Los Angeles (AFP) - Former Green Bay Packers great Brett Favre said Friday that a Mississippi state auditor's claim that he received $1.1 million for speaking engagements he never attended was "100% not true."
The Hall of Fame quarterback has already agreed to pay back the $1.1 million, which auditor Shad White said this week was paid with funds from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) federal welfare program.
Favre, in an interview on ESPN Wisconsin, said he had no idea the money he received may have come from funds intended to aid impoverished families, saying the idea he would take such money was "ridiculous.