Mark Gastineau suing ESPN for $25 million over viral Brett Favre video
Jets nice Mark Gastineau is suing ESPN over its promotion and airing of a clip of the famed “Sack Change” member confronting Brett Favre in 2023 on the Chicago Sports activities Spectacular as a part of the “30 For 30: The New York Sack Change” documentary.
The now-viral second confirmed Gastineau angrily confronting the ex-QB for “taking a dive” again in 2002, when Giants nice Michael Strahan broke Gastineau’s single-season sack file.
Gastineau, who’s looking for $25 million in damages within the go well with, contends he was portrayed “maliciously false” within the clip.
Gastineau claimed within the lawsuit, seen by The Put up, that the encounter with Favre had been included by ESPN “with out his consent or permission” and due to his inaccurate portrayal he “has been attacked on social media with ridicule, scorn and contempt.”
Gastineau’s lawyer, Christopher J. Cassar, reiterated that time to The Put up.
“They are going to be held accountable for his or her malicious conduct and pay for misrepresentation of Mark. The Defendant deliberately broken Mark’s popularity for rankings for ESPN and we intend to carry them accountable,” Cassar wrote in an e mail.
The previous Jet, who was inducted into the franchise’s Ring of Honor in 2012, stated within the go well with that ESPN “deliberately and maliciously didn’t publish” a key a part of the encounter with Favre.
“Throughout this non-public encounter November 18, 2023 between Mark Gastineau and Brett Favre, Gastineau was visibly upset and emotional with Favre; nonetheless each Mark Gastineau and Brett Favre shook arms on the graduation of this dialog,” the lawsuit states.
The edited clip that was featured in each the promotion of the “30 For 30: The New York Sack Change” and the precise documentary, confirmed the notably icy encounter with Favre trying to shake Gastineau’s hand when he first approached him.
A visibly upset Gastineau instructed Favre “you damage me” repeatedly whereas confronting him and the scene ends with a handler attempting to redirect the Packers nice away from the scenario.
ESPN had no remark when reached by The Put up.
In line with Cassar, Gastineau had not been conscious that the encounter had been filmed or utilized in any promotion or the ultimate minimize of the movie.
Gastineau additionally claimed that he signed onto the doc in January 2024 and as a part of the settlement he had approval for any modifications that have been to be made.
Favre defended Gastineau following the discharge of the clip and on a submit on X understood the place the Jets nice had been coming from.
Favre described the confrontation as “not the type of second that must be filmed and launched” and labeled it a “non-public second of frustration.”
