Jenn Sterger relives Brett Favre nightmare amid $5 million welfare scandal
Former Jets host Jennifer Sterger had a comical response to Brett Favre’s latest alleged text message scandal.
“Oh.. NOWWWWW he gets in trouble for inappropriate texts,” Sterger tweeted, Tuesday, the same day the former NFL quarterback made headlines over an alleged money scandal with former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant.
An investigative report by Mississippi Today revealed text messages showing that Bryant helped Favre obtain at least $5 million in welfare funds in order to help build a new volleyball center at the University of Southern Mississippi. Favre played football at Southern Miss, and his daughter was a volleyball player there at the time some of the texts were sent.
Sterger went off about the news in a series of tweets on Tuesday. The former NFL host accused Favre of sending her inappropriate photos in 2010 when he was the Jets quarterback.
“If you shared this tweet, I politely request you read the last one I posted. And never call me ‘the Brett Favre Girl’ again,” Sterger wrote in a separate tweet.
Sterger has since pursued a media career, which includes previous work at Sports Illustrated and ABC. She is also a comedian, an actress and a writer, according to her Twitter bio.
In other lengthy tweets, Sterger discussed how the scandal affected her reputation and career journey. She said she was “wrongfully cancelled,” an internet trend she doesn’t believe in.
“Days like today are always tough,” Sterger tweeted. “I want to act like my life isn’t still drastically impacted by another person’s treatment of me, but that would be a lie. To think my legacy and everything anyone knows of me.. can be summed down to the title of ‘The Brett Favre Girl,’ is not only disgusting. But disheartening
“And every time sports has a #MeToo moment, I’m always somehow the Go-To expert,” Sterger said. “But what we haven’t addressed is this weird hero culture we have created around pro athletes that somehow grants them immunity to consequences…”
Sterger went on to share that she has been in therapy for years since the Favre scandal.
“I believe in redemption when people have: expressed remorse. Have done the work. And have taken that work out into the world to show you they learned something from it. Brett Favre has done none of that,” Sterger tweeted.
“I’m roadkill in his rear view.. And you all are just now discovering that awful people do awful things when there are no consequences. Welcome to the real world,” Sterger wrote in a separate tweet.
