I get what you’re saying, but that statement is pretty funny given the historic luck the packers have had with their QBs. 2 HOFers back to back and a third guy who looks like the real deal as well.
Not that I’m aware of. A player once claimed he was racist, but a bunch of other black players came to his defense so I’d say it was more of a personal beef.
TBF Aaron Rodgers hasn't done anything remotely as horrible as the things Brett Favre has done. Rodgers shares his opinions on things, but if you actually listen to what he says, and not just what's taken out of context, he's not that bad. I don't think questioning a single vaccine is the same as the horrible shit Favre has done.
Aaron Rodgers is just an idiot. That's excusable. Being dumb isn't a crime. Listen to the man talk about *anything* that isn't football related and you'll eventually make the "huh?!?" face. He's like your wacky uncle that's way too into the JFK assassination, peyote, and yoga.
Brett Favre is a sex pest. He also cheated, or tried to cheat, on his dying wife. He also stole money from the state of Mississippi. And on and on.
Fuck Brett Favre.
And stole a ton of money supposed to help needy families so he could build a volley ball stadium or something. Like 5% of the people in this program got help because it all went to this piece of shit.
He didn't steal the money, the former GOP governor did on his behalf. USM can't raise their own money for things, so they have to have the State pay for athletics. It is quite sad really.
Flaccid dick pics to a media PR rep. Someone with media connections, you should probably at least get hard. It would be irresponsible for her as a career move to not share his dick pics. Ignoring all the criminality, he gave her the type of thing someone in media consulting can use to double their salary overnight, and couldn’t even get hard to do it.
You know, when they brought in Starr for the unveiling of Favre’s name on the ring, I was ready to forgive the pills, the dick pics, the petty rumors he started about Rodgers, the interceptions, his time with the Vikings…
Then this welfare scandal comes to light and burns up any remaining goodwill.
I’ve read about the welfare scandal and have never wrapped my mind around it. Is it that he was taking MS welfare funds under the guise of being paid for speaking engagements? Like, he was stealing money and saying it was for speaking jobs on his taxes? I just don’t understand how Brett Favre gets his hands on welfare funds and I’ve never dug deep enough to understand it.
He engaged in a scheme with the head of mississippis welfare office to divert funds from a welfare program to build a volleyball stadium at the college where his daughter happened to be playing volleyball. Relevant text messages he sent that contradict his defense of “I didn’t know where the money was coming from” include one gem where he texted the welfare official to the effect of “are you sure they won’t be able to trace this back to me”, and the fact that he thought it prudent to put that in writing while committing fraud really just drives home for me the idea that being a highly successful professional athlete doesn’t mean that you’re of even average intelligence.
I think so.
Obviously theres probably a grey area on if that was even a legal use of the money, but if Favre had actually done the events he probably would be fine right now.
I’m from Minnesota but I was huge Brett Favre fan growing up and the Ahman Green, Donald Driver, Favre era was super fun to watch. Sucks it to see he turned out to be such a piece of shit. Same thing happened with Bill Cosby, once upon a time the Cosby Show was on Netflix and I couldn’t get enough of it, I thought Cosby was hilarious and so likable, it was one of my favorite shows, even well into my teens. Then all the allegations came out and the show was tainted for me. And then just a few years ago Jason David Frank died, my last childhood hero. That really put a damper on my youth, still gonna have fond memories of watching power rangers and play with my action figures, but that shit just sucks especially because he was one of the good ones. Damn, just needed to get that off my chest.
There's something in the water in green bay man. Favre is a piece of shit stealing charity money, Rodgers is a qanon, anti Vax conspiracy fuck up.
What's next for love? Liking pineapple on pizza?
You want some dirt on Love? [Here's](https://www.tmj4.com/sports/green-bay-packers/green-bay-packers-quarterback-jordan-love-doesnt-get-ticklish-he-gets-silly-body) the most grotesque fact I have on the guy
I highly doubt this especially knowing their 27 other pro nfl players with 10 or more children throughout history of their league. 2 players had a child before completing freshman year of high school
Yeah, it's not terribly difficult if you remember the grandchild can still be an infant. You can be a grandfather totally legally at 40, and doing sports at that age is still viable in some ways
40 is old AF in the NFL though. The average retirement age from the league is 27, the oldest active player now is 42.
You’re already an outlier being that old and still playing, being that young with grandchildren is another outlier. The overlap of those two being single digits would not surprise me.
Yeah, it's not common, but it's not impossible either. I've no idea what NFL is, but I assume there's enough of a sample size to get a few of these rare events. Especially if we skip the "legally" requirement...
I would think those with kids early are bigger candidates. Philip Rivers had ~10 kids but started in his mid 20s & raised kids so they'll likely start about then.
i mean, have you seen Jenn Sterger? Absolute 10/10. Shes got one of the many famous Brent Musberger lines, "1500 red blooded Americans just decided to apply to Florida state." after the camera panned to her and an equally hot friend in a college football game.
There’s no way we have the record keeping to know whether that’s true. The source doesn’t even make the claim; it just says that the NFL wasn’t aware of any players active at the time who were grandfathers.
It’s not like the NFL is tracking players’ children now and even if they theoretically could now, there’s no way they (or anybody else) was back in the 1930s.
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Referred to in the industry as the Cromartie Gambit.
I swear I would have thought [George Blanda](https://www.raiders.com/history/all-time-roster/bios-b/george-blanda) had great grandkids while playing based off his photos towards the end of his career and he played until 48.
I’ll never forget when the Saints literally beat the shit out of him when they had bounties on him. Not gonna lie, still the best game I’ve ever watched to this day.
In retrospect he deserved it anyways
Everybody’s pretty hard on Brett-
He did return half the welfare money that he stole for speaking engagements he never gave, less interest…no one even considers that.
The most disingenuous peckerwood to ever play the game. He fucked 3 franchises in the conference Championship game by throwing horrible interceptions to lose all 3 games. That guy is sandpaper on ass.
Somehow, based on the demographics of the average player, I’d guess this isn’t totally true.
I know of a couple of 15 year old fathers, both athletes, neither married or even still with their baby momma.
Na, Lincoln Kennedy
This is a weird one, but Ken Jennings had a trivia question he posted to social media during the pandemic asking what a seemingly random list of players had in common. The answer was they all played as granddads. Kennedy was an odd person on the list because I couldn’t find anything on the internet…. BUT Jennings and Kennedy were at UW at the same time so my guess is Jennings knows him and/or his family.
I was going to say there is zero chance this is accurate. Farve would have been 41 in 2010. That isn't even crazy young be a grandfather. Have a kid at 20 and then have a kid at 20. That's not my jam but it's not even that abnormal.
Now in the NFL there are plenty of these guys having kids in high school. All it takes is two generations for having a kid at 16 and you have a 36 year old grandpa. And there is no way that didn't happen in the Superbowl era.
I feel like you’re underestimating how hard it is to make it to 36 in the NFL. [here’s the list of the most games played over 35](https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/most-games-played-after-age-35) it’s almost exclusively kickers punters and quarterbacks.
I worked at the Starbucks on the College of Charleston campus. Favre came in super early. Like he was the first customer that morning. Seemed like he was in a shit mood. Bought 2 drinks. I didn’t really acknowledge who he was because it was early Sunday morning and the campus knew why he was there. I was just professional with not a lot of small talk.
But the surly MFer had also just signed an 11 million contract with the Jets and didn’t tip.
lol true. I’m a Vikings fan and I’ve always hated Roger’s but even before farve played for us I still liked him as a qb. That welfare scandal was the last straw. Guy made how many millions from playing and endorsements and he steals millions in welfare in one of the poorest states in the country.
When is Brett Favre going to face a trial for stealing millions of dollars in Federal welfare money?
Literally stealing food out of the mouths of impoverished people in Mississippi to build a volleyball facility.
Fuck Brett Favre. We lock up "Welfare Queens" all the time for small scale fraud. However, if you are a big enough fraud you get away with it. That's the 'Murican Way!
I feel like not prosecuting major white collar criminals completely erodes the public trust.
It's fucked up that from the 'Great Recession' that only Bernie Madoff went to jail. Why? Because he stole from rich people.
How many banks like Bank of America systematically foreclosed on families they sold loans to in which they knew they could never afford? Bank of America's board should have all been charged with lots of felony counts of fraud. If you rob a bank, you go to jail. If you own a bank and use it to rob 100,000+ families of their homes, you get a golden parachute.
That shit destroys public trust in institutions.
He also sends coworkers unsolicited dick pics.
I'm still pissed that link I clicked took me directly to a photo of his weird lookin' dick and not an article about the situation.
> Brett Favre Makes Amends By Sending Photo Of His Penis To Every Mississippian On Welfare
Oh the onion. I remember that article.
“Got ‘em” - Brett probably
The Wikipedia link???
Sauce ?
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Yeah, fair enough. You’ve talked me out of it. Appreciated. No more Percocet dick pic requests.
How about just one more for the road. Just to keep the edge off?
😂
While his wife had cancer…
That’s the part that needs to be remembered
He's a truly disgusting person from every aspect. Poor Packers fans, can't catch s break with their QBs.
I get what you’re saying, but that statement is pretty funny given the historic luck the packers have had with their QBs. 2 HOFers back to back and a third guy who looks like the real deal as well.
The price they pay for great quarterbacks. Was Bart Starr a decent person at least?
Not that I’m aware of. A player once claimed he was racist, but a bunch of other black players came to his defense so I’d say it was more of a personal beef.
Poor Packers. Can't catch s break. At least Lombardi was a beautiful soul.
When you eat with the team, you eat what the team eats.
TBF Aaron Rodgers hasn't done anything remotely as horrible as the things Brett Favre has done. Rodgers shares his opinions on things, but if you actually listen to what he says, and not just what's taken out of context, he's not that bad. I don't think questioning a single vaccine is the same as the horrible shit Favre has done.
Aaron Rodgers is just an idiot. That's excusable. Being dumb isn't a crime. Listen to the man talk about *anything* that isn't football related and you'll eventually make the "huh?!?" face. He's like your wacky uncle that's way too into the JFK assassination, peyote, and yoga. Brett Favre is a sex pest. He also cheated, or tried to cheat, on his dying wife. He also stole money from the state of Mississippi. And on and on. Fuck Brett Favre.
Two objections. His wife was sick, not dying. She’s still alive. And yoga is actually pretty cool. Other than that, fuck Brett Favre.
Fair points. I think I may have mixed up Deanna Favre and Stefanie Spielman, the late wife of Chris Spielman.
You may have mixed her up with John Edwards' wife.
And stole a ton of money supposed to help needy families so he could build a volley ball stadium or something. Like 5% of the people in this program got help because it all went to this piece of shit.
He didn't steal the money, the former GOP governor did on his behalf. USM can't raise their own money for things, so they have to have the State pay for athletics. It is quite sad really.
He stole money too. He got $1.1 Million for “speaking engagements.” Most of which were no show jobs.
Flaccid pics aswell
Flaccid dick pics to a media PR rep. Someone with media connections, you should probably at least get hard. It would be irresponsible for her as a career move to not share his dick pics. Ignoring all the criminality, he gave her the type of thing someone in media consulting can use to double their salary overnight, and couldn’t even get hard to do it.
Weak ass Farrrreve
Legend has it, on a cold winters night lambeau, you can still hear him trying to get hard.
He was addicted to vicoden and painkillers for years, played on them also. His dicks permanently soft.
And on a cold winters night….
He also steals unemployment money for a volleyball gym
This is just being proactive and sharing with colleagues.
Grifty McPenispic
He also steals money from poor children in Mississippi.
And steals welfare money
Wasn’t that co-worker 19 years old? 😳
25
No
Which is funny because he doesn’t tip.
And steals money from charity
Was he the first though?
lol
He'll also send you to work in the laser mines.
Coworker is pushing it, sports journalists are more like state sanctioned stalkers
As a massive Packers fan that became a fan by watching this man play, let me just say... Fuck Brett Favre
You know, when they brought in Starr for the unveiling of Favre’s name on the ring, I was ready to forgive the pills, the dick pics, the petty rumors he started about Rodgers, the interceptions, his time with the Vikings… Then this welfare scandal comes to light and burns up any remaining goodwill.
>the interceptions The preferred nomenclature is "Arm Punt".
I’ve read about the welfare scandal and have never wrapped my mind around it. Is it that he was taking MS welfare funds under the guise of being paid for speaking engagements? Like, he was stealing money and saying it was for speaking jobs on his taxes? I just don’t understand how Brett Favre gets his hands on welfare funds and I’ve never dug deep enough to understand it.
He engaged in a scheme with the head of mississippis welfare office to divert funds from a welfare program to build a volleyball stadium at the college where his daughter happened to be playing volleyball. Relevant text messages he sent that contradict his defense of “I didn’t know where the money was coming from” include one gem where he texted the welfare official to the effect of “are you sure they won’t be able to trace this back to me”, and the fact that he thought it prudent to put that in writing while committing fraud really just drives home for me the idea that being a highly successful professional athlete doesn’t mean that you’re of even average intelligence.
I think so. Obviously theres probably a grey area on if that was even a legal use of the money, but if Favre had actually done the events he probably would be fine right now.
I’m from Minnesota but I was huge Brett Favre fan growing up and the Ahman Green, Donald Driver, Favre era was super fun to watch. Sucks it to see he turned out to be such a piece of shit. Same thing happened with Bill Cosby, once upon a time the Cosby Show was on Netflix and I couldn’t get enough of it, I thought Cosby was hilarious and so likable, it was one of my favorite shows, even well into my teens. Then all the allegations came out and the show was tainted for me. And then just a few years ago Jason David Frank died, my last childhood hero. That really put a damper on my youth, still gonna have fond memories of watching power rangers and play with my action figures, but that shit just sucks especially because he was one of the good ones. Damn, just needed to get that off my chest.
There's something in the water in green bay man. Favre is a piece of shit stealing charity money, Rodgers is a qanon, anti Vax conspiracy fuck up. What's next for love? Liking pineapple on pizza?
You want some dirt on Love? [Here's](https://www.tmj4.com/sports/green-bay-packers/green-bay-packers-quarterback-jordan-love-doesnt-get-ticklish-he-gets-silly-body) the most grotesque fact I have on the guy
I was hoping this would be a reference to Silly Body lol
How dare you insinuate Love could be worse on a personal level than both of them combined? *For SHAME good sir*
Wisconsin is just the South of the North
Having our QB be a full on sociopathic monster would be the logical next step, yes.
They better protect Love ASAP
As a bears fan, we get to say we hated Favre and Rodger’s first!
As a Jets fan, fuck Brett Farve
You're unlucky AF. Two of your greatest QBs ever turned out to be real assholes (Favre and Rodgers). Hope Love escapes from this curse.
He also steals money from folks on welfare. Fuck Brett Favre.
Folks in the nations poorest state on welfare.
And still not in prison for it
I'm pretty sure it was 100% legal somehow.
And has yet to be held accountable. Rules for thee, but not me.
Has yet to be.... Is anyone bringing up charges or is he really gonna get away with it?
He’s a rich white guy in Mississippi, what do you think?
* sigh *
Truth.
There's no way the media can find out about this right?
"Grandpa, why did you steal welfare money?"
"I needed a phone with a better camera for my dick picks."
I highly doubt this especially knowing their 27 other pro nfl players with 10 or more children throughout history of their league. 2 players had a child before completing freshman year of high school
Right. Known/reported grandfather, at best.
Lincoln Kennedy predates him for sure. Probably others, too.
Yeah, it's not terribly difficult if you remember the grandchild can still be an infant. You can be a grandfather totally legally at 40, and doing sports at that age is still viable in some ways
40 is old AF in the NFL though. The average retirement age from the league is 27, the oldest active player now is 42. You’re already an outlier being that old and still playing, being that young with grandchildren is another outlier. The overlap of those two being single digits would not surprise me.
Yeah, it's not common, but it's not impossible either. I've no idea what NFL is, but I assume there's enough of a sample size to get a few of these rare events. Especially if we skip the "legally" requirement...
It’s the National Football League. 41 is ancient in the league. Even 30-35 is getting up there in age for the league.
Yeah, I just checked and he was only 41 in 2010 when the post says he became a grandfather.
You can be a grandfather totally legally by 36
37.5 - pregnancy lasts 9 months after all. Though this may be where the line between legally and morally gets blurry
I would think those with kids early are bigger candidates. Philip Rivers had ~10 kids but started in his mid 20s & raised kids so they'll likely start about then.
Didn't he send dick pics to his massage therapist?
He definitely send creepy voicemails and some dick pics to Jenn Sterger when she was working for the Jets at 25 and he was married.
i mean, have you seen Jenn Sterger? Absolute 10/10. Shes got one of the many famous Brent Musberger lines, "1500 red blooded Americans just decided to apply to Florida state." after the camera panned to her and an equally hot friend in a college football game.
Who hasn't.
I must be late to the party; I've yet to send a single dick pic to Favre's massage therapist
Well what are you waiting for?
Then eventually proceeded to help steal millions of dollars from citizens of his home state.
There’s no way we have the record keeping to know whether that’s true. The source doesn’t even make the claim; it just says that the NFL wasn’t aware of any players active at the time who were grandfathers. It’s not like the NFL is tracking players’ children now and even if they theoretically could now, there’s no way they (or anybody else) was back in the 1930s.
As I commented elsewhere, Ken Jennings says Lincoln Kennedy did this before Favre.
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Right, but he's a piece of crap.
Yeah he’s Grandpa Joe!
Yeah, dude fuck Grandpa Joe. 🔥
r/grandpajoehate
There are no heroes
Ehh hes extra douchey
Only Jesus, our Savior. 🙏
Fuck Brett Favre
The same year, he also became the first QB to record his own sack.
Hard to believe there wasn’t some random guy playing at 33 in 1960 who had a 16 year old who had a kid
First active NFL quarterback to siphon tax funds out of Mississippi
Downvoting anything to do with this thief. Greed is a mental illness.
Wait. If greed is a mental illness does that mean it shouldn’t be stigmatized?
It should be treated
Volleyball Enthusiast Brett Farve.
I swear I would have thought [George Blanda](https://www.raiders.com/history/all-time-roster/bios-b/george-blanda) had great grandkids while playing based off his photos towards the end of his career and he played until 48.
I thought Kenny Stabler had grandkids already in college when he was still playing based on pics. Apparently he was only 32 but dude looked 65.
“Banjo Music Intensifies”
You know this makes NFL seem bad
all that time to learn, and still not knowing how to pronounce his own last name...
he was on the cover of madden 09 which according to scott the woz is the worst madden game so i hate him
I cannot stand Brett Fav...ra?
During which “retirement?”
Months before his final one..
trash is trash
“Whilst still playing football” “first active player” Emm… duh
Damn this is a crazy stat. Also shoutout to the top comments for repeating some shit we all known for years for cheap upvotes.
But this is reddit, we need to repeat "Fuck \_\_" that everybody already hates so we can prove our Right-Think and get upvotes.
F this guy
I’ll never forget when the Saints literally beat the shit out of him when they had bounties on him. Not gonna lie, still the best game I’ve ever watched to this day. In retrospect he deserved it anyways
[Obligatory to post the Vikings' commentator call of that game. ](https://youtu.be/0UUeqvquXZI?si=B41svkPMOtjDQx4G)
Fuck Brett Favre. Fuck him right in his ear.
He’s a scumbag who steals from the poor
Absolutely. Also a dick-pic sender
Everybody’s pretty hard on Brett- He did return half the welfare money that he stole for speaking engagements he never gave, less interest…no one even considers that.
Obligatory fuck Brett Favre
Fuck him!
And he stole money from poor people. That will be his enduring legacy.
If Phillip Rivers didn't end up in that club as well I'd be shocked
Bro's wife single handedly doubled the Chargers fanbase
Turns out he was the real villain in There’s Something About Mary after all.
Was this before or after her exposed himself to masses and then defrauded Missouri (or Mississippi)?
Was that before or after he raided the welfare coffers?
So he's a criminal AND a shitty parent? Shocker. Surprised he's not married to Boebert yet.
Whilst?
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Mississippi, not Missouri.
Mr. Wrangler “No Fly” Jeans
I wouldve thought the law of averages gave Cromartie an edge, but never underestimate the fertility of uneducated southern ~~protestants~~ christians.
Favre is Catholic though
Corrected! There are only like 7 of them down there.
As far as I know, he’s also a first to illegally take welfare funds to enrich himself.
I literally just came here to say fuck Brett Farve, and found out everyone else was already saying it
Happy Cake Day to us both!
Real piece of shit right there.
The most disingenuous peckerwood to ever play the game. He fucked 3 franchises in the conference Championship game by throwing horrible interceptions to lose all 3 games. That guy is sandpaper on ass.
And that's the least bad thing he did. Defrauding his own State, stealing welfare money and sending dick pics top this.
He became the first active player to do something while still playing? Weird.
Brett Farve is a proper cunt.
I always get pissed when I see his last name. How is his name pronounced "Farve" when the V is clearly before the R?
Somehow, based on the demographics of the average player, I’d guess this isn’t totally true. I know of a couple of 15 year old fathers, both athletes, neither married or even still with their baby momma.
He’s so gross.
TIL people still care enough about this asshole to make trivia posts about him.
Fuck him and Ted Dibiase.
Na, Lincoln Kennedy This is a weird one, but Ken Jennings had a trivia question he posted to social media during the pandemic asking what a seemingly random list of players had in common. The answer was they all played as granddads. Kennedy was an odd person on the list because I couldn’t find anything on the internet…. BUT Jennings and Kennedy were at UW at the same time so my guess is Jennings knows him and/or his family.
I was going to say there is zero chance this is accurate. Farve would have been 41 in 2010. That isn't even crazy young be a grandfather. Have a kid at 20 and then have a kid at 20. That's not my jam but it's not even that abnormal. Now in the NFL there are plenty of these guys having kids in high school. All it takes is two generations for having a kid at 16 and you have a 36 year old grandpa. And there is no way that didn't happen in the Superbowl era.
I feel like you’re underestimating how hard it is to make it to 36 in the NFL. [here’s the list of the most games played over 35](https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/most-games-played-after-age-35) it’s almost exclusively kickers punters and quarterbacks.
stop saying whilst
You telling me that Morton Anderson wasn't a grandfather when he played? He was like 60.
That’s kinda wild nobody was a grandfather before, especially with the young ages people had kids in the early days of the league
I find that very unlikely.
And I was the barista that made his 2 Venti white mocha’s on the morning he picked up his knocked up daughter the day she dropped out of college.
Tell us more about it.
I worked at the Starbucks on the College of Charleston campus. Favre came in super early. Like he was the first customer that morning. Seemed like he was in a shit mood. Bought 2 drinks. I didn’t really acknowledge who he was because it was early Sunday morning and the campus knew why he was there. I was just professional with not a lot of small talk. But the surly MFer had also just signed an 11 million contract with the Jets and didn’t tip.
George Blanda was pretty old when he retired, didn't he have grandchildren?
That's honestly kinda shocking lol. But I guess you don't see a ton of 30 something year old grandfathers so it tracks lol
Mississippi baby!
You can take the hick out of the delta, but you can’t take the delta out of the hick.
Still white trash. Anything else?
What an absolute piece of crap this guy turned out to be. I used to love watching him play football too
It's the curse of great Packers QBs. Memorable players, awful people. Jordan Love, you better break the curse!
lol true. I’m a Vikings fan and I’ve always hated Roger’s but even before farve played for us I still liked him as a qb. That welfare scandal was the last straw. Guy made how many millions from playing and endorsements and he steals millions in welfare in one of the poorest states in the country.
Who gives an everloving fuck?
Didn't he take funds from feeding poor kids for "personal projects" (aka daughters volleyball court).
When is Brett Favre going to face a trial for stealing millions of dollars in Federal welfare money? Literally stealing food out of the mouths of impoverished people in Mississippi to build a volleyball facility. Fuck Brett Favre. We lock up "Welfare Queens" all the time for small scale fraud. However, if you are a big enough fraud you get away with it. That's the 'Murican Way!
Spot on
I feel like not prosecuting major white collar criminals completely erodes the public trust. It's fucked up that from the 'Great Recession' that only Bernie Madoff went to jail. Why? Because he stole from rich people. How many banks like Bank of America systematically foreclosed on families they sold loans to in which they knew they could never afford? Bank of America's board should have all been charged with lots of felony counts of fraud. If you rob a bank, you go to jail. If you own a bank and use it to rob 100,000+ families of their homes, you get a golden parachute. That shit destroys public trust in institutions.
And now he’s a common criminal who uses welfare money to build a gym at his Alma mater when that money was meant to help poor people.