AdvertisementText messages show Brett Favre sought welfare money for a football facilitySeptember 26, 2022The Associated PressfacebookEmailFormer NFL quarterback Brett Favre is pictured in 2018. The governor of Mississippi in 2017 was "on board" with a plan for a nonprofit group to pay Brett Favre more than $1 million in welfare grant money so the retired NFL quarterback could help fund a university volleyball facility, according to text messages. (AP)