When she began engaged on “UNTOLD: The Fall of Favre,” a brand new Netflix documentary that follows among the most disgraceful components of NFL Corridor of Famer Brett Favre’s profession, director Rebecca Gitlitz instructed The Guardian that she wished to discover whether or not some individuals are above the legislation.
“Have they been instructed so many instances that no matter they do they’ll get away with it? Stuff like that, the place historical past repeats itself, I wished to see how that occurs,” she stated.
One one that appears to suppose Favre has been getting a go is former Atlanta Falcons quarterback, Michael Vick, who famously acquired a 23-month jail sentence for fees associated to his involvement in a dogfighting ring by which pit bulls had been killed.
Throughout his interview for “UNTOLD,” Vick factors out the hypocrisy in the best way he was handled when in comparison with the quarterback who spent 20 years within the NFL, together with 15 as quarterback of the Inexperienced Bay Packers.
Favre was fined $50,000 however not suspended by the NFL in 2010 for allegedly sending suggestive textual content messages to a feminine sideline reporter who labored for the New York Jets. And most just lately, he managed to escape felony fees in 2022, even after textual content messages put him on the middle of a scandal in his house state of Mississippi by which cash that was supposed for welfare recipients within the state went to pay him for talking engagements he by no means fulfilled and an athletic facility on the College of Southern Mississippi, the place his daughter performed volleyball on the time, as a substitute.
“Folks go to jail for stealing cash day by day. If it’s that necessary, the precise establishments can get entangled. However, , some individuals are untouchable in sure methods and that’s simply the best way it’s,” Vick says within the movie. “I simply suppose that’s kinda how the system is rigged. You already know, some conditions must be performed out in court docket. Some must be performed out within the public.”
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) agrees that the system was rigged in Favre’s favor and calls him out for taking cash from the individuals in his state who want it most.
“You’re taking cash supposed for the poorest. I don’t know the way he sleeps at night time,” he says within the movie.
In response to PEOPLE, Favre denied a request to be interviewed for the doc.
Though Favre didn’t obtain the punishment many individuals imagine he deserves, some are glad the movie shines a lightweight on one thing apart from his throwing arm.
“Not less than this documentary plans on holding him accountable as a result of the legislation positive didn’t,” wrote somebody on YouTube within the feedback of the trailer video.