NFL still isn't talking about Giants co-owner Steve Tisch

Four weeks ago today, the latest release of the Epstein files implicated Giants co-owner Steve Tisch. Three days later, Commissioner Roger Goodell said the NFL will "look at all the facts."

Since then, the NFL has said nothing.

More facts have emerged, including reporting that contradicts Tisch’s claim of a "brief association" with Jeffrey Epstein and an item from The Athletic that characterizes Tisch's behavior as a potential instance of quid pro quo sexual harassment.

Through it all, the league has referred reporters to Goodell's comments from February 2. That's the message the league recently repeated to Dan Wetzel of ESPN.com.

The league could be waiting for it to all blow over. Alternatively, the NFL could be hoping that the Tisch family will nudge Steve out of the spotlight as the representative of the folks who own the 45-percent share of the Giants.

Regardless, it's not going away. As one high-level employee with another team told PFT on Friday, "Steve has to go."

The league's inaction makes even more clear the double standard between the Personal Conduct Policy that applies to owners and the one that applies to everyone else. Although the league claims owners are held to a higher standard, that rarely happens in practice. (For more, get yourself a copy of my 2022 book, Playmakers.)

Generally speaking, silence, inaction, and distraction have proven (so far) to be a useful strategy for more than a few of the men whose interactions with Epstein cry out for investigation and, possibly, consequences. Few seem to be buying the notion that it's a hoax or a witch hunt or whatever other label would be used to dismiss something that should never be dismissed.

Whatever the outcome, the NFL must investigate Tisch. Until it does, it's impossible for any league investigation of a player or any other non-owner to have a shred of credibility.