The disgraced NFL reporter who the New York Post caught canoodling with the Pats coach and later credited with saving a car-crash victim was apparently nowhere near the accident.
The Post recently ran a story crediting Dianna Russini happening upon the New Jersey scene and rushing to rescue the trapped elderly driver even as her NFL writing career was crashing and burning.
But podcaster and NFL analyst Tony Farmer was skeptical and got a copy of the police accident report to follow his hunch.
Sure enough the cop investigating the car crash made no mention of Russini in his report.
So Farmer called the Post to point out the apparent false story.
Within four hours it ran a new piece correcting the fact Russini wasn’t mentioned in the accident report.
Farmer explained on his X account “My red flags were raised by Russini not being in the report (and some additional conflicting details I discovered). So I reached out to the article’s author.”
When Farmer began following the bread crumbs dropped by the married Russini’s affair with married Pats coach Mike Vrabel he had 8,000 followers on X. He now has roughly double that, 15,000.
Farmer first showed up on The Maine Wire’s radar ten days ago when he reached out seeking background on our coverage of Vrabel-Russini.
“I emailed Ted Cohen, a journalist from the Maine Wire in New England because I saw in one of his articles that he reached out to the NFL for comment and they hadn’t responded,” Farmer tweeted on April 21. “NFL spokesman Bryan McCarthy first stated on April 17 that the NFL would not discipline Vrabel, 4 days after Cohen’s email. It appears the NFL ghosted at least one journalist asking questions about Mike Vrabel.”
The Vrabel saga began early last month when the Post ran steamy photos of an NFL coach and reporter apparently sharing intimate moments together at an Arizona hotel.
Though both denied anything nefarious Vrabel has since all admitted the affair (“seeking counseling following difficult conversations with my wife”) and Russini resigned from her beat job.
Farmer has been far ahead of most of the worldwide coverage, the latest evidence being the apparently false Post story he discovered Thursday through his reporting.
As a result he’s catching flack from New England Patriots sycophants wanting to protect Mike Vrabel.
So it’s no wonder Farmer has become defensive about the fawning Pats fans who complain he’s overplaying the story.
“I’ve broken more stories on this scandal than any beat writer in Boston,” he posted Thursday in response to one of the whiners. “Legacy media is losing the narrative in the Mike Vrabel – Dianna Russini scandal and it’s satisfying to watch them slowly realize it.”
