USA Today – Other than its decidedly 21st-century angles, Sean Salisbury’s story is timeless: Show spur-of-the-moment stupidity, deny it in hopes it will be forgotten — then find it follows you around instead. “I was ashamed, and I didn’t want to say anything,” says Salisbury, who was an NFL quarterback for eight years and an ESPN NFL analyst for 12. “I thought it would go away and let my ego get in the way. Since then, I’ve beat myself up about it more than 10 baseball bats could. A stupid mistake can cost you, and this has really cost me. I should have been having this conversation a long time ago.” But what Salisbury, 46, is admitting simply substantiates what’s already an urban legend on the Internet: that he took cellphone photos of his private parts and showed them. Yuck. Salisbury says it only happened once — “a sophomoric mistake” in a Connecticut bar in 2006 — for which ESPN suspended him for a week for then-unspecified reasons…Now, Salisbury feels better from having had anger-management therapy — “I needed help. I had a lot of inner anger for years.”

Sean, Sean, Sean… Did we learn nothing from Watergate?  When you’ve gotten outed for doing something stupid, the cover up is invariably worse than the crime.  That’s what did in Nixon, ruined Clinton, almost wrecked Marv Albert’s career.  Look, Americans are a forgiving people.   We know we’re all dirtbags who do stupid things when we’re drunk.  It’s why our ancestors were kicked out of every decent country in the world.    And we know that when you’re famous, chicks are always texting you demanding you send them pictures of your junk.  Hell, I get it all the time and you can only say “No” so many times.  So just ‘fess up and stop hiding behind this “anger management” baloney.  Just admit a chick wanted to see your Babe Tackle so you sent it.  Believe me, it’ll help resurrect your image with all of us.  Because we appreciate that like the wise philosopher Mike Tyson said, “We all do dumb shit when we’re fucked up.”