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Over the weekend we saw the Netflix documentary, “Untold: The Fall of Favre”. The film recounts the iconic football career of Hall of Famer Brett Favre and his highly publicized off-field behavior.
As a die-hard San Francisco 49er, facing Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers in the regular season and the playoffs would give me sleepless nights. I would prefer the Cowboys to the Packers because, in my opinion, Favre has a stronger arm than Troy Aikman.
This writer’s takeaway and learning from the film is that when a professional athlete’s fame and fortune reach iconic and legendary proportions, any alleged indiscretion and transgression is swept under the rug. The fans and supporters look the other way and pretend it didn’t happen. You will see and hear, “Boys will be boys”.
In Jenn Sterger’s case, the media was portraying her as someone who was “selling sex.”
Jenn Sterger was a sports journalist and TV host, not someone who was “selling sex.” In 2008 while working as a game-day host for the New York Jets, she was allegedly sent unsolicited sexually explicit messages and photos by Brett Favre, who was the team’s quarterback at the time. These messages included voicemails and inappropriate photos.
Sterger did not solicit this attention, nor did she publicize the incident at the time. The story only came to light in 2010 through a Deadspin investigation, which obtained the materials and published them without her consent. Sterger has consistently said she never wanted to be part of a scandal. She just wanted to work in sports media.
Another learning and takeaway was the text messages and voice mails allegedly from Brett Favre. You can’t make those up. Sterger didn’t fabricate them.
When professional athletes like Favre are put on a pedestal, reality is blurred and there is no right and wrong. Sterger emotionally narrates her account of what transpired, what she went through and endured, and the consequences.
She said, “I was never treated like a person. I was just a headline.”
The documentary gives Sterger a platform that was denied in the past.
She exposed media double standards when it comes to male professional athletes as Sterger also said “My life is ruined and he goes to the Hall of Fame.”
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