Brett Favre Biographer Jeff Pearlman Burns His Jersey After Calling Favre Out Over Welfare Scandal

Brett Favre is getting crushed in the media, and by the media.

Jeff Pearlman, who was the writer who published a biography of Brett Favre, had some choice words for the hall of fame QB as he told fans not to read his book on Favre. His comments come in the wake of text messages between Favre and disgraced Mississippi nonprofit executive Nancy New. The text messages from 2017 imply that Favre was aware funds were being improperly routed to him as he wanted to fund a volleyball facility at his alma mater of Southern Miss, where his daughter played volleyball.

Pearlman called Favre’s actions “monstrous” and included a graphic of a Favre jersey burning in a trashcan .

“On the day of extended Favre revelations, I wanna share something: I wrote a biography of the man that was largely glowing,” Pearlman wrote on Twitter. “Football heroics, overcoming obstacles, practical joker, etc. Yes, it included his grossness, addictions, treatment of women. But it was fairly positive. And, looking at it now, if I’m being brutally honest — I’d advise people not to read it. He’s a bad guy. He doesn’t deserve the icon treatment. He doesn’t deserve acclaim. Image rehabilitation. Warm stories of grid glory. His treatment of @jennifersterger was … inexcusable.

“And now—taking money that was designated to help poor people in HIS STATE, and funneling it to build (checks notes) A [expletive] VOLLEYBALL ARENA (!?!?!?) is so grotesque, so monstrous. I don’t know how someone like that looks in the mirror. I just don’t. So, sincerely, don’t buy the book, don’t take it out from the library. Leave it. There are sooooo many better people worthy of your reading hours. Of your time. I prefer crumbs like Brett Favre shuffle off into the abyss, shamed by greed and selfishness.”

So, sincerely, don't buy the book, don't take it out from the library. Leave it. There are sooooo many better people worthy of your reading hours. Of your time. I prefer crumbs like Brett Favre shuffle off into the abyss, shamed by greed and selfishness. # pic.twitter.com/2hpBcTXlEM

— Jeff Pearlman (@jeffpearlman) September 13, 2022

And now—taking money that was designated to help poor people in HIS STATE, and funneling it to build (checks notes) A FUCKING VOLLEYBALL ARENA (!?!?!?) is so grotesque, so monstrous. I don't know how someone like that looks in the mirror. I just don't. [3] pic.twitter.com/8JhOJyFAJF

— Jeff Pearlman (@jeffpearlman) September 13, 2022

If anyone knows if Favre is truly a bad guy,  it has to be his biographer, no?

Obviously they have some sort of history, which may further explain why he’s torching his jersey.

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