Favre is
the all-time touchdown-pass leader.
[Tomlinson] He was treated like a god.
I mean, there's no question.
I don't even think that's overstating it.
[Michaels] To the people of Green Bay,
you are responsible for our souls,
our hopes, our dreams, our kids' names,
the streets that are named
outside of Lambeau Field.
[commentator 1] And the Green Bay Packers,
for the third year in a row,
have won their division.
[commentator 2] Favre,
the league's most valuable player.
[commentator 3] Three consecutive years.
Never happened before.
But is there a negative side
of being put up on the pedestal? Yeah.
[Tomlinson] When you're a superstar
on the level that Brett was,
there probably wasn't a whole lot
he couldn't get away with
when he was in Wisconsin.
[cheering, whistling]
[men] Hey, we want some p*ssy!
[Tomlinson] There was a lot
of womanizing going on,
you know, early in his career here.
And if you follow the team around
for five years like I did,
you know, you see certain things.
When his wife, Deanna, was going
through chemotherapy for breast cancer,
my editor pulled me aside and said,
"I want you to write a story
about Brett Favre, the family man."
And I was kinda like,
"Yeah, I... I don't write fiction."
[man] Let me hear "what's up"
for Brett Favre!
- Welcome to Milwaukee!
- [cheering continues]
[Tomlinson] People would do anything
for, you know, 30 seconds of his time.
When that's your life for 15 years,
you get a distorted view
of what reality is.
[cheering and music fade]
[Michaels] After they won the Super Bowl,
uh, Brett got Irv a ring
and gave it to him.
Um... and Irv got a little emotional
and left the room
and called his friends and said,
"Can you believe what Brett did?"
But never said thank you to Brett.
[somber music playing]
[Michaels] I've seen the videos
of Irv coaching, playing with the kids,
but, remember, he was tough too.
You cannot be soft,
and that was what Irv believed.
Ever since he was little,
he had a strong arm.
Second of all, he's smart.
He's got good football sense,
but he's just a smart kid.
And, uh, the third thing, he's a big kid.
[Michaels] We would talk to Irv
after the games, and we'd say,
"Man, he went 27 for 35
and had 325 yards,
three touchdowns, and a pick."
And Irv would look at us and go,
"Can you believe
that interception he threw?"
He would just criticize him, you know,
because that's Irv. He was the coach.
[Cleveland] I mean, he was
an old-school football coach
that believed in discipline.
There's no question
that his environment growing up
had a lot to do with... with his toughness.
[Michaels] I knew the relationship,
and I knew Brett loved his dad,
loves his dad,
and I knew the respect he had for his dad.
He valued Irv's opinion,
and Irv would have a very strong opinion.
There's... there's just...
Irv just believed
in certain things you do and don't do.
I got a call that said,
"Hey, Bill, I need you to sit down."
I said, "What's going on?"
He said, "Irv died."
And I'm like, "There's no way."
Not Irv. I mean...
And they said,
"Yeah, he had a heart attack,
and before anybody could get to him,
he was dead in the ditch in the car."
I think Brett had a certain level
of non-accountability
when he became Brett Favre.
But once Irv passed,
he was the only one in charge of him.
And I think that's where maybe
things got a little off the rails.
[Tomlinson] Brett got here, and they were
a play-off team within a year,
and then Super Bowl a couple years later.
When you're winning MVP
and someone's saying,
"Hey, I need you to do it like this,"
you're not gonna listen.
Drives you a little nuts
some of the times.
[Michaels] There was a scene once.
Mike Sherman was the head coach,
and Brett threw a pass,
and, I mean, Mike Sherman exploded,
just was ranting and raving.
And I finally asked Brett,
after he retired,
I said, "What did Sherman say to you?
Do you remember that?"
He goes, "Oh, I remember it."
And he said,
"Sherman was ranting and raving at me."
And you know, "Damn it this,"
and, "Damn it that."
Brett looked, smiled, and said,
"What are you gonna do about it?"
You start to get a sense of invincibility.
[cheering]
With the 24th selection
in the 2005 NFL Draft,
the Green Bay Packers
select Aaron Rodgers,
quarterback from California.
[cheering and applause]
[Michaels] When Ted Thompson,
who was the general manager at the time,
drafted Aaron,
that was it.
That was the beginning of the end.
[commentator 1] Favre throws
on first down,
intercepted for a touchdown.
Bad mistake by Brett Favre.
Favre pressured, and they've got him.
[Tomlinson] During the 2005 season,
when they went 4 and 12,
you know, he stopped being
as available as he had been previously.
[commentator 1] Favre goes deep
for Donald Lee,
and it's intercepted by Chris Harris.
[commentator 2] The 25th interception
thrown by Brett Favre this year.
You didn't really see him,
except in passing.
He wasn't in the locker room
with the rest of the team.
There would be some people like,
"He's not the player he used to be,"
but other people would be like,
"How dare you ever criticize Brett Favre?"
[Michaels] I'll never forget
when they first redid Lambeau Field,
and they had an event called Fan Fest.
[cheering and applause]
[Michaels] That particular year,
Brett had thought about retiring,
and, uh... Brett hemmed and hawed about it.
Brett just said, "What if I had said
I wasn't gonna come back?"
[crowd groans] Oh!
[presenter] Are you coming back
for another season?
- Yes, I am.
- [raucous cheering and applause]
[Michaels] You could shut it down
and say, "I don't wanna talk about it,"
but he would talk about it,
and every year, it became a discussion.
This might be it this year.
It may be two years down the road.
I mean, for the last seven years,
we've been talking
about when I was leaving.
- Something's gotta give at some point.
- [ominous music playing]
Either I decide that enough is enough,
or, uh... or they do.
Ted Thompson, the general manager,
wanted him to be all in.
Take six weeks off,
and then you gotta come back.
Brett just didn't really like
being a quarterback 12 months a year.
[Letterman] If there could be adjustments
made for your training summer schedule,
would that be of interest to you?
[audience laughing]
Um...
Can you... can you get that to work?
[audience laughs, applauds]
[Letterman laughs]
[Michaels] I think he wanted to say,
"I don't know. Wait for me."
And the Packers would've went,
"Oh, we'll wait for you. You're Brett."
But they knew
what they had in Aaron Rodgers.
And knowing how stubborn Brett was,
he just said, "To hell with it. I quit."
I am officially retiring from the NFL
and Green Bay Packers.
I know I can play,
but I don't think I want to.
And that's really what it comes down to.
[King] Great athletes have egos,
and Brett had an ego.
On the Saturday before the Packers
were supposed to report,
I was in Favre's kitchen,
and he had an agent, Bus Cook,
who was telling him,
"They're gonna come back to you."
And Brett said,
"What do you think?" to me,
and I said, "I think if you wanna play,
you're gonna have to go
to the Jets or the Bucs."
"I don't think
you're getting your job back."
Bus thought I was full of it.
And when Brett went there, he found out,
"I'm not gonna get my job back."
So he got sold on the Jets,
and, you know, the rest is history.
[man] I've always been a football fan,
I guess.
Sadly, I watch the Jets.
Not a lot of winning, but I watched
a lot of football by the New York Jets.
The New York Jets were the team
that I always rooted for growing up.
and that's why I think
they were looking for someone
to bring, uh, some excitement in,
some money in.
And I think
that's where, uh... the next season,
where Brett Favre came into play.
[reporter 1] This morning,
Favre was welcomed to town
by Mayor Bloomberg
in a ceremony at City Hall.
This is gonna be a great year.
Thank you. A pleasure.
- [reporter 2] Taken a good look at that?
- I have.
I want these guys to know me, what I'm...
know what I'm about, how I play.
I'm here for one reason.
I'm here to help the Jets win.
[Andre] It was huge when he came. Huge.
And then that's the year,
after training camp,
when I started working with Jenn,
um, every Sunday for the games.
What's up, Hoboken? I'm Jenn Sterger,
your newest resident
and Jets game-day host.
Thanks for letting me stick around.
[Sterger, in interview]
Before I came to the Jets,
I was essentially an influencer for hire.
They liked what I was doing
for Sports Illustrated,
and so they were like, "Hey, we are
thinking of having this in-stadium host."
And I was so excited.
I was like,
"Okay, I'm here. The industry's here."
"This is gonna be good for me."
Well, it's my job as game-day host
to make sure everyone in the stadium's
having a great time.
And it's more so
to create that home-field advantage,
get the crowd into it,
and hopefully
I can represent the Jets well.
[interviewer] Were you hired
before Brett Favre was signed?
I was signed well before Brett Favre.
I think I'm definitely
a better acquisition than he was.
[interviewer chuckles]
[Sterger] My job at the Jets
had very loose guidelines.
I would arrive there,
and they would just throw stuff at me
and be like,
"We're gonna have you do this."
They'd give a rundown,
but that always got thrown out the window.
[Andre] I don't know why they picked me.
My supervisor, he was like,
"Well, you're gonna be, um...
kinda like security and helping her out."
I'm like... I'm looking around
like, "I'm not a security guard."
He was like, "You'll be fine."
I'm like, "Okay."
You have to remember,
I was a lowly supervisor,
like, of interns.
The things that they had her do
sometimes was a little crazy,
and she would get nervous,
like, having to go into the stands
because that's... I mean, the crowd
at an NFL game is a wild place for anyone,
let alone for Jenn Sterger
to go walk up in there.
- [fans shouting]
- [men] J-E-T-S! Jets!
- [man 1] Let's go! Let's go!
- [man 2] Yeah!
You guys were a little starstruck.
Brett Favre's here, I mean...
I'm looking at Brett Favre over there.
Like, that right there is crazy to me.
[laughter]
I really wanted to be
Erin Andrews or Suzy Kolber,
and the Jets was
the biggest step in my career.
I was just happy to be there.
It's really cool. I get to travel
to different cities and, you know...
[woman] I met Jenn,
and I knew she was somebody
who really wanted to have a media career.
When I think about
when I got into the business,
there were a lot of women
who withstood some very awful treatment,
um... by teams, by players, in locker rooms.
But it wasn't... completely erased.
Like, those same stereotypical tropes
are still there.
[tense music playing]
[Sterger] I was at a game,
and someone walked up to me,
and they said,
"What would you say if I told you
Brett Favre wanted your phone number?"
And I said... [scoffs]
"I think I like my job,
and I look a lot like his wife."
Went home,
happened to log into my Myspace.
[notification trills]
There were two messages from someone
that I didn't recognize the name.
And one of them was basically saying,
"Hey, I'm new to the team."
"This is what I look like.
I don't wanna give away too much."
"Very interested in you.
Got your name from the front office."
[notification trills]
The second message was,
"Well, since you didn't
give me your number,
so-and-so's gonna come ask you for it."
I genuinely thought I was being punked
by male coworkers,
because that's something
that happened all the time.
And then I started getting text messages.
[tense music intensifies]
- [notification trills]
- [music fades]
The person was trying
to get me to meet them.
Offered to send me a car.
And I just kept saying no.
I just was trying to figure out
who this was.
[tense music resumes]
The voicemails
are definitely
when I was like,
"Oh, I'm in serious trouble here."
[dramatic sting]
Unless somebody knew how to do
a really good Brett Favre impression.
[music fades]
[Favre on recording]
Just got done with practice.
I'm going back to the hotel
to just... to just chill.
Would love to have you come over tonight.
Um...
All right. Later.
You can tell I told him no.
[tense music resumes]
Well, I asked her. I said, "Well,
how the hell did he get your number?"
She said, "An employee gave it to him."
And I was like, "An employee
gave your number to Brett Favre?"
"Isn't that ill*gal?"
She felt genuinely uncomfortable, threatened.
And just... uncomfortable is enough for me.
There's no reason
you should feel uncomfortable.
[Sterger] He was a god, you know.
He was very protected.
And I was a 25-year-old
independent contractor.
I could just see it
just slowly wearing on her.
When we were, like...
Behind the scenes, you could just see
that she wasn't as excited to be involved,
you know, by game seven or by game eight,
you know, as she was the first game.
And, uh, I mean, how could you blame her?
[Sterger] I was watching playoff baseball,
and I remember my phone going off.
[somber music plays]
Then I opened up the picture.
[phone chimes]
The picture came through.
And the TMail address
that it came with was "bfavre."
[Andre] I couldn't believe it
when she told me.
She still just,
you know, held her head high,
went to work every day.
You could tell she was doing her best
to not show it, but it was getting to her.
Like, I could see it, and I felt horrible
'cause I felt... I felt helpless.
We would be in the tunnel,
and he's looking at her,
like, making eye contact,
like, hand gestures,
trying to talk to her.
And I'm like, "This guy's about to go
play an NFL game. Oh my God."
[Sterger] Tim was the one that would
walk me to and from the security office
that I would go and sit in
in between when I was working,
just because I didn't wanna be
out on the field.
Anyone else I told
just kind of shrugged me off.
They were just like, "We'll look into it."
[Andre] I remember her speaking about
just that, "No one's listening to me."
"No one cares."
I mean, you have someone who...
working for your company,
who feels
that another employee of your company
is stalking and harassing them.
To not even take it serious,
to just even hear her out,
to me is... that's scary.
[music fades out]
At the end of that year,
my contract was not renewed.
Shocker.
And I kinda went into hiding.
[melancholy music plays]
[Sterger] I just wanted
to put the whole experience behind me.
It was too humiliating to talk to people
about what happened to me.
So when Brett retired again
and left New York,
I prayed that was the end of it.
[Favre] Really, the hardest part
is the finality of it.
I wish I could've played better
down the stretch. I didn't.
It's time to leave.
[interviewer] Can you say
without equivocation
that there is absolutely no way
you will ever play another NFL game?
I can say that. There's no way.
In sports, quarterback Brett Favre
is coming back to the NFL,
announcing a deal
to play for the Minnesota Vikings.
The 39-year-old quarterback
decided not to retire
for the second year in a row.
[Andre] Brett Favre going to the Vikings,
that was, I thought, a slap in the face
to the Packers and their fans.
[reporter] The rivalry between
the Minnesota Vikings
and the Green Bay Packers is a strong one,
and you don't have to look very far
to see why.
My sister married a Packer fan.
It doesn't mean I don't love her.
Today, I don't like her very much.
It's like a knife in your back.
It's hard to take, you know?
If any other team... We were fine
with the Jets, but not the Vikings.
[fan] Brett has been dead to us
since the day he signed with the Vikings.
[reporter] He's like
the cheating boyfriend, huh?
Kind of. I have three Favre jerseys
at home I will probably never wear again.
This is what I think of you.
It felt good to see some people, at least,
kinda understand who this guy is.
I left New York briefly
that spring in 2009
just to come out to LA and kinda regroup,
and I wrote, like, an article
about the Jets for Deadspin.
So for some clarity, we go
to editor-in-chief of Deadspin himself,
A.J. Daulerio.
[quirky music playing]
Deadspin was just this rogue sports site.
You know what I mean?
Like, they called it journalism,
but it wasn't journalism.
They had this weird balance
that they had to do
to get clicks at the time.
For every well-done article that had,
like, actual sports information in it,
they had to have pictures
of girls in bikinis.
In 2010, A.J. and I grew this rapport
that was completely online.
I never met A.J. Daulerio in person
until 2018.
And we were just talking like
two coworkers would talk to each other,
completely off the record.
And there was a story that was in the news
where a woman had received d*ck pictures
and... or was being harassed by an athlete,
and I was like,
"Ugh, doesn't even come close to the story
that I went through
when I worked at the Jets."
He got excited,
and I realized I had overshared.
And I was like, "Yeah, but, you know,
this was an off-the-record conversation."
He hit me up, and he was like,
"I'm gonna run your story anyway."
[notification chimes]
[sinister music playing]
[reporter 1] ...question is to Brett.
Brett, there's a, uh...
Internet report today
that accuses you of sending
some inappropriate text messages
to a female employee of the Jets
during your year there.
Care to respond to those allegations?
Yeah, you know, I mean, no.
I mean, I'm not getting into that.
I'm... We're...
I got my hands full with the Jets
and... and... and trying to...
um... get some timing down
with our guys, which...
So, I mean, that's all I'm gonna discuss.
[reporters clamor]
Quarterback with spunk
rudely flashes junk.
All signs point to yuck
if Deadspin.com is to be believed.
This morning, a future Hall of Famer
is caught in the middle
of an NFL sex scandal.
Did the married quarterback
make unwanted advances
toward women when he played for the Jets?
Favre had sent
what I'll euphemistically call racy texts
and X-rated photos of himself
to an in-house sideline reporter
named Jenn Sterger,
who, by the way,
has appeared in Playboy and Maxim.
It's kind of ironic that the site
that was so paramount in creating me
would ultimately be the site
that destroyed my life.
"Someone explain to me
Jenn Sterger's endgame."
"Not a fan of him, but if Favre
actually did something reprehensible,
why didn't she deal with it
three years ago?"
[reporter 2] What about the timing? 2008.
It took her two years
to come forward with these allegations.
[Andre] The Deadspin article,
I'm reading it, and I'm like,
"Why would this be coming out now?"
"This is... This isn't right.
Like, there's no way she..."
And then once I found out it was leaked,
I couldn't believe it.
Could not believe it.
[presenter] Joining us from Philadelphia
is the editor of Deadspin, A.J. Daulerio.
When you got these texts and the pictures,
allegedly from Favre to Jenn Sterger,
did you pay for that material?
Yes, I did.
[presenter] She said she didn't want
her name attached to this.
You did attach her name to it,
and you published some private
email correspondence between you and her.
Why? Was that unfair to her?
Well, look, I said to a couple people,
"At the end of this, if there are
two scumbags out of this situation,
it's myself and Brett Favre."
Somebody else who provided this to you.
We paid a third party, yes.
[Sterger] All my emails
were hacked at one point.
Still, to this day, don't know who did it.
It can go both ways.
If she knows that he has a wife,
but then he's doing it anyway,
it's really... both... both are wrong.
Why are we shocked a football player
wanted to sleep with you?
You were selling sex. He bought it.
So here's the craziest part
about the whole scandal...
is that I've never met Brett Favre.
I've never met him.
We've never been in the same room.
We've never shaken hands.
We had no kind of relationship,
no rapport, nothing.
We've just seen these things
play out too many times.
We know
that when it comes to superstar athlete
being accused of inappropriate behavior
with a woman,
the woman's gonna get the brunt of it.
Nobody's questioning why a married man
would be sending these kind of photos
to a woman he doesn't know.
This woman who wanted no part of this,
who was only trying to do her job,
only trying to make
a career path for herself,
that she has to be subjugated to that
is telling.
I think when he was in New York,
it sounds like he made some bad decisions.
But still gotta respect the guy.
He's a hell of a football player.
He's 41 years old,
playing at a high level.
I don't really care, as long
as he's performing on a football field.
Uh... I think anybody who knows Favre,
you know, basically has it in their mind,
"Say it ain't so."
I just thought it was not only a bad look
but just a bad thing to do.
[wistful music playing]
[Hill] People always think
that women who reveal that
something heinous has happened to them
are inappropriate,
that they're getting something out of it.
There's nothing to get out of it,
more often than not.
But that's gotta be something.
Here's the... He's the big star. He's it.
It wasn't flattering,
if that's what you're implying.
- [presenter] No?
- No.
It just shows you that...
not just the insensitivity
but the misogyny.
I was never treated like a person.
I think one of the reasons why...
it's so hard for people
to have any empathy for me
on the Internet
is because I'm just a picture to them.
And he was Brett Favre.
[music fades]
[somber music playing]
[Andre] I mean, it's disgusting.
It was disgusting then.
It's disgusting now.
I grew up watching this guy with my dad,
like, "Man, this guy's amazing."
"What an... what an awesome person."
Um... and then you really find out
who people are.
[interviewer] These allegations
against your husband,
he will only say that, as a league matter,
he will not deny the allegations.
There's just so many people who just
wanna know how you're handling this.
Um... I'm handling this through faith.
[Tomlinson] I was at every
home and road game for five years,
and anybody here
who was covering the team,
who was paying attention,
wasn't surprised.
People like to pretend they were.
They weren't.
You know, good to see
he finally got called out on it
'cause he definitely was not gonna
get called out on it when he was here.
[presenter] The issue
may go beyond Sterger.
The New York Post reports
Favre had similar contact
with two women
hired by the Jets to give massages.
[Behar] "Brett here. You and Crissy
wanna get together? I'm all alone."
And, "Kinda lonely tonight.
I guess I have bad intentions."
[Cooper] Now, according to reports,
Christina Scavo and Shannon O'Toole
claimed they were fired
when they complained.
[Andre] More than one story,
you would think it would be taken serious,
but with numerous stories
that are all kind of the same thing,
pointing at the same guy,
doing the same stuff,
it's... it's just crazy that you're not
taking it serious at that point.
[cheering]
[commentator] Favre throws.
Touchdown, Sydney Rice!
Jets hierarchy is looking the other way
in this case.
It seems to be like,
"Oh, these are just boys will be boys."
[reporter] Now is not the time,
if you're the NFL,
to truly discipline Brett Favre
just because, in retirement,
he will go out and speak to many sponsors
and represent the game of football.
[Cooper] The league said
it could not conclude
that Favre had violated
NFL policy on conduct.
Instead, they fined him for not being
candid during parts of the probe.
It was really hard working in sports
while also being
a sports story.
What's up, guys? Time to shake and bang.
Coming up today on The Daily Line,
we talk hockey with Sam Bradford...
[Sterger] My show got canceled
at the end of October.
We lasted
It's a shame, but her career is over,
because after this, involving this person...
nobody's gonna wanna touch her.
It should've been the other way around,
but it's not gonna be disqualifying
for him.
It's gonna be disqualifying for her.
[Sterger] My life was ruined,
and he went to the Hall of Fame.
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
as we celebrate the unveiling
of his retired number,
at quarterback from Southern Mississippi,
number four,
Brett Favre!
[cheering and applause]
[reporter] Favre volunteered to be
the offensive coordinator for Oak Grove.
Now that he has been
with the team for two years,
he says he has enjoyed
the transition from player to coach.
I think some people thought of him
as sort of like the embodiment
of quintessential Mississippian
star quarterback came home.
[scattered applause]
[Williams] For people from here,
he was sort of like a proud export,
you know?
"We might not have much,
but we have Favre."
[dreamy music playing]
[King] There is a hero worship
in the South.
When you make it big as a football player,
they're gonna be huge
for the rest of their lives,
and that certainly
is the case of Favre in Mississippi.
[Vick] Being a NFL quarterback,
it gives us accessibility,
you know, to a lot of people.
Sometimes all you gotta do
is walk in a room,
and every person wants your number.
Every person wants to bring you
to their barbecue
or bring you out to play a round of golf
and hang out with you.
You wanna get to know people
in your town and politicians
and people who can make decisions
and help you bring something
to the community.
We earn that right
when we step on the field
and sacrificed a lot,
and people admire that.
Brett Favre, post-career,
once he retired, you know,
he picked up those Wrangler commercials
for a while longer.
You saw him in a lot of places.
He was on ESPN Radio in Wisconsin.
He was on Sirius XM.
He had a regular spot there.
He was doing a lot of things post-career
that was very, you know,
profitable for him.
[Favre] Life in the NFL was tough
on my body.
That's why for knee and elbow support,
I choose CopperFit.
At the same time,
he was going into these businesses,
you know, as a spokesperson.
He has invested in Prevacus
to help find a cure.
Joining me now, NFL Hall of Famer
and former Green Bay Packers quarterback,
Brett Favre joins me.
He started talking about concussions
pretty much right after he retired.
So it's a topic he really cares about.
[Favre] This is for treatment
immediately when a concussion
or you think a concussion has occurred.
He then became the largest
individual shareholder at Prevacus.
And from there,
he got involved in the community.
Up to this point, I think we've raised
and dispersed over $8 million,
so we're very proud of that.
And that dovetailed
into the USM volleyball court.
[Favre] One thing I can brag about
with our facilities,
as far as the niceness and the amenities,
it may not seat as many as some,
but it's the best in the country.
And Brett and his wife, Deanna,
have played a big role
in helping us get those facilities.
Tonight, a new development
in the largest welfare scandal
in Mississippi history.
CBS News has exclusively
obtained text messages and documents
that connect the plan to divert
millions of dollars in welfare funds
to pet projects
of Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre.
[man] For Brett Favre,
the Mississippi welfare scandal
begins at Southern Miss.
His daughter was playing volleyball
on the team at the time in 2017
when we see in the text
that he started, you know, seeking funding
for the volleyball stadium.
He never says "welfare dollars,"
but he's talking to the governor.
He goes to John Davis,
the welfare director,
and he's talking to Nancy New,
who controls millions in welfare dollars.
It's written
that it's for a wellness center
that will help, you know,
disadvantaged kids locally,
but, really, it just builds
a volleyball stadium.
[Perez] The volleyball stadium was built
for his daughter Breleigh.
I mean,
there's no other way to explain it.
There's no other connection
that Favre has to USM volleyball.
Obviously, football, he does,
but he knows a lot of the same boosters,
including Nancy New,
and this is kind of how he was able
to get these funds.
Um... even though he denies knowing
they're federal welfare funds,
Nancy New knew.
And very quickly,
Brett, Nancy, and John realized
that to fully fund the volleyball stadium
with welfare dollars,
they're gonna have to work
around the parameters
of how these funds can be spent.
[Pittman] About $8 million
go to projects Brett Favre wanted,
including 1.1 million
that goes to Favre directly.
Well, there is new information
regarding Brett Favre
and his alleged role in
the state's largest ever welfare scandal.
[Smith] There are text messages
with Brett Favre saying,
"Will anybody find out about it?"
Well, excuse me. Find out about what?
When I found out, especially,
that one of the reasons he had been caught
was through text messages,
I was just like,
"Wow, we've learned absolutely nothing."
[reporter] "If you were to pay me,
is there any way
the media can find out
where it came from and how much?"
New replied, "No,"
but added, "I understand
you being uneasy about that."
Yeah, me too.
[Perez] Unfortunately,
the volleyball stadium is only one piece
of Brett's involvement
in the Mississippi welfare scandal.
Since Brett now knew Nancy and John could
help him get large amounts of funding,
he asked for more.
About two million went to Prevacus.
You provide this applicator
that has the drug in it,
and it's a mouth-to-nose propulsion.
They needed Mississippi
because they were out of money.
And so, even though
this concussion drug company
has nothing to do with Mississippi
or could benefit the poor in any way,
he goes back to John Davis and Nancy New.
Four years later,
the millions in taxpayer dollars are gone.
There's still no evidence
the drug works in humans,
and it's nowhere close
to getting approval.
[Michaels] My first thought,
my gut reaction was,
"Brett, what'd you do?
What'd you get yourself into?"
But when you start to hear
that there's text messages that say,
"I'm not gonna get in trouble for this?"
or you say, "Where's this coming from?"
just the inherent evil of the question
saying, "I'm not gonna
get in trouble for this?"
you kind of think, "Well,
why'd you ask the question to begin with?"
[soft jazz music playing]
[man] The congressional intent
of the TANF money
is to get people off the bottom.
In a state that need
all the help it can get,
you take money intended
for the poorest of the poorest,
and we build a volleyball stadium.
Most people in this state
didn't even know those things existed.
[Williams] When we even talk
about TANF cash assistance,
the amount families get is very low,
and the income eligibility
they have to meet is very low.
If we looked at a family of three
in Mississippi,
single mom and two kids,
she's gonna be eligible
for $260 a month of TANF cash assistance.
As someone who has studied
this program for a long time,
when the story about Favre came out
and I read that he received
one contract for $1.1 million,
it's a total punch in the gut.
[Sharpe] You gotta be pretty low
that you would take
from the most underserved
to fill your need.
They're quick to talk about,
"Oh, Black and brown people be stealing,
and we need to cut out
some of this pork and all this..." Stop it.
Yep.
The biggest criminals,
them people that steal the most,
look like that.
[Favre] That's not me.
I mean, I would certainly
never do anything like that.
I, in no way, did anything wrong
and wouldn't do anything wrong.
[Thompson] Brett Favre,
with his name, ID, reputation,
could have done a lot of good
for a state like Mississippi,
but he didn't.
He took advantage of the people
who were on that path and struggling.
[Hill] Only thing he cared about,
"Is Brett Favre the deity
still going to be preserved?"
"Are people still going to think
I'm a great guy
and a hell of a quarterback?"
That, to me, shows a callousness,
a disregard, an inhumanity
that is in him,
and he didn't give a sh*t
about who else he hurt.
[man] He's gonna say that he didn't know
where the money was coming from.
Yep, his lawyers said,
"Brett has been nothing but upstanding
in this whole f*cking situation."
Brett Favre sounds like he's f*cked,
uh... gonna have to pay back
a bunch of money,
and he took from the welfare fund.
[Thompson] I doubt
if you'll get many elected officials
to talk about Brett Favre
'cause there's still a lot of intimidation
attached to who he is
and who identifies with him.
[tense music playing]
[King] People don't want
most of that stuff to come out.
Most people are happy to just... go along.
"We're not gonna change this."
"Just..." You know,
"Just let it... let it go. Let it go."
Because people want to have their heroes.
[men laughing]
[Perez] He has an image of being
an all-American, good-old-boy gunslinger.
But, uh... through his life
and even in this whole welfare scandal,
there are people covering for him.
[anchor] Favre hired ex-Trump
White House attorney Eric Herschmann
to represent him.
You want the outside quarterback
to look out and say,
"Wait, let me challenge the entire state
as to what they do with their funds?"
They push back hard.
They send letters to reporters.
They threaten, you know, lawsuits.
I faced that with my reporting
on a pain cream scandal
he was involved in years ago.
[man 1 on recording] What is the relevance
of something from seven years ago?
Other than to imply
that Brett is some sort of criminal.
[man 2] Look, you're just a sh*t writer!
[man 1] It was inaccurate then.
It's inaccurate now.
A.J., I have never wished
for media layoffs more than ever,
and there's a recession coming,
so I hope you've saved up some money.
You go ahead and publish this.
You're going to get sued.
Yeah, that was a reminder
that, you know, this is what you face
for going after, um... the truth.
[reporter] "I have been unjustly smeared
in the media."
"I have done nothing wrong,
and it is past time
to set the record straight."
"No one ever told me, and I did not know
that funds designated
for welfare recipients
were going to the university or me."
Don't point the finger
at the media for reporting stuff
that's in the court papers,
for crying out loud.
[man] Favre, for a period of time,
was the single most famous
football player in the world.
So does it feel like
he's getting protected?
Does it feel like there's assuredly
a bit of a racial component to it?
Yes, all of those things are true.
[Thompson] If you are perceived
as a superstar
and you're white,
in many instances, you get a pass.
Brett Favre, um...
is getting a pass.
[Vick] People go to jail
for stealing money every day.
If it's that important,
the right institutions can get involved.
But, you know, some people
are untouchable in certain ways,
and that's just the way it is.
I just think
that's kinda how the system is rigged.
You know, some... some situations
have to be played out in court.
Some have to be played out in the public.
It seems to me
that what we are talking about
is the possibility of people
who've been put on pedestals
and godded up
for such a long period of time
that they lose touch with everyday rules,
and they think their privilege extends
beyond what other people think it is.
[Favre] The challenges my family
and I have faced over the last three years
because certain government officials
in Mississippi
failed to protect federal TANF funds
from fraud and abuse
and are unjust... justifiably
trying to blame me,
those challenges have hurt my good name
and are worse than anything
I faced in football.
And I'm sure you'll understand
why it's too late for me
because I've recently
been diagnosed with Parkinson's.
[intriguing music plays]
The people that get left in the wake
are the victims.
Whether it's me,
whether it's, you know, people
in Green Bay that we don't know about,
whether it's the people of Mississippi,
we get left in the wake
because we were never the story.
We're here to service
somebody else's story.
[woman] Have you repaid interest
on the millions of dollars
that were misallocated?
No, I have not.
[Hill] There is no justice here.
There's only this level of incompleteness
that has happened
because of who we're talking about.
[Michaels] The bottom line is,
if he came back to Green Bay today
with everything hanging over his head
and everything he's ever done,
they would still go bananas
just because he walked in the room
because, you know,
there's those two words, Brett Favre.
Whatever he was getting
for his endorsements has dried up.
In the end, that could be
the one consequence he has from this.
It's costing him a lot of money.
But, I mean...
[intriguing music intensifies]
...it probably should.
[King] In our world today,
winners get to write the history,
and Favre was a great football player
who showed some feet of clay.
Mr. Favre, as former quarterbacks,
you and I, we have so much in common.
[Favre chuckles]
[Moore] Uh... but on a serious note,
obviously,
you're everybody's favorite Packer.
And I think people who love sports,
who love football,
they cannot like a person...
[man] Committee stands adjourned.
[King] ...but they can love an athlete,
even though the person
is not very likable.
[tense music building]
[Sterger] There are people
that are going to remember this,
but there are just as many people,
some that are even
gonna watch this documentary,
that are still gonna deny
because they just don't wanna hear
that their hero
is not the person they think he is.
[dramatic final chords play]
[uneasy music playing]
[mellow, jangly country guitar playing]
- [dramatic drumbeats pound]
- [synth strings droning]
[woman] ♪ Where there's smoke
There's fire ♪
♪ Burn, baby, baby, burn ♪
♪ Baby, burn ♪
♪ Burn ♪
[music becomes intense]
- ♪ Oh lord ♪
- [music becomes calmer]
♪ I guess that's the way the story goes ♪
[jangly guitar chords playing]
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