N.F.L. Says It Will Look Into Steve Tisch’s Ties to Epstein

The National Football League said on Monday that it would look into the New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch’s involvement with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after the connection between the two men was revealed in documents released by the Justice Department.

“We are going to look at all the facts, we are going to look at the context of those, we are going to try to understand that,” Roger Goodell, the league’s commissioner, said at a news conference in San Jose, Calif., days before the Super Bowl. Mr. Goodell, though, stopped short of saying the N.F.L. would open a formal investigation into Mr. Tisch’s actions at this point.

Mr. Tisch, 76, was one of the prominent new names made public in the millions of documents the Department of Justice made public on Friday in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The documents showed the two men communicating frequently in 2013, with Mr. Epstein seeking to connect Mr. Tisch with multiple women. Their exchanges were often crude, with Mr. Epstein often describing women by their ethnicity or anatomy, and Mr. Tisch on more than one occasion using slang terms to ask if a woman Mr. Epstein wanted to connect him with was a sex worker.

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