Minnesota Vikings quarterback and new Deadspin reader Brett Favre has been de-pantsed by the NFL. Sort of. One report indicated that Favre’s popular ad for Wrangler jeans, which was in heavy rotation for much of the season, did not air at all during NFL telecasts yesterday.

Favre reportedly has been cooperating with the NFL’s investigation of Favre’s alleged transmissions of cell phone messages and penile images to Jennifer Sterger, who was a New York Jets employee at the time Favre played for that team. Sterger, according to one televised ESPN report, has not met with the NFL and has been “uncooperative.” I suspect she’s just playing hard-to-get. No, that’s a joke. Sexual harassment in the workplace is bad. Unless she’s hot. Dammit! Also.

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NMA TV, the geniuses that brought us that bizarre animation of the Tiger Woods scandal, are back to recap the Brett Favre C*cktober saga. Seriously, why aren’t you people calling this by the name it so richly deserves? It’s football season. With c*cks. C*cktober. Do I need to make a PowerPoint for this?

I appreciate that Jennifer Sterger is still finding ways to get people to talk about her. And that, in my opinion, was really what this whole Brett Favre C*CKTOBERFEST™ is about; I don’t see the point of dispensing “justice” like that almost two years after the fact.

That’s not to say that I’m opposed to it. Remember the Chinese adage, “Man who send picture to lady have erection that last forever.” I’m pretty sure that was Chinese. Anyway, Stephen A. Smith, another “sports personality” that won’t seem to go away, has sounded off his take on C*cktoberfest. Yes, we’re really calling it that.

From Smith’s Twitter page:

Just finished commenting about Favre and I’m about to do it again. Let me say this: We can get on Favre about his play, his avoiding…Training camp, and this nauseating love affair some in the media have with him. But to report on him trying to get with some girl is just…Wrong.

More importantly, it’s none of our damn business. What’s more, it epitomizes why athletes hate the media. You don’t dime out the dude…Like this. Especially if you’re a dude — b/c we all know we’ve chased honies from time-to-time in our lives. It’s hypocritical.

And for…Those who’d compare this to Tiger,

THIS IS JUST LIKE TIGER WOODS!

STOP IT RIGHT NOW!

Too late!

Tiger was an issue because a police report was filed following his car accident and…The belief surrounding why it occurred. That’s not the case with Favre. It’s messed up. And although I respect Deadspin, they’re wrong here.

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