“Only some accounts can reply”
No sooner did NFL reporter Dianna Russini quit her job amid a canoodling scandal than she tweeted her resignation letter – and then blocked followers from commenting on it.
Russini resigned abruptly earlier this week from her job with The Athletic, an arm of the New York Times, in the wake of scandalous canoodling photos posted on the New York Post gossip page.
The embattled, married reporter denied she was having an affair with married Pats coach Mike Vrabel, as did he with her, but Russini’s bosses suspended her pending an “investigation.”
Russini decided on her own Tuesday to pull the plug on the investigation, submitting a letter of resignation that she put is “effective immediately.”
The internal probe, according to her boss, had “raised questions” that he was pursuing the answers for when she decided she’d had enough of this internal-investigation stuff.
Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, called the resignation letter a joke, pointing out as others did on X that she was effectively portraying herself as a victim of spurious, gossip-filled press reports.
“If we’re just being honest this explanation really makes zero sense,” Portnoy wrote via X. “I don’t think anybody should lose their job over alleged canoodling but this statement makes it seem like there was definitely canoodling happening.”
The resignation letter – full of victimhood or not – was viewed by more than 13 million people.
But by Russini’s own hand, none of them were allowed to respond because she blocked responses on X.
For the record she has 448,000 X followers, compared to Portnoy ‘s 3.8 million.
“If you were Dianna Russini, and you weren’t lying, imagine how satisfying it would feel to clear your name and tweet evidence that there were others at the resort with Mike Vrabel,” tweeted Tony Farmer. “She could shut the internet up.
“Let’s be very clear – the evidence would be extremely easy to produce,” Farmer added. “The only reason I can think of to not release the evidence is if the evidence doesn’t exist.”
The Maine Wire reached out to ask the NFL whether it is investigating Vrabel for a possible league-conduct violation but received no response.
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