Jenn Sterger manager, Phil Reese, appeared on a sports talk radio show Thursday morning to open up about his frustration with the NFL and its investigation surrounding Brett Favre and his alleged voicemails and text messages.
Appearing on the Dan Patrick radio show, Reese spoke about the end game that Sterger and her entourage want. According to the interview, if the NFL suspends Favre and institutes a league-wide sexual harassment policy then the matter will end with no lawsuits brought against anyone. He is saying there would be no lawsuits against the league, Favre or the Jets. Throughout the interview, Reese repeated that pledge while Patrick probed about details that haven’t seen the light of day up to this point.
While stating his case, Reese was not willing to identify the person who provided the audio and digital photo files to Deadspin.com, the site that broke the story and published the photographs. He did say, however, that Sterger had not provided them and that her computer was compromised by a third party.
The talent manager also revealed that Sterger was disturbed by the former Jets quarterback because he would repeatedly stare at her for long periods of time on game day and that she told him that if he was going to stare, at least he could smile. When Sterger began receiving the text messages, minus any obscene pictures, she wasn’t even sure if they came from Favre.
Reese went on to say that once Favre put on the full court press for her attention, she confided in associates within her industry who responded by advising her to remain silent about it. They feared if she went to the Jets organization she would lose her job as the on field reporter for the team.
Reese also got into specific about links between Favre and the naked crotch shots. Sterger’s camp hired an ex-FBI investigator who according to Reese, put together enough credible information to demonstrate that Favre had indeed sent them.
Having issued the equivalent of a demand, Sterger’s side might want to think about how costly a lawsuit will be if the NFL doesn’t do as they suggest they should. She is unemployed at this point having been part of a sports-related show on Versus called The Daily Line that was canceled several weeks ago.
We haven’t heard the details of the NFL side of this investigation yet since the league has elected to keep all of their evidence in-house up to this point.
The audio of the interview with Dan Patrick is on the radio program’s website here.
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Paula Duffy is a national sports columnist for Examiner.com and the Huffington Post and regularly comments on sports/legal matters for radio affiliates of ESPN and Fox Sports. She founded the sports information site, Incidental Contact, is the author of a line of audio books designed for sports novices and in her spare time practices law in Los Angeles.
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