In case you are not aware, Diana Russini covered the NFL for The Athletic; a pay-to-view website. Mike Vrabel is the head coach of the New England Patriots and was head coach of the Tennessee Titans prior to that. Russini gets paid to cover the NFL and more specifically get scoops before anyone else does. She was by most accounts very good at her job. Another thing that followed Russini was the rumors of inappropriate sexual behavior that she was trading for said scoops. There was always smoke but never fire, well until now.
One piece of information I’d like to pass along. Always tell the truth, you will never remember the story you told or who you told it too.
The information above is what 90-day guy lacked. It cost him. He told five different stories to five different people. The mental gymnastics is causing him mental anguish. I witnessed him contradict himself 3 sperate times in the course of a 3 minute conversation. When called out, he would go to his old standby “I don’t have a good memory.” As Chief would say, “Folks, you know who doesn’t need a good memory? The guy who always tells the truth.”
Back to Vrabel and Russini.
Both are married, but not to each other. They were both photographed together at The Ambiante Hotel in Arizona. The Ambiante is known for being adults only. Also, it’s a romantic getaway where you usually are proposing to your girlfriend or you’ve made the decision you want to have a child in 9 months. I went to the Ambiante hotel with my, at the time, girlfriend. Folks, as mentioned above, we left the room to eat, and to lounge by the pool, but a lot of sex was happening.
Here are the photos of the two of them.
Russini is definitely very good looking but likely doesn’t have much in the brain department.
The photos leaked out and Russini took a page out of the 90-day guy’s playbook. It backfired. I call it the Holy Trinity of Stupidity.
She first insulted everyone’s intelligence by saying it was a chance encounter with another friend. Umm … folks, I have multiple female friends; we do not embrace or interact like that. Also, not on a trip without our significant other/spouse. Then she said that she was there for a girl’s weekend trip. Then when out of lies, she decided to play the sympathy/victim card saying it was lies and she didn’t want to give the story any more oxygen. If you are a loser in life, this is the playbook you follow. Notice, she could have told the truth, and while consequences would have occurred, the story would blow over.
Again, she could have told the truth but didn’t want to risk her marriage so she claimed it was a chance encounter. Then it was a girl’s weekend getaway, (strangely this would be the first girl’s weekend in the history of girl’s weekends with zero photos taken of said girls.) Secondly, going to that particular hotel and calling it girl’s weekend was definitely an interesting choice of words. Just by going there, many would understand it as a girl-on-girl orgy type outing. Definitely a different spin on girls just wanna have fun. Again, bad move. The pulling the victim/sympathy card is the last play in the playbook. Yep, when all else fails, resort to the victim or sympathy card. She is not a victim.
Russini is now seeing her life come apart at the seams. She lost her job reporting and covering New England in the NFL. Bottom line, you cannot be having sex with your source and be non-biased. It’s an ethics issue. A big one. She will land another gig, but she is damaged goods. Her marriage is likely on the rocks. No guy wants to be viewed as your “Monday through Thursday guy” with your side piece taking over on date night/weekends. Oh, she has a son who is four named Mike. Coincidentally, she was photographed with Mike Vrabel 9 months prior to her son’s birth. I would say we have even money odds that the kid may not be his. Even if it is his kid, now you find out he is named after the man your wife cheated with? Ouch. Her friend group is likely eviscerated as well. When she brought up it was a girl’s getaway trip, I have a feeling her group chat was filed with “keep us out of your adultery.” Girls in your friend group are not dumb; they don’t want to be blamed for your marriage likely dissolving. As one of Chief’s friends of the blog said, girls do not want to wreck a home. In the case of Russini, she wrecked hers. It seems as if Mike Vrabel likely dropped 7 figures on a ring or other material things for his current bride and his marriage may be ok. Money can buy happiness, especially when happiness involves likely not working and being a stay-at-home wife.
One thing I saw, while buying a couple items at the grocery store, was a gossip magazine essentially asking why Vrabel has gotten a pass and asserting that double standard exists. Folks, there is no double standard. Having an affair with a women who is not your wife doesn’t mean you get fired as a football coach. Morally bankrupt? Yes. Unemployed? No. He, to his credit, has also stayed silent for the most part, Russini lied over and over. As mentioned earlier, Russini is paid for her ability to break news before it goes mainstream. When you are sleeping with your source, your ethics are compromised.
Back to the point of this blog. If you tell the truth, you have no reason to lie or fabricate a story. It also makes memory easy. You can always recall the truth. Trying to memorizing 5 different stories you told to 5 different people is mentally taxing and emotionally draining.
It was amazing for me to hear 90-day guy, in a 3-minute, one-sided conversation, tell me he couldn’t get ahold of his doctor, then he loved his doctor and said he was the best, then he wanted to be on a stronger pill, then he also wanted off said pill.
He has no issue throwing his brother or his other agent friend in front of the oncoming bus when needed. Oh, when he was called out about his changing story he claimed he is the face of dementia. Like I said earlier, Holy Trinity of Stupidity; insult someone’s intelligence by telling 2 completely different stories, throw other folks under the bus, then play a sympathy/victim card.
It’s why he has no friends and is alone. Ditto for Russini. No one likes the person who throws people innocently under the bus. You want to cheat? Leave your friends out of it. You may be morally bankrupt; they do not need to be involved.
For the 90-day guy, he watches too much TV to know he is a loser. He knows he is alone but doesn’t seem to know why. His version of reality is quite malleable. My explanation for that is easy as I have seen the tire marks on Chief’s back from being thrown under the bus too many times when 90-day guy has been caught manipulating reality and needs to blame someone else.
In the case of Diana Russini, it’s time for you to do some inner searching and reflection. I will say the quiet part out loud, it’s going to hurt. Diana you were just a hot little piece of ass for the football coach. Hence when this news broke, he pulled out all the stops to save his marriage. He may have loved “penetrating you’re A gap or being in your defensive backfield” (hat tip to Troll for that one) but do you really believe you’re the first that’s been his backup piece? Diana, one sentence of a tip for you; you are 43 and still smoking hot, you won’t be that way forever. Try to make right with your Shake Shack Executive husband. This too shall pass. People forgot the late Kobe Bryant cheated on his wife.
The point of this blog should not be forgotten, tell the truth because you will always remember it, you will never remember the lie you told or whom you told it too. When you lie, the problem is you must tell another lie to cover that up, then another one, and so on. If you are the 90-day guy or Diana Russini, you likely have an IQ in the mid-single digits, gentle reminder: there are a lot of people smarter than you, they can quickly figure out 1+1 wasn’t equaling 2. Don’t lie. The benefit of not lying is that you don’t need a good memory when you always tell the truth.
Jake the Snake