Name: Does CTE Play a Role in the Brett Favre Scandal?
Uploaded: 2022-09-30T17:33:11.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Does CTE Play a Role in the Brett Favre Scandal?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-09-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Does CTE Play a Role in the Brett Favre Scandal?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-09-30. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Brett Favre is in deep shit.
- Yeah, what did he do?
Just like a welfare fraud thing?
- Yeah, he was friends with the governor of,
I don't know which governor it was.
What's that?
- Mississippi.
- Yeah, yeah, Mississippi.
'Cause he went to Southern Mississippi University
or some college and his daughter's going there
and she's a volleyball player and they needed a new gym
or like a stadium for volleyball games.
And so he talked to the governor
and they arranged to siphon money out of a fund
that was like a welfare fund meant to feed poor people.
And they took like $6 million out of it
and built a stadium and there's a whole text chain
just, I mean, plain as day.
He even says at one point like,
is there any chance we're gonna get caught for doing this?
- Oh boy.
- And the governor's like, nah, don't worry about it.
We're good.
- Oh no.
- Yeah.
And I mean, you think about a guy like that,
what is he making, $20 million a year?
If you want to buy it,
if you want a fucking volleyball stadium for your kid,
you got that money.
You got it.
- That's so crazy.
- Yeah.
And he had a legacy.
- That's like a jailable offense, isn't it?
I mean, is that one of those,
I mean, that seems like one of those ones
that wouldn't just be a fine.
- That seems like it.
- If you're stealing from welfare?
- Yeah.
- Like that's the kind of stuff people go away for, right?
- Well, especially 'cause one of the millions of dollars
went directly to him.
- Oh!
- Yeah.
So it's like some of it went to the school
and one of the millions went directly to him.
- And he's already so wealthy.
- Yeah.
- Imagine how much money he would pay
to not have that happen.
- Hmm.
- You know?
- He'd pay half his money.
- Yeah, if like this scandal was about to go down right now
and people found out like,
well, how much would you pay to not have that happen?
- Yeah.
- Definitely more than a million.
- Oh yeah.
- He'd probably give you like two million.
Shut the fuck up.
- Well, he's probably worth 30 or 40 million.
He'd probably give you half of that
to not tarnish the reputation.
- And not only that, but might wind up in jail.
- Yeah.
- You know though, there's a problem
that needs to be addressed
whenever it comes to football players,
fighters, combat sports athletes,
is that people with CTE oftentimes
have very poor decision making.
It's very complex 'cause everybody's version
and severity of CTE is different.
But one of the side effects
of having too many concussions
is you become very impulsive
and you start doing risky things,
risky behaviors.
Sometimes people get addicted to substances
and gambling and a lot of wild shit.
And it comes from like your brain being rattled.
Like it's just not working right.
Like you have all sorts of impulse control.
- Makes sense.
- So I think risky things like this
might've been exciting.
You know, like you should've obviously morally known
that's not the thing to do.
But there's something I think for guys
that have been hitting the head too many times,
like risky things like, oh, they would just want.
- Yeah.
- If you're a guy and you've got all your jollies
out of playing football,
I mean, you got all your jollies
out of being this bad-ass fucking quarterback
or some bad-ass running back.
And the amount of excitement on Superbowl day
must be unfathomable to us mere mortals.
- Yeah.
- To us mere mortals,
the excitement of being on that field
and knowing that millions of people
are going to be watching around the world, millions.
And there's 50, 60,000 people in that place
screaming their fucking heads off.
And you're playing football
at the highest level of the world.
- Mm-hmm.
- Fuck, man.
You want a guy like that to just go back to normal life
after he's been hit in the head 50 times?
- Hey, I got my own mower now.
- Yeah, Jesus Christ.
That guy is going to start gambling and going to whorehouses
and starting coke and punching traffic attendants.
Look, he's fucking bored out of his mind.
- Look at Lenny Dykstra, man, shit.
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
- Fuck.
- How about fighters, man?
- I mean, think about how excited you are
to go to a Superbowl.
Think about the excitement level that person has,
and now you're the guy in the center of it.
And you got the possibility, if you win,
of making an extra million in your bonus or whatever else.
There's so many factors going into that.