NFL Media VP and executive editor David Eaton has resigned after it was discovered he engaged in hundreds of sexually explicit conversations with porn stars and escorts on Twitter.
via NYDN:
“Last night David Eaton tendered his resignation from NFL Media effective immediately,” NFL Network said in a statement Wednesday.
Deadspin first reported Eaton’s resignation and his Twitter history. The outlet last week published screenshots of several Twitter messages before Eaton scrubbed his account clean of the conversations and eventually deleted it entirely.
The interactions ranged from racy comments at escorts and former escorts to a conversation about literature with an account that features a topless woman as an avatar.
Eaton’s Twitter exchanges were talked about frequently among NFL Network employees, according to Deadspin.
Eaton’s social media cleanse came just one day after NFL Network suspended Ike Taylor, Marshall Faulk and Heath Evans, who were each named in a sexual harassment lawsuit by former NFL Network wardrobe stylist Jami Cantor.
On Monday, Deadspin also reported that Marc Watts, who worked as the network’s director of talent development for nearly four years, allegedly made sexually disparaging remarks about women during his tenure with the company. Watts left NFL Network in October 2015.
Eaton joined the NFL in 2011 from ABC News and oversaw news operations for the NFL Network and NFL.com.
Check out some of his racy tweets below
