ESPN Blatantly Ignores Brett Favre Story
Author’s Note: The explicit detailed breakdown is not aimed at regular readers, but those who often request 15 excel spread-sheets before acknowledging the existence of ESPN’s Great White Pass. If it doesn’t apply, let it fly.
Yesterday, we asked why ESPN’s The Sports Reporters would compare Manny Ramirez to Adam Jones before Brett Favre. Today we ask ESPN: “Just how untouchable is Brett Favre?” The big news on Favre came from Fox Sports Jay Glazer who reported:
“Several sources have told FOX Sports that Favre earlier this year phoned the Detroit Lions prior to their battle versus Favre’s old team, the Green Bay Packers, and gave them a rundown of the nuances of what Green Bay does on offense. According to the sources, Favre actually spent over an hour on the phone with Lions coaches, who were connected with Favre by then-team president Matt Millen.”
Is the story true? Did Favre try to sabotage his old team? One clue might be found back in Favre’s initial press conference with the Jets where he candidly and surprisingly stated:
“I was never not interested in the Jets… My interest at first … was to stay within the division. Maybe that was my vindictive nature, my competitive nature. In the end, that was the wrong motivation.”
Favre may have changed teams, but perhaps not his “vindictive nature”. What did Favre say about this? Glazer — who stands by his story “1000 percent” explained that he didn’t call Favre for a response because “he feared Favre would have promptly called someone from ESPN to give them Favre’s skewed version of the situation” and that ESPN would “scoop” him.
