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Brett Favre earned about $140 million in the NFL.. Mississippi auditors said $1.1 million in welfare money went to him for speeches they say were never given.. then he sued the men talking about it. The wider scandal covers $77 million meant for the poor. "I'm getting sued alongside Shannon Sharp and an auditor from Mississippi," sports host Pat McAfee says. Favre was one of the biggest quarterbacks in football. He gave the money back, and the scandal kept going. McAfee kept talking about it on his daily show. He says "we owe the sports media world our coverage of it." The court record: Letter one: New York lawyers told McAfee to erase every video with Favre's name in it from YouTube and Twitter. "Of course we're not doing that," he says he decided. A few days later, letter two: public apology required, videos gone. Wednesday of Super Bowl week, 8:30 p.m. Eastern: the deadline. That night: he says he played pickleball, and "that timeline came and went." Next: the defamation lawsuit. McAfee calls himself "one of the worst apologizers in history." The case for Brett: McAfee says the suit accuses him of defaming Favre's name "to try to earn a profit." The case for Pat: he says the quotes in the suit were accurate, but "they seemingly edited out all the allegedly." He says that word was used often on his show. It is his first time being sued, and he says he will represent himself. Then the twist. The third man sued, state auditor Shad White, reportedly answered without that word. In the video below, one of the hosts says the auditor's reply to Favre was: "Instead of paying these lawyer fees, you could just pay back all the money that you stole from all the poor people." Was this reporting on a public scandal, or defamation of a man who gave the money back?