Dianna Russini Fallout: Crissy Froyd stands by her tweets after getting fired by USA Today

Dianna Russini just keeps leaving wreckage behind her. Alright, this one isn’t really her fault directly, but it involves her scandals so naturally, she’s looped into this whole thing.

A story that already had the NFL media world looking like a complete clown show somehow got even messier on Thursday, when USA Today cut ties with Crissy Froyd after Froyd publicly went after Russini following her resignation from The Athletic. Instead of backing off, Froyd doubled down and made it clear she has zero regrets about any of it.

That is the part that really jumps off the page here. Froyd did not issue some polished apology or try to clean it up once the heat came down. She basically told everyone she said what she said, meant every word of it, and if people wanted to talk about it, her inbox was open.

Froyd’s Tweet bashing Dianna Russini:

I’m sure you were told to submit this or that you’d get fired instead.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. We know who you really are and what you’ve been up to for years. It does so much detriment to women in sports who have done things the right way. https://t.co/dswaHZjIHL

— Crissy Froyd (@crissy_froyd) April 14, 2026

Froyd’s Tweet after being let go by USA Today:

I would like to acknowledge the statements put out about me recently and that I am also no longer with USA TODAY SMG.

I regret zero of what I said and stand beside it. If you want to talk, my messages are open. My email is operative, too.

I feel I've been very transparent and…

— Crissy Froyd (@crissy_froyd) April 16, 2026

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Froyd’s public statement after getting fired only poured more gas on the fire.

She said she regrets nothing, feels she did nothing wrong, and openly called out the double standard at USA Today. Her point was simple: Nancy Armour was allowed to publish a column about Dianna Russini and what this situation means for women in sports media, but Froyd’s own comments on her personal social media as a freelancer were apparently a bridge too far.

That is where this thing gets funny, because Froyd is basically saying the quiet part out loud. If the company is comfortable running opinion on the situation through one voice, but suddenly clutches its pearls when another person says it with more backbone, then yeah, people are going to notice.

Froyd even framed the whole thing like a warning to others not to stay quiet just because it might cost them. Maybe it turns you into a martyr, maybe it doesn’t, but in her mind, this was worth it.

And honestly, whether people agree with her or not, that is a much stronger stance than the usual media routine of lobbing a grenade and then hiding behind some PR-approved statement once consequences show up.

The bigger takeaway is that the Dianna Russini situation still is not going away. Russini resigning did not put a lid on this. It just opened another lane for more people to start saying what they think, and now that has cost someone else a job too.

That is how ugly this thing has gotten. Dianna Russini was already at the center of one of the messiest media scandals in football, and now the fallout is spreading to anybody willing to speak too loudly about it.