Judging from the sad, somber, deflated look on his drawn face Tuesday, the embattled New England Patriots head coach musta gotten a Dear John letter from his suffering wife.
Football stud Mike Vrabel has tried for two weeks to pass off lovey-dovey zoom-lens pix of him and a curvy married NYT reporter as just two ships passing in the night.
When the long-lens shots recently appeared in the NY Post gossip section the big three-time Superbowl champ tried to dismiss them as quote “laughable.”
But Dianna Russini wasn’t laughing a few days later when she abruptly resigned after the New York Times suspended her pending an investigation of her suspicious relationship with extra-point Mike.
Russini half-denied the affair despite the pictures of her and Mike hugging on a hotel roof and hot-tubbing together at a pricey Arizona resort.
After days in exile Mike came out from hiding Tuesday, standing behind a lectern facing a handful of people with laptops, pens and notebooks claiming to be reporters.
But none of those half-wits asked Mike any serious questions about his gal pal – the one who’s not his wife of 25 years.
Vrabel looked like he had just been told he has terminal cancer.
What a few days ago he described as “laughable” gossip was now suddenly something he said entailed “difficult conversations I’ve had with my family.”
He never said which members of his family he was referring to, nor did he say what the so-called “difficult conversations” were about.
But it’s not hard to figure out how something he called “laughable” suddenly became “difficult.”
Otherwise he made a few throw-away comments about the upcoming football draft and then shut down questions about his affair.
Though sad Mike and now-unemployed Dianna have pretended they’re not sharing secret steamy moments together, neither of their spouses has come out publicly and said one word in defense of the loving, canoodling couple facing the most critical period in their professional careers.
If Jen Vrabel has told Mikey he’s sleeping on the couch no one would be surprised, with what he’s put that poor woman through.
The only clowns sticking by Mike’s “laughable” denials – to use his word – are Pats sycophants blindly refusing to acknowledge the obvious affair despite the overwhelming evidence.
“The cowardice of the Patriots head coach (hiding for two weeks and then not answering questions yesterday) trickles down to the fanbase,” says NFL analyst Tony Farmer.
Is this the Maine Wire or Vanity Fair?