[vrwinger]

Exactly how was this "covered-up"? No charges were filed.

Had she gone to the press with her story, I guarantee the papers would have printed it, since both the Inquirer and the Daily News (same company) relish painting the Eagles and their management in the most unflattering portraits as possible. Nothing Joe Banner would have said would have "covered it up."

Same with the Sport Talk Radio in the market. WIP 610-AM carried the Eagles games a few years ago, and when they lost the broadcast rights to an FM station, they have been no friend to the Eagles management. They would have run full speed with a Player/Front Office scandal.

[Poohbah]

There may have been some intimidation from the civic side--i.e., her chain of command.

These "public-private partnerships" where the public assumes all the liability and the team owners accept all the profit breed these kinds of problems like nothing else out there.