Female Reporter Who Was Fired For Exposing Dianna Russini Reveals Several Other Women Had Sex With NFL Staff & “Prominent Head Coach” For Inside Scoops
This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.
Crissy Froyd is on the warpath.
The reporter was axed at USA Today Sports after publicly criticizing Dianna Russini in April, but has popped back up at the Daily Mail.
She wrote a piece for the publication under the following title:
“I was fired for exposing the NFL’s dirtiest sex secret. Now, I’m revealing everything… and naming names.”
Froyd expressed disappointment over reporters giving Mike Vrabel a pass when he spoke to the media on Wednesday.
“When the NFL’s Mike Vrabel, head coach of the New England Patriots, stepped up to the microphones to face reporters on Wednesday, I held my breath,” she wrote.
She wouldn’t learn anything that she didn’t already know, however.
“It appears that no one is particularly interested in getting to the bottom of this story,” Froyd claimed.
“Back in the New England Patriot news conference room the one question was never asked. Instead, the reporters danced around the topic.”
Crissy Froyd Calls Out NFL’s Sex Trade
Froyd then went on to accuse NFL media of “corruption,” asserting that Russini is hardly the only reporter to “trade sex for stories.”
She also claimed to have been aware of Vrabel and Russini’s relationship from 2020.
“Around 2020, I was told by a well-known national sports reporter in explicit terms that Vrabel, then coach of the Tennessee Titans, and Russini were carrying on a secret relationship. It was one of the first rumors that I heard when I began my NFL reporting career. I’d hear many more.
“I’ve also been told by at least half a dozen female reporters that they have had sex with NFL staff and, in one case, a prominent NFL head coach, while they were covering the team. It takes a high degree of trust to make such a confession, so I assume that many other similar stories go untold.
“Gossip about these illicit reporter-NFL employee relationships is even more prominent. Over my career the number of stories has numbered in the tens – and they have involved some of the most prominent female sports reporters and NFL coaches in the country.”
Froyd noted that she has been a target herself.
“I have even been propositioned myself,” she continued. “These conversations typically start innocently enough. A female reporter may be invited by a coach to a baseball game – but at the last moment, he offers to meet up beforehand at his hotel room.”
She also disclosed one trick coaches use in their pursuit of reporters.
“Or a coach will remark on what a journalist wore the last time they meet and request that she wear something similar the next time they’re together,” she wrote.
Vrabel initially denied having an affair with Russini. While he has stopped short of confessing outright, his words and actions have made it pretty clear.
