Jeff Pearlman asks why Jay Glazer gets a free pass for his intimate relationships with sources
Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images / The Press Box Chronicles with Jeff Pearlman For 18 years, Jay Glazer has hosted an annual pool party for NFL head coaches at the league’s owners meetings, and Jeff Pearlman wants to know why nobody has ever had a problem with it. On a recent TikTok, the veteran sportswriter — who has been one of the more thoughtful outside voices on the Dianna Russini story since it broke — responded to a conversation Jemele Hill was having about Glazer and the industry’s selective outrage over source relationships. When he first weighed in back last month, before Russini had resigned and before the extent of her relationship with Mike Vrabel had fully come out, Pearlman framed the situation as a painful double standard while stopping short of saying her career should be over.
He’s not stopping short anymore. “I think Dianna Russini shouldn’t work anymore in this business, I do. I think it’s bullsh*t,” Pearlman said.
“But, man, do we make allowances for men. We make so many allowances for men. Jay Glazer is the perfect example.
You know why Jay Glazer isn’t having sex with the athletes? Because he’s a heterosexual male and he covers men, otherwise, he’s doing anything but. ‘Hey, come to my BBQ.
Hey, let me work you out. Hey, you’re my buddy. Hey, let’s hang out.