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Russini & Vrabel Nothing to see here?

Huckleberry1 said:
The NFL has no say in Vrabel's personal life. Even if something happened it's commonplace, if they start doling out penalties for sex lives there will be no end to it.
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Only thing would be if they somehow equivalent the relationship being with a prominent NFL media member as a way to game sources and dictate leverage.
 
Everyone always immediately attacks the report and the reporter when they don’t like a story. Those pictures didn’t look good and they weren’t doctored and now she quit or was forced out. I personally don’t give a crap in terms of him being the coach but looks like a pretty clear picture of what it is
 
Ice_Ice_Brady said:
I think you have the wrong lynch mob. Photos are facts.
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Yeah thats what people are glossing over. People who are business type associates do not act like that in any setting. A really, really good friend? Probably it would be okay for a quick little hug etc.

But this was a little too much. I guess she can always start an Only Fans page because I don't see what she will be able to do sports reporting in the future. Probably gonna get divorced and have nothing to show for it. Pretty brutal.
 
I remember a few years ago that there was a general manager of Washington and there was some report that he was having an affair with her and then his wife said something like Russini is a mega whore. There’s probably much more to this, almost certainly more to this.
 
Where are all the there's nothing to see here nothing happened people at?

I'm sure she quit her nice comfy job because what's implied in this pictures weren't true at all. Righhhhhttttt.
 
Ice_Ice_Brady said:
I remember a few years ago that there was a general manager of Washington and there was some report that he was having an affair with her and then his wife said something like Russini is a mega whore
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Thats more true than most know. It's been a well known secret. Makes you wonder if Vrabels wife didn't know..and Vrabels radio silence is deafening.
 
ViperGTS said:
Thats more true than most know. It's been a well known secret. Makes you wonder if Vrabels wife didn't know..and Vrabels radio silence is deafening.
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Yeah, Vrabel said a few years ago something like his wife wouldn’t care if he cut his **** off lol and then he emphasize he’s been married for 20 years. And of course it was lighthearted, but it does make you recall that line. I mean I’ve never really heard another coach or public sports figure say something like that either so it was odd.
 
ViperGTS said:
Thats more true than most know. It's been a well known secret. Makes you wonder if Vrabels wife didn't know..and Vrabels radio silence is deafening.
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He should give a press conference, admit what he did, and publicly apologize. People love a good redemption story, but they hate someone who lies, gets caught, then clings to the lie.

Admitting he did it pretty much makes the story go away. There's nothing left to investigate and there's no longer any "got'cha" moment after a man admits his guilt. He can then (accurately) answer all further questions that it is a personal matter between him and his wife and it doesn't impact his role as HC of the NEP.
 
A lot of talk here and all over to the effect that Vrabel "has to talk to the media." I agree: he should tell them to go **** themselves. This is the response the press has earned, pontificating clickbait whores that they are.
 
Thelonious said:
Asinine gossip in the manner of middle school girls. You all should be ashamed of yourselves for being so sunken in masturbatory glee, but then if you had sound enough character to realize you should be ashamed, you wouldn't indulge in this sort of embarrassing stuff in the first place.
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'Masturbatory glee?' There are people here who find this story interesting, people who find it irrelevant, people who find it sad, people somewhere in between. You’ve replaced that with a caricature that lets you grandstand, but has very little to do with what’s actually being said.

You invented a false narrative of this thread that conveniently matches your predetermined contempt for it, because engaging with what people are actually saying would be incompatible with the little performance you came here to give.

You seem to be participating in the very gossip you bemoan: assigning motives, inventing emotional states, broadcasting judgment. You are engaging in the very dynamic you condemn.
 
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Ross12 said:
The resignation is not a great sign, though it is mostly a reflection of her side of things. It does add more credence to the fact that there was inappropriate activity going on.
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The real problem for her with regard to NYT isn't the infidelity angle, it's the appearance of impropriety angle, IMO.

A reporter is not supposed to be seen as being close friends with the people they cover, never mind lovers.

Yet if this was two men on a golf course instead of a man and a women in bathing suits in a hot tub, the story would play out very differently, IMO.

Ross12 said:
I don't know why else she would resign, unless she felt the NYT was going to terminate her simply for fraternizing too much, or something, even if there was not an intimate component.
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This too is something we're not likely to know, unless she herself decides to do a tell-all.

Now, just imagine that. One of the few ways women have to level the playing field is to go scorched earth.

Ice_Ice_Brady said:
I think you have the wrong lynch mob. Photos are facts.
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Ok, let's stick to facts. A man and a women wearing bathing suits in a hot tub in a resort town.

Happens all the time, I would think, even if those people are married to other people.

Friend of mine is in Myrtle Beach right now, quite possibly doing something quite similar.

Any presumption of innocence, or do we jump to the 'facts' people here are going with?
 
Thelonious said:
A lot of talk here and all over to the effect that Vrabel "has to talk to the media." I agree: he should tell them to go **** themselves. This is the response the press has earned, pontificating clickbait whores that they are.
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The person who just delivered an unsolicited lecture on the shamefulness of "gossip", is now using the word pontificating as a pejorative. Two posts apart, without a trace of self-awareness.

So to recap: discussing a current news story with a range of perspectives = shameful gossip worthy of your moralizing sermons. Calling the media "whores" and telling people to **** themselves = totally fine, actually noble.

The same behavior you were just condemning (performative outrage, contempt for the discussion, broad-brush dismissal of everyone involved), you’re now openly endorsing, just aimed at a different target.
 
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