Not long after we posted the video of Brett Favre’s triumphant tunnel-jog after the Jets defeated the Patriots to start Week Eleven, the video was removed from YouTube, apparently due to a “copyright claim.”

Initially, we thought that the video had disappeared because Lord Favre could be heard talking like a sailor (as, as the case may be, a Browns G.M.)  But, as it turns out, it could be that the video disappeared because it contains images of one or more league officials apparently celebrating the win with Jets G.M. Mike Tannenbaum and others.

In the video, a portion of which is still available at Deadspin, V.P. of football operations Ray Anderson appears within the first few seconds, walking down the tunnel with a fedora on his head.  He ducks away when he sees the camera.

We’re told that the first guy in the video — whom we’d swear was Red Auerbach wearing a headset if Red Auerbach weren’t presently smoking cigars with Groucho Marx — also is believed to be a league office employee, but we’ve yet to dredge up his name.

Later in the video, the unidentified (so far) league official reappears from the right of the lens and says to Tannenbaum, “Michael, I told ya.”

On the surface, none of this looks all that bad.  But, as we understand it, it’s highly unusual for league officials to celebrate non-Super Bowl wins with the victorious team.  And some league insiders believe that the longer version of the video promptly exited YouTube specifically because of the presence of Anderson and “Auerbach.”