Did Brett Favre send Jenn Sterger pictures of his junk?
Yesterday, Deadspin.com broke what could potentially be the biggest off-field NFL story to come along in a while, about one of its biggest stars. If you haven’t seen it yet, here is the post in question, which presents a fairly ugly picture of Brett Favre sexually harassing Jenn Sterger, a former sideline reporter with the Jets. At the time of the alleged incident in 2008, Favre was playing QB for New York, meaning he and Sterger were co-workers. And that takes the issue from just a private instance of indiscretion to one of legally actionable harassment, which could obviously come with serious ramifications. Watch the video in the linked article, but be warned, there are photos of male genitalia at the the end. In it, Deadspin presents MySpace screen shots, voicemail messages, and pictures of someone’s – purportedly Favre’s – penis. The initial contact came to Sterger via a phony Myspace account under the name “Screaming Lord Byron” (a David Bowie reference) and escalated from there,