Brett Favre, Legendary Quarterback and Awful Person, Diagnosed with Parkinson’s

Brett Favre, 1 of the top quarterbacks successful National Football League History, testified successful beforehand of Congress connected Tuesday that helium has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.

The Hall of Fame signal-caller made this assertion portion seated earlier the House Ways and Means Committee for a proceeding astir Prevacus… a institution making a concussion cause that received $2 cardinal of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds.

Favre was the apical capitalist successful Prevacus — and substance messages amusement helium started asking authorities officials for assistance successful securing funds for the institution successful November 2018.

Brett Favre of the Green Bay Packers during the archetypal circular playoff crippled against the Minnesota Vikings astatine Lambeau Field successful Green Bay, Wisconsin connected January 9, 2004. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

“Sadly, I besides mislaid an concern successful a institution that I believed was processing a breakthrough concussion cause I thought would assistance others,” Favre said successful his opening comments.

“And I’m definite you’ll recognize wherefore it’s excessively precocious for me, due to the fact that I’ve precocious been diagnosed with Parkinson’s. This is besides a origin beloved to my heart.”

Favre has been accused of improperly utilizing governmental connections to redirect nationalist wealth to his alma mater and besides into his ain slope account.

He allegedly siphoned millions of dollars for himself and toward a caller volleyball stadium the the University of Southern Mississippi, wherever his girl plays connected the volleyball team.

Brett Favre speaks during his 2016 Class Pro Football Hall of Fame induction code during the NFL Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony astatine the Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium connected August 6, 2016 successful Canton, Ohio. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

Prevacus’ founder, Jacob VanLandingham, pleaded blameworthy to ligament fraud successful July, admitting that helium utilized Mississippi payment wealth to wage disconnected gambling and different debts.

According to a 2019 Mississippi authorities audit, astatine slightest $77 cardinal successful TANF funds, earmarked for mediocre families, were diverted to the affluent and powerful. Favre among them.

For this reason, galore radical deliberation Brett Favre sucks.

Many radical besides question whether oregon not helium genuinely has Parkinson’s — and besides wonderment wherefore this is applicable to the supra allegations, adjacent if it is true.

Brett Favre attends time 3 of SiriusXM At Super Bowl LVI connected February 11, 2022 successful Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM )

Parkinson’s is simply a encephalon upset that causes unintended oregon uncontrollable movements.

Symptoms, specified arsenic shaking and trouble with equilibrium and coordination, gradually worsen implicit clip and often advancement to trouble walking and talking.

Favre, who has denied immoderate wrongdoing (he said contiguous that authorities officials are “unjustifiably trying to blasted me”), played 20 seasons successful the NFL.

A three-time MVP and a Super Bowl champion, Favre was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame successful 2016.