In April 2022, Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe rocked the worlds of sports and politics when she published a groundbreaking report about how Brett Favre and his pal, former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, were seemingly up to no good. According to Wolfe’s report, Favre seemed to have leveraged his in with one of the state’s top politicos to receive funding for such non-essential things asa new volleyball stadiumat the college his daughter attends — and that the money had come from the state’s struggling welfare fund.