Favre faces more allegations from his New York days

[Poiuyt]

This is about to get worse. It appears Jenn Sterger wasn't the only woman who received unwanted and inappropriate text messages from Brett Favre while he played for the Jets. Favre also pursued two team massage therapists, according to one of the women.

The woman (who wishes to remain anonymous for now — we'll call her "Mandy") worked as a massage therapist for the team for a couple years, but she says never had an incident with a player until No. 4 showed up at training camp at Hofstra University, where the Jets still worked out in 2008. "He was on the table next to mine," she tells me. "He was looking at my ass the whole time while I worked on another player. He was ... ogling me."

The woman who was massaging Brett that day (massage therapist No. 2, or "Lindsay") exchanged numbers with him. (Mandy claims it's common for players to take the numbers of team-contracted massage therapists should they need additional rubdowns off campus. Yeah, I know. Please don't.)

Lindsay received a text message from Favre, according to Mandy. Lindsay assumed it was for a massage but quickly realized Brett was asking for more. He invited both Lindsay and Mandy back to his hotel room. Mandy claims that the texts became increasingly inappropriate ("just nasty stuff"), but she adds that Brett did apologize when he found out she was married.

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http://deadspin.com/5659474/sources-two-more-women-who-worked-with-jets-received-lewd-texts-from-favre

And the Vikings are hoping this is the guy who'll help them get a new stadium?

[joeybee12]

1. Was he doing this while his wife of 14 years was undergoing treatment for

breast cancer?

[PCIntern]

3. He was not masturbating...

so Christine O'Donnell wouldn't be too upset...he was 'on the move'.

[Forkboy]

2. Sounds like a horny Viking.

Yeah yeah...work with me, people!

[mix]

4. Is there a criminal angle to this?

Sending unsolicited pictures of his penis is legal?

This is sexual harassment.

[Poiuyt]

5. This former sexual harassment investigator says yes

Brett Favre's Explicit Photos Unleash Legal Storm

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So what if he did, some nitwits are already asking. Well, I'll tell you, if he did and it can be proven that he did, the old gunslinger is in trouble. He may well face a suspension and miss actual games. These aren't two consenting adults bound only by rampant libido, and this wasn't a bar pick-up gone awry. In both of those situations, I'd agree with you. The NFL, the Jets and the media wouldn't have much reason to pry into the details of what went down. But since Favre and Sterger were de facto employees of the Jets, this situation needs to be investigated.

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Favre is completely different (from Tiger Woods). His indiscretions are inextricably intertwined with his sport, his league, and his team. You may hate for the media to pry into athlete's private lives, but Brett Favre's alleged acts aren't really private at all. They're actionable under the law and directly implicate football. Based on the allegations, a person in a position of power tried to take advantage of that power to encourage someone to do something that they otherwise wouldn't have done. That's a story as old as time. And given the continuing sexual fault line in our society, it's an incredibly relevant story. Indeed, ESPN's abject failure to aggressively cover this case -- contrast this with the Ines Sainz case, for instance -- represents the latest evidence, as if you needed any, of exactly how much the network is in bed with its broadcast partners and the athletes who make the network billions. Unlike Tiger Woods, this story doesn't just exist to sell magazines and provide salacious headlines. It's legit, it matters. Unlike Tiger, Brett Favre's pursuit of sex from a fellow employee goes to the very heart of our modern day sexual fault line and, potentially, offers real consequences.

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http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/10/08/brett-favres-explicit-photos-unleash-legal-storm/

[mix]

6. This situation seems incredibly serious from a legal standpoint.

This is the land of infamy, a career capstone.