Now that Vikings quarterback Brett Favre has been interviewed by the league office, the investigation regarding his interactions with former Jets in-house sideline reporter Jenn Sterger is far from over.
As MDS pointed out, NFL V.P. of security Milt Ahlerich wants to interview A.J. Daulerio of Deadspin. Also, as Brian Murphy of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports, the league still wants to interview Sterger.
Amid multiple reports from over the weekend that Sterger won’t be cooperating with the NFL, we reported that, officially, she had yet to give a definitive answer.
Sterger’s newly-hired lawyer, Joseph Conway, has told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that the league has contacted him regarding an interview, and that Sterger is “considering” the league’s request.
If she has determined that a “proper resolution” to the matter entails filing a lawsuit, she has no reason to cooperate with the league. Anything she says during an interview would become her official comment on the matter, and anything she says in the context of the lawsuit would be compared to everything she said during the interview in the hopes of finding a contradiction that then would be used to paint her broadly and generally as a liar.
Meanwhile, we still can’t rule out the possibility that a settlement has been reached between Favre and Sterger, and that this public back-and-forth is part of the ruse aimed at ensuring no one believes that a settlement was reached.
Sure, it may sound like rank speculation -- but smart lawyers who hope to cover the tracks of a settlement would be handling it exactly this way.