Oct 22nd 2008 12:08PM by Shane Bacon (author feed)
Filed under: Jets, Lions, AFC EastContrary to prior URGENT news, ESPN has decided to report that Brett Favre in contact with the Lions before the Week 2 game against the Packers.

In a press conference today, Favre admitted to talking with Matt Millen before the Lions-Packers game, but said he made no mention of a game plan or how to attack his old team. While Fox’s Jay Glazer was breaking the story, with pretty much every other news outlet joining him, ESPN remained mute on the story that has been going on since Sunday, even sending out an internal memo telling all employees to avoid the story because, “the report is NOT TRUE.”

Now, on ’s live telecast this morning, Sage Steele brought up the fact that there was communication between the two sides, the first mention of the story since it broke. Yesterday, ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said that while they don’t mind reporting stories that other news organizations break, they couldn’t get confirmation on this one.
“Like all reports that come in, we gave careful consideration to this one,” Krulewitz said. “We couldn’t confirm it. It’s obviously a judgment call. Given the nature of the story, we needed to bring a lot of sensitivity to our reporting and do what we felt was the most responsible thing.”Continue Reading