The Fall of Favre

This documentary really relies on the audience being mindless and unable to form their own logic. They spend 75% of the documentary building up the character of a girl who made a career out of looking attractive eluding to something serious happening between her and Favre. Was it an affair? Did he rape her? Once it's finally revealed you find that they never met and that he was simply messaging her culminating in him supposedly sending her a picture of his crotch (which was investigated and never proven by a hired forensic analyst). They try to imply this somehow ruined her life and career. Then they spend five minutes on the actual drama which is Favre being part of a scheme to use state welfare money inappropriately. Unfortunately for the documentary crew, after exhaustive investigating they found that, while he probably shouldn't have been involved, it was the politicians who had broken the law and he was cleared. So we have a documentary with a title, "the fall of Favre" essentially saying he deserves to get socially cancelled since he wasn't prosecuted for things he was found not guilty of. Maybe we only care about the Brett Favre that played football. Maybe most people wouldn't like him outside of that. Maybe most of us are ok with that. Maybe these sports documentaries should spend more time focusing on sports and less about silly drama.

Unlike the majority of viewers of this program (whom I assume are American), I've got no truck with Favre as an American Football player or his club. I personally watch very little of that sport and only have a passing interest.

Anyhow, this is a story of a sportsman put on a pedestal only to attempt to knock himself off of it whilst his supporters seem to turn a blind eye to his off-field shenanigans. Granted many sportspeople are not angels, but the gulf between the reality and belief on this one player is quite stark. He won't be the last one.

This documentary is a very interesting look at the allegations, focussing in particular in his text-stalking of Jenn Sterger, albeit I think they focussed too much on that side, and too little on the public funds scandals which should have destroyed his entire career. Sadly though to his fans, his misdemeanours have been left unchecked and he remains a hero to the blinded fools. His reputation really should have gone down like the Wickerman.

If there is a weakness, I concede that this documentary has him guilty as charged without giving a defence, that is a problem here I find. In some ways quite uncomfortable, but too many of the facts are clear enough and evidence is too strong to ignore.

It's an interesting but admittedly uncomfortable documentary.

So basically a gold star athlete is a womanizer. Not that exciting to hear. Usually we hear about athletes beating the living shit out of women so this is pretty low on the totem pole. Certainly not endorsed but common place where ever you have young men and money and then older men and money. So many have fallen prey to this whole thing in their world. Certainly he was wrong, and it is what it is without a doubt. But he's not alone. He's a very, very, very good company. In cases like these people are able to separate what he did for them as a star quarterback, compared to how he is in real life off the field. We see that with Rockstars all the time. Drug addicted, disgusting mess, but people love them, and hang on their every word and their every song. It is definitely a weird phenomenon that human beings have with celebrity status people. This was very one-sided, not a whole lot of people being interviewed that say a lot of good things. I'm sure there's many out there, but they didn't want that in this particular documentary. This is one of the worst ones I've seen in the series. Knowing what I know now I wouldn't of bothered.

I don't like or dislike Favre, he might actually be a scumbag, but this "documentary" seems like a totally hollow smear-piece. No attempt was made to cover both sides, which is mind-blowing since Netflix went out of their way to cover both sides (yikes) of the Boston Marathon bombers. Yet Brett Favre according to Netflix is worse than terrorists because he allegedly sent **** pics. I say allegedly because he was never convicted of anything and of course Netflix doesn't even try to prove its authenticity. For all we know it's real and he should be charged, or it's not real or taken completely out of context and he shouldn't be. Of course Netflix doesn't bother to show the entire text chain for context, prove its authenticity, or get the prospective of the accused, all of which makes this a total waste of time.

Basically the entire "documentary" is just people saying Favre is bad while providing sketch "proof." And naturally they checked all the typical Netflix blame-boxes: racism, sexism, politicians that Netflix hates, etc. Etc....

In the end it's just repackaging sensationalist news from over a decade ago. Favre might actually be a total scumbag who deserves to be in jail, or he might be an innocent victim of people taking advantage of his celebrity, this documentary failed MISERABLY to prove that one way or the other.

A really bland drag piece. The scandal doesn't go anywhere and we can all tell Brett is missing a few screws, he's from Mississippi... he was one hell of a throw in his early days. Good luck making a buck off of this-to whatever the chick's name is we already forgot about you. Hawk Tuah of 2005. It really wasn't capture anything on personal interview with Favre or any of his family or close friends. Mostly interviews people that are 95 years old that worked behind the scenes in football. Just another Netflix Brainrot AI suggestion - I fell for it and I didn't even sue Brett Favre yet. Skip this.