Idiots don’t understand the difference between helping a church do a PR campaign vs protecting pedophiles. It’s not the same thing, and nobody “protected” any pedophiles, they actually helped push the prosecution. It’s no different than any business that runs a PR campaign after one or more of their employees does some shite that paints the company in a bad light, much like the NFL/NBA with all the domestic violence cases.

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Posted by Demps

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Posted on 1/12/26 at 9:32 am to Soggymoss

Then why did they fight to keep it out of public view?

https://africa.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43676192/emails-detail-saints-assistance-new-orleans-archdiocese-sexual-abuse-scandal

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The records, which the Saints and church had long sought to keep out of public view, reveal team executives played a more extensive role than previously known in a public relations campaign to mitigate fallout from the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The emails shed new light on the Saints' foray into a fraught topic far from the gridiron, a behind-the-scenes effort driven by the team's devoutly Catholic owner who has long enjoyed a close relationship with the city's embattled archbishop. They also showed how various New Orleans institutions -- from a sitting federal judge to the local media -- rallied around church leaders at a critical moment. Among the key moments, as revealed in the Saints' own emails: • Saints executives were so involved in the church's damage control that a team spokesman briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city's top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse. The call, the spokesman said, "allowed us to take certain people off" the list. • Team officials were among the first people outside the church to view that list, a carefully curated, yet undercounted roster of suspected pedophiles. The disclosure of those names invited civil claims against the church and drew attention from federal and state law enforcement. • The team's president, Dennis Lauscha, drafted more than a dozen questions that Archbishop Gregory Aymond should be prepared to answer as he faced reporters. • The Saints' senior vice president of communications, Greg Bensel, provided fly-on-the-wall updates to Lauscha about local media interviews, suggesting church and team leaders were all on the same team. "He is doing well," Bensel wrote as the archbishop told reporters the church was committed to addressing the crisis. "That is our message," Bensel added, "that we will not stop here today." The emails obtained by AP sharply undercut assurances the Saints gave fans about the public relations guidance five years ago when they asserted they had provided only "minimal" assistance to the church. The team went to court to keep its internal emails secret.

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Posted by Giantkiller

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Posted on 1/12/26 at 9:34 am to Patfic15

Wait, did we lose again? Who's even paying attention at this point? Find something else to do with your life. Until someone else owns this team, we're terminally fricked.

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Posted by iwyLSUiwy

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Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:00 pm to Soggymoss

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Idiots don’t understand the difference between helping a church do a PR campaign vs protecting pedophiles. It’s not the same thing, and nobody “protected” any pedophiles, they actually helped push the prosecution.

I mean there have been numerous reports that people with the Saints, safe to assume Gayle, saw the list and had a say in which names were removed. Some of the supposed pedophiles. It's not that big of stretch to make that claim and it'd be pretty naive to think that she didn't have any say.

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Posted by Silverfoxx

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Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:52 pm to iwyLSUiwy

The people who are protecting billionaire Gayle and this who thing are weirdos and are compromised.

Soggymoss why are you so passionate about the semantics of this is beyond me.

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