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AwfulAnnouncing: So Here's Why ESPN Completely Ignored The Jay Glazer-Favre Story
The Zone Blitz: Peter King: Jay Glazer should have gotten Brett Favre's comment
Tirico Suave: In A Perfect World, ESPN Would Expand This Memo To Include All Stories That Even Remotely Mention Brett Favre
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char6587 not sure this is as big of a deal as the all caps headline would suggest. they had reliable information that the story wasn't true, so they thought it right to not report it.
I guess they could have said, "so here's a story that is not true: brett favre..."
im not an espn sympathizer, but this is no conspiracy. stop trying to make it one.
So Here's Why ESPN Completely Ignored The Jay Glazer-Favre Story
AwfulAnnouncing —
... A lot of sites took the time to mention this yesterday, but I personally wanted to give it a day. Sports Center occasionally skips past items of this nature, but when NFL Live, Monday Night Countdown, MNF, Primetime at Halftime and late night SC, fail to mention it....something has to be up. That something was an inner-office release that stated Glazer's story was "not true" and was not to be mentioned under any circumstance. Via PFT.... ...
Peter King: Jay Glazer should have gotten Brett Favre's comment
The Zone Blitz —
... it, that Favre would have shared the story with somebody. So he would have got beat on his own story. And I kind of understand that. But ... the story is in essence going to ruin Favre's reputation. It will be as hurtful as anything, in my opinion, that has ever happened to him since he has walked into the NFL. And that includes going to rehab." I love the line "that Favre would have shared the story with somebody." I wonder if Glazer thought that "somebody" was King? Pro Football Talk reports: ESPN issued internal “DO NOT REPORT” warning on Favre story. ...
In A Perfect World, ESPN Would Expand This Memo To Include All Stories That Even Remotely Mention Brett Favre
Tirico Suave —
... Brett Favre Sucks And I Hate Him ESPN issued internal “Do Not Report” Warning On Favre Story . (Pro Football Talk) If he never gunslung his way onto my television set again, I’d be a happy less angry man. Tags: ...
ESPN Will Continue to Ignore the Giant Elephant That Is Brett Favre-Gate
FanHouse —
... As Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk explains, there's a very good reason for that. Well, maybe it's not a "very good" reason, but it is a reason. I guess. ...
ESPN puts Brett Favre story under cone of silence
Sports stories from Newsday —
... Why did ESPN say nothing about it, even to debunk it? The Web site Pro Football Talk reported that ESPN's internal "Hot List" of key news stories specifically told staff members not to address it. ...
ESPN Still Hasn't Reported On Brett Favre Calling The Lions And Giving Them The Packers Offense
FanIQ Blog —
... Well, here's why it has yet to be reported on ESPN. According to Pro Football Talk, this memo was sent out to everyone at the Worldwide Leader: ...
Le Batard Sides With Fox On ESPN Story Boycott
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... And now Mike Florio at PRO FOOTBALL TALK is reporting that ESPN is not allowing on-air staffers to report the story - claiming that the tip by Glazer isn’t true. ( ...
This Brett Favre 'betrayal' thing keeps getting weirder
tonyblogs.net - Sports news, humor, videos and prognostications. —
... First the Gunslinging One gave the Lions some inside info on the Packers, then he denied it. Then ESPN - the network that usually goes ga-ga over anything Favre-related - wouldn't touch the story with a ten foot pole. Today Pro Football Talk revealed that an ESPN memo said not to report the story because they don't report inaccurate stories that they can't confirm. ...
ESPN-Gate: Jay Glazer ticked over ESPN memo
The Zone Blitz —
... The release of the ESPN memo, telling their folks not to report what Jay Glazer was reporting over at Fox, has Glazer ticked with the network. The ESPN memo had the headline: "DO NOT REPORT . . . DO NOT REPORT . . . . DO NOT REPORT . . . DO NOT REPORT.” ...
The Latest on Favre-Gate
Pride Of Detroit —
The whole "oh my God, Brett Favre called the Lions about Green Bay's offense" saga is really getting interesting. Right now there are two sides in this saga: those that agree with Jay Glazer's report and those that think it isn't true. Most people seem to be on Glazer's size, but there are some out there that don't think the story is accurate. The main side opposing Glazer is ESPN and Favre himself. ESPN hasn't mentioned this story even once on TV or on ESPN.com, and Pro Football Talk got the scoop of why that is the ...
ESPN & FAVRE STORY DISTURBING
Zoner Sports —
... The first comes from Pro Football Talk and it explains why ESPN issued a “DO NOT REPORT” on the Favre story. PFT shoots down ESPN’s reasons behind not publishing the story. ...
The Obligatory "Brett Favre Did WHAT!?" Post
Daily Norseman —
... Well, if the folks over at Pro Football Talk are to be believed, it's because the higher-ups at ESPN specifically ordered their personnel not to talk about the matter. They told their people that they had "examined the story" and determined it not to be true. (If you hit PFT, they've got a story about Jay Glazer being livid over ESPN's conclusion, and so he should be.) ...
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Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies - Pittsburgh Sports Videos, Humor and Crack Analysis. And Ridiculously Small Horses —
... ] ESPN told their employees NOT to report the Favre phone calls to the Lions. That's odd, seeing how he's on just about every other minute on ESPN. [ Pro Football Talk ] ESPN's Dan LeBatard sides with Fox Sport's Jay Glazer, not ESPN, on the whole deal. [ ...
ESPN Edict: Thou Shalt Not Acknowledge Jay Glazer
The Big Lead —
... An anonymous ESPN source forwarded ProFootballTalk an internal ESPN “Hot List,” which included the following statement, under the title “DO NOT REPORT…DO NOT REPORT…DO NOT REPORT…DO NOT REPORT.” ...
The Morning Tailgate
JoeSportsFan.com —
... The Media Circus - We promise, we will not mention the fact that ESPN sent out an internal memo insisting that no one at the WorldWide Leader speak of the “unconfirmed” Brett Favre/Lions story. Not one time, with the exception of the previous sentence. ...
Daily Haze
N/A —
... What does ESPN have to hide by not reporting the latest on Brett Favre? Are they catering to athletes? ...
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SI.com - Extra Mustard —
... So, Brett Favre may or may not have given the Lions inside information before they played the Packers. But that's hardly the best part of the story. The best part is that ESPN reportedly put out a memo instructing its staff not to report the story. Actually, that's only the second-best part of the story. The best part of the story is that someone at ESPN forwarded the memo to ProFootballTalk.com. ...
Where's The Story?
Acme Packing Company —
... tell, I hate Page 2's Jemele Hill. Everything is either about race or women. She's a female Stephen A. Smith, minus the gratuitous shouting.)
So why not chase the ratings on this story? Was it just ineptitude on the part of ESPN reporters? Absolutely not. At least not this time. According to Mike Florio of the Sporting News, it was the ESPN executives that instructed their editors to not report the story. Here's the memo, plus some inherent questions that come along with it: ...
Brett Favre, ESPN, Jay Glazer and You [Media Meltdowns]
Deadspin —
... about whether or not he shared offensive secrets with the Lions prior to the Packers game. As you may have heard: Glazer broke the story, ESPN sends out standard memo instructing its Bristol army NOT TO REPORT THAT STORY, and questions pop up as to whether the WWL is installing a company-wide anti-Glazer policy for the sake of Chris Mortensen's fragile ego or if Favre is sour-grape sabotaging his former team. ...
ESPN Says It Is, So Now It Must Be True
RealClearSports - Blog —
Over the weekend, it was reported that Brett Favre called Detroit prior to their Week 2 game against Green Bay to help the Lions game plan against his former team. Fox Sports' Jay Glazer, who originally broke the story on Sunday, said that his sources told him "...Favre actually spent over an hour on the phone with Lions coaches, who were connected with Favre by then-team president Matt Millen." So why was ESPN mum on the issue? They were told not to report it, at all:
“Yesterday, FoxSports reported that Brett Favre spent 60 to 90 minutes before the ...
Brett Favre Responds To Jay Glazer Story And Report That He Called Lions At Jets Press Conference
FanIQ Blog —
... ESPN - which originally banned employees from reporting on Favre - is also finally reporting on the story now as well, but only after Favre finally addressed the media today. Either way, that didn't stop one ESPN personality from weighing in before today. Yesterday, Dan LeBatard said on his ESPN radio show ...
Links and stuff. . .
The Other World Wide Leader in Sports —
Some noteworthy reading for you. . .because you don't have anything else to do.
I don't even know how to introduce this. So I won't, just read it. Via With Leather.
ESPN getting their watergate on. Via PFT.
Five keys to guarding a woman in pick-up basketball. Via The Latest Word.
The most important factor in this years World Series. Via Wag.
Don't let your children go to these houses on Halloween. Via Blog of Hilarity.
Bill Walker is not a popular man. Via Basketbawful.
Casey Dick. ...
Mushnick's Friday blowtorch: Mortensen, Caray, Francesa
The Sports Hernia Blog —
... slide. After all, Mortensen concluded, Edwards is the father of two daughters. Huh? Assaulting women is a depends-on-your-point-of-view issue? Had Edwards been the father of two sons he reasonably would be more likely to overlook or even excuse Johnson's conduct? What if he had one of each; would he be on the fence? One needs to be the father of daughters to grasp the gravity of - or even over-react to - such charges? Consider this a verbal wedgie from Mushnick, Mort. Been a banner week for ESPN. On the genius of Chip Caray: When the Rays' Rocco Baldelli singled in a ...
Prepare Thyself: Week Eight
RotoRob —
... I’ll get into interpreting that information in a bit, but the most fascinating aspect of the story is how ESPN handled it. Actually, it didn’t handle it. It avoided the story like an elephant avoids a mouse. ESPN ran scared. An internal memo was sent that the story was not to be reported on. ESPN claimed it couldn’t verify the report. I have no problem with it not being able to verify the report. But why not report that? The story had been put out there by Glazer and FOX. ESPN should have reported on the story and added that it could not confirm it. ...
