April 16, 2026 • 9 mins
New England Patriots Head Coach Mike Vrabel was pictured with the lead NFL reporter from The Athletic. With both parties married, this stirred some controversy in the sports media world.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm trying to figure this out.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I was having this conversation with our with our fabulous
producer Peyton Highlock, about this controversy over the Patriots coach
Mike Verbal. However, you how do you say that name, Peyton.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I've always heard it Mike Vrabel Vrabel. Well we'll go
with Rabel.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So Mike Vrabel was caught in uh a bit of
a little thing.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
There were some photos released of Mike Vrabel and a
woman by the name of Dianna Rossini, who is a reporter.
I don't know who she worked for. That's what I
haven't figured out yet. NFL Insider.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
No that that's not the Athletic, is it?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh yeah, that's right. She works for the athletic or
she did because she's now done. I don't know if
they fired her, if they told her to step down
or something. But can Why is there this obsession over
these am I Am I missing something here? Is this
some Is it a national crisis? Does Mike Variable does
(01:11):
he define marriage?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Or no? He doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I don't under I don't understand the big deal out
of it. But it's like I go through a billion
news stories every day just prepping for the big show,
and this story keeps popping up and it's now it
annoys me, so I have to talk about it. And
the first thing I'm gonna say is I've been married
(01:37):
twenty six wonderful years, going on twenty seven years to
my beautiful wife, and she is awesome. I love her
and I can't even think about cheating on her. There's
no way. But don't you think, and this is gonna
be very controversial, which is awesome, don't you think that
(01:59):
if you're I'm one who cheats, shouldn't the person that
you're cheating with be hotter than your spouse? Is that
making sense to to you?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Peyton? Does that making any sense?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
That would seem reasonable? You know, like if I'm gonna
if I'm gonna be if I'm gonna be a shooter, you.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Might as well sue big right, It's not you know, Uh,
it's like my greatest my greatest fear is to find
out my wife's having an affair with a guy. First
of all, with a guy with a full head of hair.
That would drive me insane. I'd probably have to kill
the guy, but I'd scalp him, That's what i'd do.
(02:41):
I'd scalp him, and I'd wear his hair to bed that.
There you go, This is what you wanted here.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It is.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Just the picturess guy coming in a bedroom with another
guy scalp on his head.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But I'm looking at this girl, Dianna Russini. Not hot.
I give her.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
A seven on a good day, you know. And I'm
being gracious.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
For the first time I actually looked up Mike Rabel's wife. Yeah,
he might have actually shot bigger.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
What I'm not here to contradict the whole point you're
trying to make.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But no, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
You're saying, Mike Vrabel's wife is not is less hot
than this hussy.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I don't know, you know, it's it's his wife's a
blonde mm hmm. This Russini's brunette. But she might be
a little bit, a little bit better. Really, the best
part of it, the best part of this story is
it says a page six spy tells us the pair
were photographed together.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
A page six spy.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
A spy, are you being serious?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, yeah, I'm a page six spy.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Dun dun, dun, dun, dun, dundun.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Our spy spoted the pair on a rooftop.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Okay, our spy listen, there is no such thing as accidental,
all right.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
They knew it.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They sent some guy out to get these photographs. They
knew exactly what they were doing this. Oh we just
happened to stumble upon this. Now again, I'm not advocating cheating.
It's a terrible thing to do it. You'll crush your
your beloved spouse if you do that, So don't be
a cheater. But I'm looking at this girl.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I don't. I don't. There's no way I would not
be chasing that. I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I wouldn't see myself chasing that either.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
No, I'm just saying see because I think it would.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
First of all, it's bad if your spouse, if you
cheat on your spouse, really bad. Now you break your
spouse's heart because they find out, all right, But it's
even worse if you're the person you cheat with is
nowhere even close as hot as your spouse. Am I
shallow for saying that?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I think?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I am?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Wait a minute, hang on a second, moonbat magic eight ball?
Am I shallow for saying that?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
What is the D? D EI D E? I? What
what's the D?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's I think that's a no. Okay, we have the
moonbat magic eight ball here on the Chris Baker Radio program.
It's just another way for us to fight through the
fog to get the answers to the questions that you need. Well,
(05:53):
everybody's consumed with this story, and I don't get it.
Why does she have to lose her job? Don't have
anything to do with her job? So yeah, so he
you know, apparently there's some suspicious activity with Mike Vrabel.
I don't know if it's true. I don't know if
it's not true. Not gonna make the allegation. But why
is she now out of a job? I don't really
(06:14):
understand that part of it at all.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Now if it's an assistant that is on his football team,
you know. Okay, Now we're talking about a work intimacy situation.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Understandable.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
These people have their own careers, they have their own marriages, right,
let them figure that out.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, let them wreck their own Marrie.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I mean we can, we can, we can talk about
the drama a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But who cares?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Who cares? You don't got to lose your job?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, I don't understand that. Well, you've gotta that's it.
You're fired. Well, why am I fired?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well because people think that you may have fooled around
with Mike Vrabel.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Okay, and she's married to a shake Shack executive, she'll
probably be okay, shack, shake Shack. Yeah, that overpriced burger joint.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Are you kid me? He's a shake Shack executive.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
That's too funny, shake Shack.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I can see him now showing up at the black
tie Affairyer, he is in his tuxiedo. Hi there, I'm
an executive for shake Shack. Okay. I don't think I've
ever been to a shake shack. I've been to a
steak and shake, but I've never even heard of a
shake shack.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, you pay way too much for a burger and fries,
but that you have to buy separately. By the way
you buy your burger and then you also buy your fries.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
It's not a combo. Don't need to get me.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So they're really sticking it to you. Yeah, and it's
in a shack.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Real.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
If your food's so good, why are you in a
shack with.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
A tin roof with it?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh? Shack with a hot tin roof? Man?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Well, okay, whatever, So I had to anyway, I just
I don't know why that it's this story is just
everyone and I do not understand why. I don't care.
Mike Vrabel. No one's gonna fire that guy. He took
the team to the Super Bowl last year. That guy's set.
But she is not that hot. I got her glamour
(08:12):
shot and then I have some regular shots.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
The glamour shot she looks great.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Is the true indication of beauty that the woman who
has the least amount of difference from her glamour shot
to her regular right, regular candid photos. Yeah, that's just
pure natural.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Because I mean, I'm looking at this publicity photo and
you can just look at it, and you can tell
that there was a guy going all right, let's smooth
this out here, let's tighten this up here and there,
and apparently they just gave up on her forehead. It
really wasn't anything they could do about that.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
It took care of the nose. They said, forehead, forget
about it. But everybody's geeking out over it. I don't
know why, but whatever. Look, he's a football guy, right,
football guys. Wow, football guy cheated unbelievable one of the
odds NFL guy Super Bowl rings cheated.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Wow, one of the odds. I'm not condoning it. I'm
just saying that there are women that will throw themselves
at you.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Okay, well that was quite stimulating. I don't know why
people are upset, you know whatever. The chick got fired,
shoes fire good, she got fired. I don't know why
you got fired. And besides, oh, I just noticed something.
The glamour shot forehead is nowhere near the size of
(09:44):
the real forehead and the casual shot. Maybe it's the
way the hair's done.
I'm trying to figure this out.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I was having this conversation with our with our fabulous
producer Peyton Highlock, about this controversy over the Patriots coach
Mike Verbal. However, you how do you say that name, Peyton.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I've always heard it Mike Vrabel Vrabel. Well we'll go
with Rabel.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So Mike Vrabel was caught in uh a bit of
a little thing.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
There were some photos released of Mike Vrabel and a
woman by the name of Dianna Rossini, who is a reporter.
I don't know who she worked for. That's what I
haven't figured out yet. NFL Insider.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
No that that's not the Athletic, is it?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh yeah, that's right. She works for the athletic or
she did because she's now done. I don't know if
they fired her, if they told her to step down
or something. But can Why is there this obsession over
these am I Am I missing something here? Is this
some Is it a national crisis? Does Mike Variable does
(01:11):
he define marriage?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Or no? He doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I don't under I don't understand the big deal out
of it. But it's like I go through a billion
news stories every day just prepping for the big show,
and this story keeps popping up and it's now it
annoys me, so I have to talk about it. And
the first thing I'm gonna say is I've been married
(01:37):
twenty six wonderful years, going on twenty seven years to
my beautiful wife, and she is awesome. I love her
and I can't even think about cheating on her. There's
no way. But don't you think, and this is gonna
be very controversial, which is awesome, don't you think that
(01:59):
if you're I'm one who cheats, shouldn't the person that
you're cheating with be hotter than your spouse? Is that
making sense to to you?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Peyton? Does that making any sense?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
That would seem reasonable? You know, like if I'm gonna
if I'm gonna be if I'm gonna be a shooter, you.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Might as well sue big right, It's not you know, Uh,
it's like my greatest my greatest fear is to find
out my wife's having an affair with a guy. First
of all, with a guy with a full head of hair.
That would drive me insane. I'd probably have to kill
the guy, but I'd scalp him, That's what i'd do.
(02:41):
I'd scalp him, and I'd wear his hair to bed that.
There you go, This is what you wanted here.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It is.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Just the picturess guy coming in a bedroom with another
guy scalp on his head.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But I'm looking at this girl, Dianna Russini. Not hot.
I give her.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
A seven on a good day, you know. And I'm
being gracious.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
For the first time I actually looked up Mike Rabel's wife. Yeah,
he might have actually shot bigger.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
What I'm not here to contradict the whole point you're
trying to make.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But no, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
You're saying, Mike Vrabel's wife is not is less hot
than this hussy.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I don't know, you know, it's it's his wife's a
blonde mm hmm. This Russini's brunette. But she might be
a little bit, a little bit better. Really, the best
part of it, the best part of this story is
it says a page six spy tells us the pair
were photographed together.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
A page six spy.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
A spy, are you being serious?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, yeah, I'm a page six spy.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Dun dun, dun, dun, dun, dundun.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Our spy spoted the pair on a rooftop.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Okay, our spy listen, there is no such thing as accidental,
all right.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
They knew it.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They sent some guy out to get these photographs. They
knew exactly what they were doing this. Oh we just
happened to stumble upon this. Now again, I'm not advocating cheating.
It's a terrible thing to do it. You'll crush your
your beloved spouse if you do that, So don't be
a cheater. But I'm looking at this girl.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I don't. I don't. There's no way I would not
be chasing that. I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I wouldn't see myself chasing that either.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
No, I'm just saying see because I think it would.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
First of all, it's bad if your spouse, if you
cheat on your spouse, really bad. Now you break your
spouse's heart because they find out, all right, But it's
even worse if you're the person you cheat with is
nowhere even close as hot as your spouse. Am I
shallow for saying that?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I think?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I am?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Wait a minute, hang on a second, moonbat magic eight ball?
Am I shallow for saying that?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
What is the D? D EI D E? I? What
what's the D?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's I think that's a no. Okay, we have the
moonbat magic eight ball here on the Chris Baker Radio program.
It's just another way for us to fight through the
fog to get the answers to the questions that you need. Well,
(05:53):
everybody's consumed with this story, and I don't get it.
Why does she have to lose her job? Don't have
anything to do with her job? So yeah, so he
you know, apparently there's some suspicious activity with Mike Vrabel.
I don't know if it's true. I don't know if
it's not true. Not gonna make the allegation. But why
is she now out of a job? I don't really
(06:14):
understand that part of it at all.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Now if it's an assistant that is on his football team,
you know. Okay, Now we're talking about a work intimacy situation.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Understandable.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
These people have their own careers, they have their own marriages, right,
let them figure that out.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, let them wreck their own Marrie.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I mean we can, we can, we can talk about
the drama a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But who cares?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Who cares? You don't got to lose your job?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, I don't understand that. Well, you've gotta that's it.
You're fired. Well, why am I fired?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well because people think that you may have fooled around
with Mike Vrabel.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Okay, and she's married to a shake Shack executive, she'll
probably be okay, shack, shake Shack. Yeah, that overpriced burger joint.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Are you kid me? He's a shake Shack executive.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
That's too funny, shake Shack.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I can see him now showing up at the black
tie Affairyer, he is in his tuxiedo. Hi there, I'm
an executive for shake Shack. Okay. I don't think I've
ever been to a shake shack. I've been to a
steak and shake, but I've never even heard of a
shake shack.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, you pay way too much for a burger and fries,
but that you have to buy separately. By the way
you buy your burger and then you also buy your fries.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
It's not a combo. Don't need to get me.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So they're really sticking it to you. Yeah, and it's
in a shack.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Real.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
If your food's so good, why are you in a
shack with.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
A tin roof with it?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh? Shack with a hot tin roof? Man?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Well, okay, whatever, So I had to anyway, I just
I don't know why that it's this story is just
everyone and I do not understand why. I don't care.
Mike Vrabel. No one's gonna fire that guy. He took
the team to the Super Bowl last year. That guy's set.
But she is not that hot. I got her glamour
(08:12):
shot and then I have some regular shots.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
The glamour shot she looks great.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Is the true indication of beauty that the woman who
has the least amount of difference from her glamour shot
to her regular right, regular candid photos. Yeah, that's just
pure natural.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Because I mean, I'm looking at this publicity photo and
you can just look at it, and you can tell
that there was a guy going all right, let's smooth
this out here, let's tighten this up here and there,
and apparently they just gave up on her forehead. It
really wasn't anything they could do about that.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
It took care of the nose. They said, forehead, forget
about it. But everybody's geeking out over it. I don't
know why, but whatever. Look, he's a football guy, right,
football guys. Wow, football guy cheated unbelievable one of the
odds NFL guy Super Bowl rings cheated.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Wow, one of the odds. I'm not condoning it. I'm
just saying that there are women that will throw themselves
at you.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Okay, well that was quite stimulating. I don't know why
people are upset, you know whatever. The chick got fired,
shoes fire good, she got fired. I don't know why
you got fired. And besides, oh, I just noticed something.
The glamour shot forehead is nowhere near the size of
(09:44):
the real forehead and the casual shot. Maybe it's the
way the hair's done.
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