WWE color commentator Pat McAfee is facing a lawsuit alongside Shannon Sharpe from legendary Green Bay Packers QB Brett Favre for defamatory remarks they made against him regarding the Mississippi welfare case fraud.
Favre also sued Mississippi Auditor Shad White for defamatory allegations made about the case.
The lawsuit stated McAfee called Favre a “thief” who was “stealing from poor people in Mississippi.” The former QB repaid the $1.1 million he got but not the $228,000 interest that was asked for. He claimed that he was not aware of the source of the funds that he got. Once Favre paid back the money, White asked for another $5 million because Favre got $5 million from the welfare fund to pay for a volleyball arena at the University of Southern Mississippi, the alma mater of Favre.
While speaking on his radio show today, McAfee addressed the lawsuit.
“I’m getting sued by Brett Farve. Yup, we made it, boys,” McAfee started out.
McAfee then made a toast with his crew before continuing. “I’m getting sued alongside Shannon Sharpe and an auditor by Missipi by Brett f**king Favre. Brett Favre is suing me in a defamation lawsuit, saying I defamed his name to try to earn a profit. With this, I believe, comes discovery and depositions and all these other things.”
“So I would like to let the New York lawyers who wrote me two letters before this thing got announced,” McAfee stated before noting what they said in the letter, which was them wanting him to remove any and all mention of Favre from the archives of his radio show, Twitter and YouTube library. He called it a warning shot.
“So I looked at that and said, ‘That’s hilarious.’ Of course, we’re not doing that. Put that down, move on with my life.”
He was informed a few days later that he had until this past Wednesday night at 8:30 PM Eastern to issue a public apology to Favre and remove all the content that includes Farve’s name. He said he got caught in a game of pickleball, and that time came and went, and now he’s getting sued.
“I would like to let everyone know the quotes that were in that lawsuit were certainly accurate, but there’s one word that I believe that was said often on this program, which was allegedly. Our job is to report the news. At the time, it was allegedly going on down in Mississippi with Brett Farve, the man suing me for money.”
McAfee added, “We had to cover that situation, and we certainly said allegedly and a lot of people were wondering how my lawyers were going to handle this, you know it, I ain’t got em, so let’s ride this f**ker. I’m excited. I’ll see you in court, pal.”
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