Mike Vrabel skated through what was supposed to be a full-blown news conference Wednesday as not one alleged reporter asked one tough question.
Podcaster Tony Farmer, who has been leading the nation’s media in aggressively covering Vrabel’s affair with ex-NFL reporter Dianna Russini, wasn’t surprised by the pathetic lack of journalistic curiosity.
Farmer arguably is the only reporter in sight who has asked real questions to try to get to the bottom of the extramarital relationship.
He posted a sample of what is sarcastically called the “toughest questions Pats Coach Mike Vrabel was asked Wednesday by a room full of journalists:”
√ How he’s managed “distractions.”
√ If he’ll miss any other time this spring in addition to having skipped the recent NFL draft.
√ If there’s room to add a top receiver to the roster.
No one asked what would have been a killer question.
The Maine Wire has a suggestion:
“Are you willing to take a paternity test, sir?”
After all, the internet has been awash in speculation over whether Coach Mike fathered at least one of Russini’s two little boys.
One of them, named “Mike,” was born not long after one of Vrabel’s and Russini’s “get-togethers,” if you will.
It’s now nearly two months since the New York Post published explosive pix of the married Vrabel and the also-married Russini hanging out alone at a pricey Arizona resort hotel.
One pic showed them embracing on the hotel roof and another of them in a hot tub together.
Vrabel laughed off the steamy pix as innocent – but just days later admitted to having “difficult conversations with my wife.”
He then said he was going to miss the annual NFL draft to go into therapy.
His gal pal also denied anything nefarious between the two, just before she quit The Athletic amid the outlet’s launching an investigation into her behavior.
Russini explained the resignation as necessary to avoid giving the media’s coverage of her affair “any more oxygen.”
Since the Post photos were published, more pictures have surfaced showing the happy couple at a NYC bar and boating alone in Tennessee, where she covered Vrabel when he was the Titans coach.
“If Dianna Russini wasn’t an NFL reporter and Coach Of The Year voter, this would be a non-story and I’d agree with reporters not digging” Farmer says. “If Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini were both single, this would still be a massive scandal because of Russini’s role as an NFL reporter and Coach Of The Year voter.”
