Blaming anyone else for his troubles is business as usual for New York Jets Quarterback Brett Favre.  Either his receivers stink, the team hates him or the devil gave him vicodin, nothing is ever The Elderly Hillbilly's own doing.

Sunday, through BFF Peter King, The Elderly Hillbilly blasted Fox Sports saying that stories surrounding him calling the Detroit Lions for the expressed purpose of giving away all the Packers secrets were "BS" and he doesn't know where it came from.

Fox reporter Jay Glazer, a respected journalist, cited sources from within the Detroit organization (or disorganization) for the story.  The Hillbilly is close to former Lions President Matt Millen.  Millen was still drawing a Lions paycheck when Favre made the alleged call.

So far, this is a huge he said-he said.

Former Packer Leroy Butler claims this is the tip of the cheese tray.

More important, the world wide leader has disavowed any knowledge of Favre's actions to the point of totally ignoring the story.

This may be finally be a case where the special interests have won out over journalists doing their job.  For instance, if Glazer has no relationship with Favre, he's more likely to run with the story.  Chris Mortensen, who seems to be Favre's go to guy when he wants to retirement roulette, may want to protect his relationship with Favre by turning off his cell phone for a few hours.  And ESPN, which is scooped on a regular basis by Fox, may want to just let the story run out the cycle given the fact that no one who wants to remain in the NFL would ever admit this to be true and use their name in the process.

The interesting thing in all of this is Fox, who owns the rights to the NFC is bold enough to report this stuff.  ESPN, which holds the rights to Monday night football, does not.  Or, Glazer, who doesn't have the notoriety of either King or Mortensen, just digs deeper and faster.

The bottom line: Either ESPN is asleep at the switch or Glazer is going to get sued for liable.  I'll take the former.  It goes a long way to perpetuate the theory that ESPN has it's own agenda and generally tries to protect both itself and its' friends from harm. That's not the best way to run a railroad, especially when the passengers begin to notice.