The first thing I saw was four guys in a big shower. I was unknowingly standing next to the shower exit and of course, two linemen cruised by me with nothing on. Yes, I was that excited. At the Burning Tree Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, women are only allowed to visit the club when? Now, one of the first all-men gentlemen's clubs in America was the Schuylkill Fishing Company of Philadelphia, a club that played a minor role in Revolutionary history when what happened there? 2023 Vimeo.com, Inc. All rights reserved. It reminds me of a debutante waking up in last night's party dress, reeking of beer. He meant on the bed. others. One day, she went unannounced to see an editor of the Boston Herald and asked for a job. She is an American humorist and sportswriter who now does reviews for Publishers Weekly and writes for a variety of publications, including the Dallas Observer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, USA Today, and Sports Illustrated. She was a travel writer and at the end of a marriage, and we were traipsing around the Four Corners area. Gordon Robertson, locker room guard, stops Robin Herman from entering the Chicago Black Hawks locker room (January 1975). But by then I had gotten to know the sportswriters and broadcasters, and the Star-Telegram offered me a jobin sportstyping in scores and answering the phone. Prove to them you know your stuff, and you will have proven to them why you belong there. Someone has come out early for batting practice. But on top of it being my first foray behind the red door, I was scared because of who I was interviewing: a superstar with a surly streak. Since I watched hockey as a kid, it was always this way.. She is currently involved in a court case to allow women reporters in sports locker rooms. It was after the Iron Bowl, the big game against Auburn. Two Patriots had complained earlier to James Oldham, the team's director of media relations, and to Pat Sullivan, the team's general manager, that they believed Olson was, in the players' words, "a looker," someone who stood around the locker room not interviewing anyone. I started out in the office, taking scores on the phone and taking heat from the guys. Those memories dont come cheap, of course. I'm sure he's been naked in the room where I was at some time. And I gained 40 pounds. I think about what it would be like to have them asking me every day, "Well, how about that really thrown-together graph there at the top?" The players were roaming around in towels or standing by their lockers speaking into digital recordersno one was smacking towels on butts, no one was making soap jokes. "That's possible," he replied. He said he would have me thrown out physically. The internet, magazines, and plenty of small family-owned businesses in the Philadelphia area offer the same experience. Samsung Pdf. And blocked by virtue of being a woman Melissa Ludtke's landmark. Except she. We both approached the front desk, where the clerk sided with the guard, saying I could remain for 10 more minutes, but only if I stayed out of the central lobby and remained "mobile." I've never been on any campaign to debunk the myth that testicles are somehow inherent to a full understanding of balls. It was very business-like. Guys just walk around naked, mostly, says Arizona Republic sports columnist Paola Boivin. TAFOYA: Well, you have to maneuver around that. I stopped myself because he might not take it right. Eagles rookie Jordan Davis explains biggest culture shock coming from Georgia to Philly, Former Eagle Chris Long praises Philly culture, sends message to current athletes, Rumor: Eagles locker room sold on Jalen Hurts, should be good for next week, DeVonta Smith explains McDonalds breakfast ritual to GQ, follows in Donovan McNabbs footsteps, Weekend Rips: The Declaration of Independence is one of many reminders of European inferiority, Sixers Have Shown Interest in Kings Stretch Big, Nemanja Bjelica, Eagles place 4 players on Reserve/COVID-19 list. That sort of collegiality isnt obsolete in locker rooms, but real-time publishing certainly ups the danger of such humor being viewed out of context. He remembered my chatting him up at lunch on Media Day, when I sat next to him and Brian Cushing and asked why the punt coverage was so porous with players not staying in their lanes, and how he was going to improve his turn over margin. Women did not get equal access to post-game locker room interviews until a federal court decision in 1978. Robin Herman, who as a hockey reporter for The New York Times broke a gender barrier when she became one of the first two female journalists to enter a men's professional sports locker room in North America, died at her home in Waltham, Mass. Summoners Value War. But then Donna likes the men she meets at Baja. TAFOYA: So there I am, and I'm getting ready to go in, and this is the first time I've ever done this, and I'm just going to do some radio interviews for tape to take them back and turn them around, and I said to myself I had a rule I established before I went in. The realities of the corporate world and the attitudes of Texas high school and college coaches quickly clouded my idealistic vision of a quick ascent from 18-year-old ball-girl phenom to big-league ace baseball writer. "Jenn," my friend told me, "I guess you rate a towel now.". Would it be awesome if they were better ventilated? I'd actually never been in an NBA locker room until last winter. I began a one-kid campaign to institute ball girls at Arlington Stadium as well as to become the first. Bergen Legal. Suddenly it all made sense: the way the numbers went across in a line on a scoreboard, what the three numbers at the end of the nine meant, even why the shortstop didn't have a bag. Alabama Phenix. About two yards down, I see legs behind the batting cage. "Can I stand here with y'all for a while?" I noted being in the middle of the room when a player came out of the shower, spotted me, and turned around and went back in. More than two years ago, I told the sports editor I wanted to return to sports. Now Chicago Bears defensive tackle Tommie Harris and linebacker Lance Briggs are the latest to chime-in. If the locker room is where athletes can be themselves, that change may be the most challenging. 26 photos, First published on August 12, 2011 / 12:24 PM. I've wanted to write stories about baseball since I was 10 years oldto write words so good that people would read them twice. When you've got dirt on them, all the condescending good-ol'-boy stuff goes out the window. So what? Sometimes we'd just watch any game on the TV. MO ROCCA: Can I ask you, when you talk to the losing team, do you kind of put on, like, a nice mommy voice, or do you change your tone of voice? The NFL is condemning remarks made by Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis concerning female reporters in the locker room. The Liberty Line is owned and operated by TLL Sports LLC. Maybe I'd never fit in. If necessity of deadlines or getting to someone before another reporter called for it, sure, I'd talk to Oral Roberts's 900-foot Jesus naked, no matter where the crotch fell. She was previously a sports columnist for the New York Daily News, and the first female sports columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, where she covered rugby union, Australian rules football, cricket and rugby league. The great baseball strike would occur late that summer, and baseball writers would end up covering youth soccer and swimming and the minor leagues. I broke several stories, one of which won a national award for investigative sports reporting. I began to rummage through the large boxes until I found the one with my publisher's name on it. Yeah. So you're a female reporter, you are allowed inside the NFL locker room, you're a pioneer, but there's still places out there, Michele, where they believe in cooties. Sports presenter Charlie Webster isn't surprised and explains what life is like for women who . I walked over to the corner where two guys from my hometown had their lockers. Its basically the same interview, over and over again, Islanders forward Anders Lee said Monday, taking off his pads in the corner of the locker room. I mean, we know a guy is probably happy to be a number-one draft choice, but what makes him real is how he is like or unlike us. The most puzzled responses to my job come from the friends and acquaintances in my personal life. The week after the Olson incident, Sam Wyche, coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, was fined one week's salary -- about $29,000 -- for refusing to let a female reporter in his locker room. And I didn't want to go back to putting up full-time with condescending high school and college coaches and jerks guarding locker room doors. It was like a club that I wasnt invited to, and unless I whispered the secret code word correctly, I would never gain entrance. Will Saturday be the last game for Jason Kelce at Lincoln Financial Field? Host virtual events and webinars to increase engagement and generate leads. Ken Dryden of the Montreal Canadiens talks to reporters in the locker room circa 1975 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Half the cost of the team's fine was to defray instructional materials the league could send to all teams and players, and Tagliabue wrote a letter to Kiam expressing his belief that the incident had "damaged" the league. Or at least made me feel that way. If you get this one right, you will win. Players mostly accept that strangers will see them au naturel. A female reporter conducts post-game interviews with members of a men's soccer team in the locker room. I told the PR guy that I sure hated to bring this up, but there was no place for the way this guy was acting. It is funny. But a little girl with blonde pin curls somehow slipped into the line of succession. [4] One player, Zeke Mowatt, "fondled his genitals" in front of her. Tipped off to my presence, the coach broke into a near run when I headed toward him in the hall. SALIE: Like gee, coach, it's not going so well, is it? TAFOYA: There's another joke there, but (unintelligible). And in no mood to take shit anymore. Covering major league baseball fulltime is my goal. But hey, I was the center of attention on a baseball field; I could sell out for that. bit scary, but I was very determined that this had to happen, not for me personally, but for all the young women who wanted to get into this profession. The male athletes dont. Before I could utter a word, he said, "Wait, let me rub it, it will get hard.". Near the field, I can see it is Al Newman and somebody. Hopefully we can ditch this weird practices permanently in 2022. But it wouldn't be my last. Affidavit Sample Administrative. It's like having a male gynecologistif he's fairly comfortable doing his thing, it makes the female patient fairly comfortable. Nudity rarely bothered me, but I prefer never to see Nolan Ryan in anything but Ranger white or bluejeans. SAGAL: B, George Washington himself went on a three-day bender there. After a while, you just get used to nakedness and its all business. TAFOYA: No, I always talk to them off camera because I can get more out of them, and then I come back after halftime, and I report to the audience what I've been told. I have complained little through the years because the last thing I ever wanted to do was to single myself out from the guys. That's something he'd say to anyone, I realized. For days, weeks, months --. Were you a football fan growing up? So you've been in the Mavericks locker room? ' Herman said. Then there was the time we had a story about an SWC coach paying players, and I appeared one morning at the school where he was an assistant. When a guy is naked, hes probably more honest than not.. I was amazed. But she still gets recognized as "the girl" who went in the. Check out some of our favorites so far. SAGAL: So how did you get into the - how did you - I mean, I'm going to guess SAGAL: that it's harder for a woman to get into major league professional sports reporting than it is for a man. We're going to ask you about famous men's only clubs. Not sports writing, but the best of every column written in the state that year. Accuracy and availability may vary. The Lisa Olson Incident, 20 Years Later: Today is the 20th anniversary of the Lisa Olson incident in the New England Patriots locker room, when the female Boston Herald sportswriter was sexually harassed by players Zeke Mowatt, Robert Perryman and Michael Timpson. It was an area high school coach who routinely tried to get me to drop by his house when his wife was out of town; when I refused for the third time, he refused to provide any more than perfunctory answers to my story questions. So I stepped down the tunnel from the dugout to the clubhouse and peered around the open door. He said he wanted to talk. Ludtke and Time Inc. filed a civil rights lawsuit months later. Gayle Gardner began working for ESPN in 1983 as a SportsCenter anchor, becoming one of the first women to regularly anchor a nightly network sports broadcast. Lisa Olson is an American sports journalist. And there was Reggie, in nothing but sanitary socks. SAGAL: How do you talk about sports for five hours without boring yourself to death? I tried to explain that it is probably a lot like being a male gynecologist: the daily procession of personal parts becomes so routine that it ceases to be of anything but professional interest. Michele Tafoya, welcome to WAIT WAITDON'T TELL ME! It doesn't make me angry anymore; it just seems silly and absurd. So why are they going to think the reporter is any different at first? Your job is sort of provide on-field commentary. It was an exercise in concentration trying to figure out who was who, and while I was concentrating, unfortunately, I managed to sashay into an area that should have had warning signs around it. July 27, 1997 Seven years ago, Zeke Mowatt flashed himself at Lisa Olson, who was then a reporter for the Boston Herald, and the great locker room debate erupted. I can't tell you the bizarre arguments I've had with a few of these creeps who keep suggesting I become a teacher. It was just one of those moments you want to hold for yourself. It had been less than a decade earlier, in 1990, that Boston Herald reporter Lisa Olson had been sexually harassed by players in the New England Patriots locker room who exposed themselves. Logic says they might not. Host virtual town halls, onboard and train employees, collaborate efficiently. But I had a deadline. He sure wished he'd taken it, he said in hindsight. One was about the sad tale of the career of David Clyde. Ludtke could gain access to baseball clubhouses to cover the World Series in 1978 and she wrote an Op-Ed piece for the Times when the New England Patriots were harassing Lisa Olson, a reporter for the Boston Herald at the time. Do they want to know if it's hard for him to keep his professionalism with his hand inserted in some babe's bodily cavityand whether it's scary? I had to remind myself that I should probably look away. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Kids at the tanning salon want to know if I date the players. He was really mouthing off at me. The reasoning behind this policy is that players are more likely to be relaxed and open with reporters after they have had a chance to cool down and take a shower. When I was 14, I heard from a friend that the Rangers would soon be hiring ball girls. Needless to say, this was a must-listen from the jump. For a gender that keeps complaining about equality and respect, they certainly dont seem to think men should get either of those. Like other working people, professional athletes want to leave the office when their shift ends, so they waste no time stripping down to hit the showers. "Are you going to talk to me or not?" Can the slump be permanent?". SAGAL: And some of the players were like, wait a minute, we don't want girls in here. The next year, I was booted because I couldn't do back flips. Its all weve ever known, right wing Josh Bailey, wearing a blue Islanders shirt, skin-tight compression shorts, and knee-high athletic socks, told me after a practice last week. Like the other night when I was interviewing Kenny Rogers after the game, and I just happened to notice he had really healthy-looking hair. Originally published June 4, 1992, in the Dallas Observer. About 1987, I got crossways with the sports editor. My dad was a buyer for Better Monkey Grip Rubber Company, and I'm not complaining. He told me I had to leave unless I was staying at the hotel. Each time I stopped pacing, the clerk and guard started toward me. His voice was growing louder. A collage on the walls above them shows newspaper headlines and media coverage of famous victories, ringing the small dressing room like a halo. SAGAL: What's the worst reaction you've ever gotten in that situation? Olson sued the team, and the players she implicated were fined by the NFL after its own investigation. After all, the story had just hit newsstands and restaurants and bars and grocery stores in the dead of the previous night. Buying ball tickets to as many games as my dad and I wanted to see was out of the question, so we climbed the wall in the late innings or sat in those free grassy spots behind the Cyclone fence. Actually, I tell them, one of the most peculiar side effects of my job is that it seems to run off men in personal relationships. But that's while they are still trying to maneuver you quickly into bed. A girl in the SAGAL: Michele Tafoya is the Emmy Award winning reporter for NBC's "Sunday Night Football," but she's spent time on basketball courts, softball diamonds, gymnastic mats and now public radio quiz show "Game Grids." Herman said she slowly convinced N.H.L. SAGAL: B, according to the club rules, quote, "at the point in their menstrual cycle when they are least likely to attract bears," unquote. She had few female colleagues in sports media to lean on. NFL Network Airs Interview With Naked Players In Background. Then Kevin Brown left the team and that whole bunch became as nice as could be. Well, Reggie Jackson was my first. I know they don't know what they're talking about. He said he was 16. TAFOYA: And so if they come up with any other days of the week, I'll be happy to try those, as well. For eight months, the editors refused to assign me any stories. New York Jets owner Woody Johnson personally apologized for the team's behavior. TAFOYA: Let me tell you about my first time. The following year, a federal judge struck down the MLB policy on 14th Amendment grounds. ", Because his reaction to my question was to begin raising his voice to say, "There's no time.". It would be the last day ever for those white shoesand my first of many covering professional sports. There was a sports editor who would stop by every time he saw me eating, stare at me, and say in all seriousness, "Jenn, if you get fat, we won't love you no more." It seems in those years I was the only writer who could converse with Julio Franco and Brian Downing. But there are still places out there where they believe in cooties, so Tafoya will answer three questions about men's-only clubs. She would later come to work at The Times as well. Being in the national spotlight was difficult and a little And I was entering the peak of a seven-year stint as the masked wrestling columnist Betty Ann StoutFort Worth's equivalent of Joe Bob Briggswhose unofficial duties included opening appliance stores, riding elephants when the circus came to town, and acting as rodeo Grand Marshal on the backs of large, hoofed animals. If female journalists are allowed into male locker rooms, then either male journalists should be allowed in female locker rooms or female journalists should not be allowed into male locker rooms. SAGAL: So you came back, and you're like, well, I just talked to the coach of the losing team, and he suggested certain things that were anatomically impossible. [Reporters] obviously need you to say some stuff so they can write their articles, said Islanders alternate captain Kyle Okposo, wiping his forehead with an already-drenched shirt. If you, as a grown man or woman, want to peep another adults private square, it doesnt need to be under the guise of a free and independent press. Its no big deal, and if you don't believe me, watch The Full Monty a couple of timesit gets old real fast and you don't even notice it anymore. Follow us on Twitter, @DeadspinStacks, or email us at [email protected]. And then you've got this woman who comes in to interview them, maybe with big hair and a short skirt too, depending on the humidity and what's off at the cleaners that day. Going to do my best. I should have told him how sad it was that he had to rub his own. I had to think as much about how to handle the next unwanted advance or suggestive quip as I did trying to figure the Mavericks' averages. We laughed and remembered when Desmond Reed finally scored a touchdown and he lit up telling me, I couldnt even enjoy it. January 5, 2022 1 Former Eagles defensive lineman and Super Bowl LII champion Chris Long made an appearance on Jeff Pearlman's podcast Two Writers Slinging Yang. It was The other was a first-person piece about the last game at Arlington Stadium. As I steamed over this, I took a shot of courage (a cold Starbucks Caf Latte) and pondered my circumstances. I'd heard the stories: the tales of women who felt forced to make a stand at the clubhouse door; of the way you're supposed to never look down at your notepad, or a player might think you're snagging a glimpse at his crotch; about how you've always got to be prepared with a one-liner, even if it means worrying more about snappy comebacks than snappy stories. [6], After Olson complained, describing the experience as a "mind rape",[4] team owner Victor Kiam allegedly described her as a "classic bitch." We're sitting around the salon one day making bets on when the rest of the country will catch on that Ross Perot is a weasel when someone says he finished ahead of Bush and Clinton in another poll. From a New York Times obit by Richard Sandomir headlined "Robin Herman, Who Pried Open Doors in the NHL, Dies at 70":. Gayle had heard the Fort Worth Star-Telegram higher-ups had had a meeting that morning regarding my continuedor discontinuedemployment. I began to cry. SAGAL: Actually, it was B with George Washington. I cant really think of something else thats similar to this, Bailey said. Instead of saying so-and-so is a good player, and heres a quote, I include some Vines and GIFs to show why hes so good, says Kevin Trahan, who writes for Vice and SB Nation. The little pranksters had used a bowl or something to draw a "circle slash" over Ruben's crotch. Perfect. SAGAL: Or C, Benjamin Franklin became the first and only member thrown out because of his horrible morals? I was doing another piece on the last day game at the old place, and I was in the dirt bowels of that poor old Erector set where many things, including skunks and raccoons, lived. The telephone poll conducted this week among 1,026 randomly selected adults nationwide found 59 percent of 556 women and 47 percent of 470 men said female reporters should be banned from NFL . I was so pissed over that (excessive celebration).. A few feet in, I realized a hall ran in front of the showers. The next day, another player told Eskenazi it was a joke. Readmore, The Islanders sent Nino Niederreiter to Minnesota for Cal Clutterbuck, and took defenseman Ryan Pulock with the 15th over all pick in Sundays N.H.L. Players tear off equipment at wooden cubbies bearing their names and numbers, laughing about how Mel Gibson got ribbed at the Golden Globes. Some summers we went to 20 games; others we went to about 56. Raffy said, "Hey, he wants to talk to you," pointing to Kenny Rogers. But of course that wasnt the case. Dressed in a pair of virgin white flats, I trudged through the Arlington Stadium tunnela conglomeration of dirt and spit and sunflower seeds, caked to the walkway like 10,000-year-old bat guano at Carlsbad Cavernsdreading the task before me. That seemed like such a dumb thing to say. I wrote about civil rights issues and roamed through abandoned warehouses alone in search of skinheads. Family trips in an egg-shell-white Impala to see the cousins in Plainview took fewer rough turns. I hate to invade their pain and their anger and sometimes even their happiness. SAGAL: Or C, in December, only to buy Christmas gifts for their husbands in the pro shop? "All right, heck with it then," I said. [1][3], After her graduation from college, she moved to the East Coast to attend graduate school, but she decided to pursue a career in sportswriting. My name and Roger Angell's had been mentioned in the same sentence. 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