When Brett Favre was fined $50,000 by the NFL, I’d hoped this story would be gone.  I am ready and willing to move on from this whole event, but things just keep getting worse and worse for Favre and his former employers the New York Jets.  When the allegations were made by Jenn Sterger, two Jets masseuses spoke up to say that they’d also received improper texts from Favre.  These two women, Christina Scavo and Shannon O’Toole, are now suing Favre and the Jets for sexual harassment to get their justice.

To make matters worse, the NFL’s light penalty actually has the originator of this whole case, Jenn Sterger, ready to go back to court, too.  Scavo and O’Toole cooperated fully with the NFL investigation, and also have a good case for sexual harassment lawsuit as, after going to their boss Lisa Ripi with the allegations, they were summarily dismissed from their massage therapist duties with the Jets.  (Ripi is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit.)

If I was Brett Favre, I’d just open the check book.  At this point, I’m willing to take up a collection to pay these women off just so they’ll stop coming forward to get money or redemption or whatever it is they want from Favre and the Jets three years after the incidents happened.  I know that sexual harassment is a terrible thing, and getting fired after reporting sexual harassment is even worse, but I just want all this crap to go away.

I’m tired of hearing about Brett Favre trying to get his New York freak on, and I know I’m not alone.  I just want this all to either go away or stop being newsworthy.  (And yes, I know I’m adding to the problem by writing about it, but this will be the last time I do until something crazy happens.)

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