"Your QB Sucks!" Dianna Russini Bodycam Footage Released Where She Name Drops Vikings HC Kevin O'Connell To Successfully Get Out Of A Ticket (Which Contradicts The NYT FaceTime Claim)
And so begins the slow summer trickle of Dianna Russini tidbits. Just in time for NFL training camp too! Of course I wouldn't expect you to sit through a 7 minute video in the year of our Lord 2026, so here are the highlights below. Definitely a way different story than the one she told during a previous interview. And doesn't match up at all with what the NYT published either. Hmmm. So much for the sanctity of Big J journalism I guess?
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(PFT) - Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. As it turns out, Dianna Russini didn’t FaceTime an NFL head coach for help in getting out of a ticket for texting while driving. She claimed she did during a February segment with the Stugotz and Company radio show. Her anecdote was mentioned at the outset of last week’s lengthy article in the New York Times, her former employer.
After the officer approaches her car, Russini says, “I’m an NFL reporter, and I just broke that Sean McDermott got fired from the Bills. And that I what I was just sending to send [sic], a tweet. I was gonna pull over, because I have to make calls. I know you don’t care, but I just wanted you to know my reason why.” The officer says, “Obviously you were on your phone for a while. . . . I understand you’ve got a job.”
At first glance maybe this doesn't seem like that big a deal. But as Russini Rabbit Hole expert Tony Farmer pointed out, there's a troubling pattern of misleading lies from her piling up.
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-Dianna admitted lying to Josh Allen about her MVP vote.
-Dianna told PFT commenter “I purposely lied to you…” when she told him Lamar Jackson was “100%” winning MVP after personally voting for Lamar and 2 days before awards were announced.
-It now appears Dianna Russini was not fully honest about a FaceTime call with an NFL coach.
-It appears (imo) somebody lied to Page Six about the “Daring rescue” of an elderly man and dog Russini was supposedly involved in, the bodycam footage I obtained earlier this summer painted a much different story. The truth has been slippery in this story for some reason.
And then there's the part where the NYT allegedly got this whole story wrong in their scathing article about her too. How could they be so wrong about their own employee?
Listen on a device with quality speakers: OFFICER: Do you have an updated driver’s license? RUSSINI: You know, I drove from Foxboro this mor— Oh here’s (inaudible)… And I drove in the snow 5 and a half hours. The Pats had just beat the Texans 28-16 the night before. I checked Russini’s stories from The Athletic and she didn’t file any Pats related stories that weekend. Her most recent story before the McDermott firing was about the Falcons and Packers. She didn't file a story the day before. With her 5.5 hour timeline, Russini would have left Foxboro at 4:10 a.m. Foxboro is more like 3.5-4 hours from Ridgewood, but 5.5 hours fits in very snowy conditions (remember that Texans weather game?). The NYT said Russini's kids were in the car. There is no evidence of that in the video (although it’s theoretically possible they’re out of view). Dianna never said her kids were in the car for this. The New York Times added that and had 2 months to get this bodycam footage to verify and didn't. The NYT may be in legal hot water with Russini considering they wrote that detail without doing basic due diligence to verify it. Credit to Adam Herberts and The Center Square for the footage.
I don't know what it means. But it's provocative. It gets the people going.
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The pageviews don't lie. And for anyone who is interested still pulling at the thread a little more, there was also this weird ass exchange with KOC that just resurfaced too.
Most importantly though, do NOT shoot the messenger here. I'm just trying to rack up a few innocent clicks to close out the end of the month okay? I'm certainly not offended she used her connections to get out of a ticket. If only we could all be so lucky.
HOWEVA, I will say it is pretty odd seeing all these repeated backslides for someone who previously portrayed themselves as the bastion of Big J journalistic integrity. Such a shame really. Who watches The Watchmen, ya know? Can't imagine these Dianna drips are gonna go away anytime soon either. Looks like it's gonna be a long hard NFL season for us all.
You hate to see it.