Vrabel and Russini

[OILERMAN]

5 hours ago, cenj said:

As a hypothetical...

 

If photos came out showing Albert Breer at a romantic getaway, holding hands with the wife of Robert Kraft

 

1) No one would be like, "they are just friends!" 

 

 

Jamal and his wife say hi!

[OILERMAN]

Russini is apparently already doing some interviews for a new job

 

[headhunter]

There's a protest going on for Russini to get her job back but it's just one nerd with an eye patch that showed up 

[animatormike]

And Crissy Froyd is now fired from USA Today for her comments.  

https://pagesix.com/2026/04/16/entertainment/nfl-reporter-crissy-froyd-fired-after-slamming-dianna-russini-for-viral-pics-with-mike-vrabel/

[headhunter]

26 minutes ago, animatormike said:

And Crissy Froyd is now fired from USA Today for her comments.  

https://pagesix.com/2026/04/16/entertainment/nfl-reporter-crissy-froyd-fired-after-slamming-dianna-russini-for-viral-pics-with-mike-vrabel/

That's some bullshit 

[Jamalisms]

1 hour ago, animatormike said:

And Crissy Froyd is now fired from USA Today for her comments.  

https://pagesix.com/2026/04/16/entertainment/nfl-reporter-crissy-froyd-fired-after-slamming-dianna-russini-for-viral-pics-with-mike-vrabel/

 

Too gleeful about it and too direct while dragging in extra details about other things. Nobody wants sued on this and there's a lot of careful commenting but nothing like what she said.

[Stranger]

Crissy will get another legitimate journalism job though. Russini won't. 

[abenjami]

8 hours ago, IsntLifeFunny said:

The President fucked kids? 

 

He must have been talking about a different President.  I highly doubt Trump is capable of stopping talking long enough to fuck anything.

[Jamalisms]

Ever since his buddy "hung himself" the supply of young girls has certainly diminished.

[freakingeek]

20 hours ago, Jamalisms said:

 

I agree. A lot of the reason she gets treated worse than whoever it was that got caught having a source edit his work (big journalistic no no) is because of the taboo of sex. It's not about the journalism.

 

I also think a male reporter sleeping with a female coach would be way, way less a scandal ... so gender comes into it. But even I don't care to discuss that beyond mentioning it.

Women have been struggling for centuries to overcome the stigma of being viewed as sexual objects and inferior to men in their abilities. In our society, they've made significant progress and it's a slap in the face to them for Russini to expose the fact that it still goes on, which diminishes the accomplishments of the women in sports who ARE doing it the right way and are successful. It revives the stigma that they "sleep their way to being successful businesswomen.

 

Vrabel, on the other hand, is just a dumb jock with a giant ego who's trying to get his willie wet and using that power he has as a HC to make it happen. 

 

Then there's the moral side of the coin with both parties being married and being unfaithful partners and disrespectful to their spouses. The moral fiber in our society has been declining for a long time.

[Jamalisms]

Vrabel is worse than that. He's a head coach information gatekeeper with power and influence over which reporters gets opportunities. He gets praise for letting Theresa Walker / whoever her counterpart is in NE ask questions first. He's a champion of women journalists! Except he's also (allegedly) accepting sexual favors / sex acts / having an affair with at least one woman he gives access to.

 

There's plenty wrong there beyond just infidelity.

[cenj]

All coaches and GMs manipulate stories -- that's part of the PR game. None of us know the details, but if I had to guess, I'd assume Vrabel wasn't with Russini just to manipulate her into being his schill. He could have done that without the sex part (like every other coach and exec). So there is both the controlling the stories angle and the infidelity angle. 

 

But it feels particularly egregious because Vrabel has been pumped up in the media and some great, loyal guy. I'm quite sure he's pushed that narrative himself. And Russini has been especially dishonest in favor of Vrabel. The fact that everyone here knew Vrabel was Russni's source for years, and accused them of an affair, and she continued pushing stories that absolutely affected FAs and perhaps tampering...

 

 

[headhunter]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/dianna-russini-took-fall-mike-223847999.html

 

[headhunter]

[CreepingDeath]

44 minutes ago, headhunter said:

Experience in a spread out wide offense.  Probably doesn't have the attributes to be a tight end anymore.