Brett Favre Netflix documentary shows a star drowning in scandal – USA Today

From Jenn Sterger saga to ugly welfare scandal, Brett Favre was a star drowning in scandalNetflix’s ‘Untold: The Fall of Favre’ dissects the star quarterback’s journey from Super Bowl champion to disgraced NFL legend.Scooby Axson
 
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Former NFL MVP Brett Favre reveals Parkinson’s diagnosis to CongressDuring a testimony about the misuse of welfare money to Congress, former NFL quarterback Brett Favre revealed he has Parkinson’s disease.Netflix is back at it again with another foray into its sports documentary series, and the latest one focuses on Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre.Untold: The Fall of Favre premiered Tuesday on the streaming service and serves its purpose. It is full of information, filled with good storytelling from the talking heads who appeared in the film, mostly from sportswriters, who covered him for his 20 NFL seasons.The very definition of the word “untold” is inappropriate here, as those casual sports fans who don’t live and die by every game, or have a rooting interest in an athlete, certainly have heard about portions of Favre’s career on and off the field.In other words, there isn’t much of anything new or earthshattering here, and because it was no shock that Favre is a non-participant in the documentary, you won’t see anything that resembles contrition for Favre’s well-documented misdeeds, either.One of the more interesting parts of the latest “Untold” from Netflix is that the documentary is only one hour long, which is surprising given the complexity of the subject featured.In efforts to tell a balanced story, Favre’s career is the focus of the first 12 minutes of the film, and then Jenn Sterger makes an appearance to tell her story about Favre sending her unsolicited pictures of his private parts when they were both employed by the New York Jets.”Brett Favre ultimately destroyed my life,” said Sterger, who was a Jets in-stadium game-day host. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them.”To this day, according to Sterger, she has yet to meet Favre, who the NFL fined $50,000 for not cooperating with their investigation.So, who exactly is Brett Favre? If you are watching this film looking for an answer to that question, you won’t find it here.Favre apologists will undoubtedly look at the film as a glorified hit piece, and indeed, the last portion of the fil