Pat McAfee being sued by Brett Favre

Football media personality and former punter Pat McAfee is tied up in some legal troubles in connection to comments made about Brett Farve’s alleged welfare scandal in Mississippi. McAfee is being sued for defamation after making several comments suggesting Farve’s guilt in the welfare scandal.

The lawsuit claims McAfee called Farve a “thief” who was “stealing from poor people in Mississippi” on his show, “The Pat McAfee Show.” The lawsuit adds that McAfee also posted statements along those lines on Twitter.

On Friday’s episode of his show, McAfee announced he was being sued by Farve:

Ladies and gentlemen.. I am being sued by Brett Favre#PMSinAZ pic.twitter.com/QIm0i0ohUV

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) February 10, 2023

“I’m getting sued by Brett Farve. I’m getting sued, alongside Shannon Sharpe and an auditor from Mississippi, by Brett (freaking) Farve. Brett Farve is suing me in a defamation lawsuit saying I defamed his name to try to earn a profit. With this, obviously, I believe comes discovery and depositions and all these other things.”

McAfee said he received two letters from Farve’s New York lawyers before the lawsuit was announced. He said the first letter asked him to erase any and all videos of him across various media platforms where Brett Farve’s name is mentioned. McAfee said of the letter: “That is hilarious. Of course, we aren’t doing that.”

A few days later, the former punter says he was told he had until Wednesday of Super Bowl Week at 8:30 p.m. ET “to issue a public apology to Brett Farve and also to erase all of the videos in your catalog that involve Brett Farve’s name.”

However, McAfee again declined to cooperate and says he always made sure to cover his tracks when talking about the Farve situation.

“The quotes that were in that lawsuit were certainly accurate, but there’s one word that was said often on this particular program, and that would be ‘allegedly.'”

He then added that he and his crew “take (their) jobs seriously as journalists.”

What a doozy. Farve v. McAfee in the courtroom.