Brett Favre fined $50k for not cooperating with investigation into 'sexting' scandal

[CatWoman]

thank god he didn't "sext" a canine :eyes:

Brett Favre has been fined $50,000 by the NFL for a 'failure to cooperate' with the investigation into allegations he sent inappropriate messages and lewd photos to former New York Jets game-day hostess Jenn Sterger.

The league said Commissioner Roger Goodell 'could not conclude' that Favre violated the league's personal conduct policy based on the evidence currently available to him.
'The forensic analysis could not establish that Favre sent the objectionable photographs to Sterger,' the statement said. 'The review found no evidence to contradict the statements of both Favre and Sterger that they never met in person, nor was there anything to suggest that Sterger engaged in any inappropriate conduct.'

Goodell determined Favre was 'not candid in several respects during the investigation resulting in a longer review and additional negative public attention for Favre, Sterger and the NFL,' the statement said. The league's investigation began in October and the fine was announced Wednesday.
The NFL also reviewed media reports that Favre pursued two massage therapists who worked at the Jets' facility in 2008, when Favre played for the team. But the league said that claim could not be substantiated because people with 'potentially relevant information' declined to be interviewed or cooperate with investigators.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342518/Brett-Favre-fined-50k-cooperating-investigation-sexting-scandal.html#ixzz19WxApCN3

[rfranklin]

1. Well, at least he didn't kill the woman...

though seeing L'il Brett might have caused a fatal shock.

[CatWoman]

6. lol

I was curious about this story, and goggled up some links.

Some of them actually contained pics of "Lil Brett" :rofl:

He had a lot of nerve sending pics of that runt to that woman :rofl:

She probably laughed her ass off, same as me :rofl:

[47of74]

2. Brett Favre: The only NFL quarterback in history to record his own sack.

[Angry Dragon]

3. +1000 .... thanks for the laugh

[dhill926]

4. guffaw inducing.... gracias.......

[47of74]

8. I saw it on a shirt offered for sale at West Towne Mall in Madison

It didn't dawn on me until I was back home in Iowa exactly what the makers of that shirt were referring to.

[blondeatlast]

5. LOL! nt

[PeaceNikki]

7. A $50,000 fine on his salary is like someone making $50,000 being fined $1.26

Really, why bother?

He should have been suspended.

[jobycom]

9. Some year for the NFL and women, eh?

Brett Favre is accused of sexual harrassment by a third party, and the NFL drags its feet until it finally issues a meaningless fine at the end of Favre's career, having neither proven nor disproven a single thing.

The Jets harass a reporter with catcalls and lewd gestures and comments, and the basic angle of the sports media is that she "was asking for it by being hot," and then concluding that maybe no one should be allowed in locker rooms--reminiscent of the cities that filled in their public swimming pools rather than integrating them. Net result--female reporters are still second class professionals, at best, in covering the NFL.

One of the NFL's premier QBs is accused of rape by several different women telling basically the same story, complete with corroborating evidence, and the QB is suspended for six games--then the NFL lowered it to four, which is about the same as a player would get for taking the wrong over-the-counter cold medicine.

People who are obsessed with Vick aren't paying a damn bit of attention.

[TBF]

10. No - I've seen this story as well and detest Favre. Of course I am

also a Green Bay Packer fan and I doubt you'll find many Packer fans who think much of him at this point. He should've retired when he left the Packers. The rest has just been drama, and now criminal behavior, it really puts a taint on his legacy.

[jobycom]

11. I don't detest him, I'm just disgusted with the way the NFL handled it.

They were more interested in making the problem go away than in any justice for Sterger or in sending any message to the rest of the league. They fined Favre a token fee for not cooperating when they were doing everything in their power to make sure he didn't cooperate. They dragged their feet, ignored the issue, and gave Favre plenty of time to buy Sterger's silence, and practically begged Favre to not confess to anything.

I didn't want to see Favre made an example, I just wanted to see the NFL take the issue more seriously and make some effort to change their environment. If they had no evidence on Favre--and there is less evidence than the media wants people to believe, since even the third party who published the photos and texts say they had no way to prove their source or their authenticity--then make a statement that they had no evidence, but then strongly reiterate their policy, send out their famous memos, and make an issue of it, publicly and internally. Especially after the Ines Sainz incident. Instead they slipped the story out late night in mid week, knowing it would be swallowed up in the playoff hype. They even waited until Favre was injured, so it won't become a natural story during the game.

As for Favre as a player, you should detest Green Bay's GM more than Favre. He got into a measuring contest and ran Favre off after a 13-3 season that ended in the NFC Championship game in overtime to the team that went on the beat the "Greatest Team in History" in the Super Bowl. If he'd have kept Favre, Green Bay would have won a Super Bowl or two. Instead, Favre went to two crappy teams and turned them into legitimate contenders while Aaron Rodgers (who is great, don't get me wrong) stumbled around trying to get up to speed while the only decent team Green Bay has built in the last decade underachieved. That ranks on up there with Jerry Jones firing Jimmy Johnson as the worst football decisions ever. Actually, Jones got another Super Bowl after firing Johnson, so Green Bay's decision was ever dumber.

Not that I care, mind you. Green Bay is just another team, to me. If they want to self destruct, I'm not going to stand in their way. My Saints got a Super Bowl in part because Green Bay folded, so I'm happy. :)

[bullwinkle428]

13. Some of us can multi-task when it comes to NFL outrages. My biggest fear

is a Super Bowl matchup between the Steelers and Eagles. I'll be forced to pull for a team led by a serial rapist (allegedly), or a team led by a dog torturer/killer (convicted).

What a wonderful equal-opportunity choice of scumbags!

[jobycom]

15. Still wasn't my point. The hatred of Vick is insanity at this point, but the more ubiquitous issue

of the NFL's disregard of any gender issues (or gay equality issues, for that matter) is ignored completely.

Face it, Vick is never going to get involved in dog fighting again, nor is he likely to torture any animal he's not planning to make a steak out of again. The rest of the NFL will stay away from dog fighting, too. It's a solved issue. But you can't tell me that the NFL's reaction to Favre or to the Ines Sainz incident has detered any player from sexual harrassment. The NFL's overall attitude was "Why do we have to be bothered by this nonsense?" not "How can we create a professional environment where everyone can do their job without being harrassed?"

And their reaction to Roethlisberger was disgusting. Six games, reduced to four, after being exposed as a serial rapist? I don't personally think any employer, including the NFL, should be allowed to punish employees for what they do on their own time, but the NFL is allowed to and has clearly established the precedent. Roethlisberger, because he's white or because his victim was a woman or whatever, clearly wasn't held to an appropriate and equal standard.

My point wasn't that there are other offenders than Vick. My point was that this hate-fest over a black former-convict who will not commit the same crime again reveals an irrational obsession and a blindness to bigger issues. I don't care one way or the other about Vick--never was a fan or a hater--I'm just stunned, though not surprised, by the overwhelming hatred of the person while ongoing issues don't generate anywhere near the appropriate level of response.

And I'm old-fashioned enough to sincerely believe that it's all about race and sexism, for the record. If Roethlisberger had participated in dog fighting and served a prison sentence, the reaction here wouldn't be half as strong. If Vick had raped several women and had the exact same level of evidence against him, he'd have been banned for life. Actually, he'd be in prison for decades instead of playing, because somehow our justice system would have seen the same amount of evidence against him as plenty for a conviction. Ask Mike Tyson about that.

[Initech]

12. They should've docked him at least an entire game's pay.

[cbdo2007]

14. Did they ever release what was in the text messages Sterger sent to Favre?