The war of words between Pat McAfee and lawyers for Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre doesn’t look like it will be ending anytime soon.
During an interview earlier this week, Eric Herschmann, a lawyer for Favre, commented on the current legal battle between the former Indianapolis Colts punter turned sports host and Favre.
“We think it’s a slam dunk,” Herschmann told The Daily Wire’s Crain & Company. “Shannon Sharpe — since he’s been sued — has been quiet. Pat McAfee keeps talking about it and in all of my years as an attorney and being a prosecutor previously, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a defendant build a case against themselves.”
Herschmann then took aim at McAfee’s defense, or in his eyes, lack of a defense.
“His defense was, ‘Oh, I threw in the word ‘allegedly’ but two things is; the things that we cite, he didn’t throw in the world ‘allegedly,’ and secondly if he did any research or had a lawyer looking, that’s not really a defense.”
The attorney also said they are “starting” with McAfee and Sharpe, while monitoring what other pundits have said about the former NFL quarterback after he was alleged to have spearheaded a campaign to misuse Mississippi welfare funds to build a new volleyball arena on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. Favre — an alumnus of the university — denies any wrongdoing in the scheme.
The statements from Herschmann come after McAfee joked about being served papers in the official legal filing by Favre’s team.
“I don’t fully comprehend how any of this happened,” McAfee said earlier this month. “I’ve reached out to a lot of different law people…I’m gonna have to hire a lawyer, ’cause there’s so much f—ing shit that goes into it, which I don’t love about the American process. Somebody can just file a fugaze lawsuit, now automatically I have to hire this lawyer, I have to go through this whole process, but I have to. I’m gonna have to do that.”
