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." Keep your eyes on your own work Super Chief. It reminds me of a debutante waking up in last night's party dress, reeking of beer. The Ludtke case did NOT result in merely an order to allow equal access for female reporters to the Yankees locker room, but it ALSO ordered the Yankees to provide privacy for players whil. It's the reason I'm a sportswriter, and I learned it from my dad. from NPR. But I learned to do news as well. He sure wished he'd taken it, he said in hindsight. That did it; now they were ready to call the police. I had started wandering longingly over to the sports department, just to talk about baseball. As Orwell said, Everyone's equal, but some are more equal than others. I had become a sweating mass of raw nerve endings. But unfortunately, in north Arlington, this seems to be an enviable attribute on a par with big Dallas hair and coaching shorts as after-five wear. It was when all the guys were inside doing interviews, and I was standing in the rain, makeup peeling, outside the high school locker room at Fort Worth's Farrington Field, waiting beneath the six-foot-long "No Women" sign for the players to come to the doorway. We got to Frank DeFord's comment at the end. 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. Hell, why do these guys need to come into the locker room to ask questions anyway? I began to cry. The one thing that keeps you focused in a locker room is simplethese guys are not wearing clothes, and the only way you can identify who they are is by face recognition. ", OK, so game over and time to head back down to the clubhouse. he demanded. And I wanted to cover the Rangers someday. It would be the last day ever for those white shoesand my first of many covering professional sports. In 1990, while working at the Boston Herald, she alleged that she was sexually harassed by New England Patriots football players in the team's locker room. The interview format is believed to have been popularized around mid-century by Dick Young, a New York Daily News sportswriter. More than two years ago, I told the sports editor I wanted to return to sports. Perhaps the most meaningful were the calls from fellow sportswriters. And his eyes got to be like the size of paper plates because what I didn't notice was that he was buck naked. A girl in the Near the field, I can see it is Al Newman and somebody. But then Donna likes the men she meets at Baja. After I poured myself out in the "Locker Room" piece, I was a bit empowered. All the culprits are either long gone or have actually apologized, saying they just didn't know better at the time. No one seems to know when the first female Equipment . When you've got dirt on them, all the condescending good-ol'-boy stuff goes out the window. And while most nudity is off-camera and doesnt find its way to audiences, the shirtless, disheveled, or still-sweating sports star, facing an array of microphones in front of his cubby, has become an enduring image in sports coverage. I have complained little through the years because the last thing I ever wanted to do was to single myself out from the guys. Ines Sainz: NFL Investigates Jets 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. I asked. So what? Gayle had heard the Fort Worth Star-Telegram higher-ups had had a meeting that morning regarding my continuedor discontinuedemployment. Teams and leagues barred female reporters from locker rooms over the following decades, robbing them of an increasingly important access point for player interviews. After a long game, while standing in the middle of the clubhouse waiting for someone to appear, I sometimes gaze off in one direction, the way you stare when you're bored and become transfixed on an object until your eyes cross and you snap back into the reality of car payments and cellulite. Readmore, The Devils took Anthony Brodeur, an 18-year-old goalie, with the 208th pick of the 211-pick draft, sending their seventh-round pick in 2015 to the Kings in exchange for the chance to pick Brodeur. I began a one-kid campaign to institute ball girls at Arlington Stadium as well as to become the first. He remembered me. TAFOYA: You know what, though, timing is everything, and I think I sort of followed the floodgates that were opened by Lesley Visser and Robin Roberts. Industrial-size hampers, home to growing mounds of moist practice jerseys, sit on each side of the cramped chamber in its Syosset, New York, training facility. He glanced sideways, kind of sneered, and stuck his head back in his laptop. On cue, all the players in the Jets locker room got up and they all had the word Gitte written on their asses, he says. I went home and called my sports editor. [4] Robert Perryman did the same while her back was turned. I was trying to work and didn't feel I had the time for petty bullshit. Now Chicago Bears defensive tackle Tommie Harris and linebacker Lance Briggs are the latest to chime-in. No one seems to know when the first female Equipment Manager was hired. An SMU booster threatened to have my legs brokenand I was delighted. From anyone. I'm going to look at their eyebrows when I talk to them because that will make sure that I'm focused there, and I can never be accused of looking anywhere else. ADAM FELBER: Welcome back to You Disgust Me with Michele Tafoya. SAGAL: The club was famed for its beverage known as Fish House Punch, which according to legend was so potent, it knocked George Washington out of commission for three days. Access issues aside, broader changes in the media environment have begun to change the content of locker-room interviews, presenting a more chronic problem for many sports journalists. An Ongoing Problem : Women Reporters Resent How They're Treated in the Locker Rooms By FRED LIEF Jan. 5, 1986 12 AM PT United Press International NEW YORK "If a reporter is duly and. That's before they tell me I don't have any business in the locker room. The Mavericks pose an entirely different set of problems. I asked my question; he answered. It was walking into the football locker room at the University of Texas in Austin and having a large man with burnt-orange pants and dark white face pick me up by my underarms and deposit me outside the door. Nudity rarely bothered me, but I prefer never to see Nolan Ryan in anything but Ranger white or bluejeans. NFL Network Airs Interview With Naked Players In Background. Of course, Rader would have spat corn at anybody. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff) How could it be that it was 43 years ago when Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke and Time Inc., sued Major League Baseball for denying her access to the clubhouses at Yankee Stadium? 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? And of course, women everywhere want to know about that great walled fortress of wet boy flesh, the locker room. TAFOYA: I mean, you get to know every single coach and how he's going to respond to you in TAFOYA: that moment, and you just sort of brace for it. Donna doesn't like newspapers either. Top photo illustration by Jim Cooke; original photo by Scogin Mayo. [6] The general manager of the team was fired. Jenny Kellner. Do you go into the locker room? And I make a beeline for my guy that I'm going to interview, and I'm walking up toward him. I should have told him how sad it was that he had to rub his own. A few feet in, I realized a hall ran in front of the showers. Had all that I'd put up with just been for nothing? That's when a security guard came up to me to ask why I was there. He was home and reading stuff on the wire, as we called it at the time. Olson worked as a sports columnist for the Daily News for ten years. I'm no wimp; I can take a lot. I think I may have actually gained some respect in various journalism and sports circles. Readmore, With the 65th overall pick, the Rangers chose Adam Tambellini, a 6-foot-2 center whose father and brother each played for the Islanders. Alrighty then, time to search out the first player I wanted to talk toUSC quarterback Mark Sanchez. The old Never let them see you sweat adage was thrown out the window and I was dripping angst from my brow. It was time to go back to the dream. And theres going to be cameras. I dont think you need to be in there when the athletes are down to their skivvies. But I couldn't back out. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. A female reporter conducts post-game interviews with members of a men's soccer team in the locker room. It doesn't make me angry anymore; it just seems silly and absurd. TAFOYA: And so if they come up with any other days of the week, I'll be happy to try those, as well. Many dressing rooms dont have such modicums of privacy, leaving players in the buff in front of reporters fishing for quotes. "I don't think women should be in the locker room," he said. "I am done, but I don't want him to think I am leaving because of him.". [10], After the incident became public, Olson was subjected to harassment by fans of the Patriots. And in no mood to take shit anymore. "And I mean, you put a woman and you give her a choice of 53 athletes . It was You see, folks in the world of sports weren't used to working with a "fee-male." One day, she went unannounced to see an editor of the Boston Herald and asked for a job. I sat at some random desk to look busy for a while, which is what sportswriters do every week or three. On Jan 21, 1975 she "broke the locker room barrier" as the first female reporter to enter a male professional league locker room (NHL All-Star Game) for post-game quotes. Then Kevin Brown left the team and that whole bunch became as nice as could be. If I ever dread talking to players now, it is not because I feel that I don't belong there. NEW YORK (CBS) Everyone has an opinion about the recent incident involving the way Mexican reporter Ines Sainz was treated in the New York Jets locker room Saturday. I head down the steps, past the seats where I couldn't even afford to sit when I was a kid, open heaven's gate, and walk onto the field. I never told my friends. I said, "Listen, I have been covering this game since I was about two years older than you are so you can just shut it right now.". Raffy, Kenny Rogers, Kevin Brown had their little clique on the far side of the clubhouse. 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 didn't give it a whole lot of thought as I went into the office that day. It wasn't Reggie or pro-locker-room banter. The immediate response is curiosity: Do I get to go in the locker room? By that time I had moved east to cover the Phillies. TAFOYA: I adored football growing up. My daddy and I saw our first major-league game together on Opening Night here in 1972. The exchange between Newton and Rodrigue rightfully spurred a much needed discussion about women and sports journalism, so I decided to ask three former NFL players to speak candidly about their views on women reporters. It was critical no one smelled fear or I'd lose respect from the get-go. Kids at the tanning salon want to know if I date the players. She was a travel writer and at the end of a marriage, and we were traipsing around the Four Corners area. The guys are much more formal in talking. I checked out Rey Maualugas locker, which resembles something out of that voodoo-worshipping slugger from the movie Major League. Her work has been featured in the anthology, "The Best American Sports Writing". She had prepared for it by being in the first class of women admitted to Princeton and said Like a son telling his mom, Way to go, you made me proud.. 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? I feel like because we get paid so much money, and were such macho dudes that everybody is like, fuck em.. We drove to a mall in Santa Fe, and there were the boxes, taped, freshly shipped, in the front of the store. I was down there to see the guy turn off the lights for the last day game. The most puzzled responses to my job come from the friends and acquaintances in my personal life. Whoops! 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. I explained again that I was a sportswriter waiting for Grant Teaff and pointed out other reporters, all men, around the lobby. TAFOYA: I'm entering my third season for "Sunday Night Football. Man, did I ever realize how my attitude and courage level had changed. The he got to a really big one"Best General Column Writing." TAFOYA: Yeah, I used to much more so in the NBA, and that's quite something. [4], On April 25, 1991, Olson filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts state court against the Patriots, Kiam, Sullivan, Oldham, and the three players (Mowatt, Timpson, and Perryman), alleging violations of her civil rights, sexual harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and intentional damage to her professional reputation. After five years as a sports reporter, she moved on to write about science and health, leaving the rest of the battle to Im at work! A three-part series on Ruth Ryan, spouse of Nolan, turned into a delightful three-week chore that included stops at the Ryans' ranch in Alvin and the stadium. I ended up covering minor events full time, even doing the dreaded office score-taking work again. 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. 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. They were believed to be the first women ever admitted to a professional locker room. 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? By then, I had become accustomed to the nudity and byplay of the locker room. The hamster in my mental Wonderwheel never seems to stop running, so my mind keeps a lot of thoughts going at once. I don't like the double-standard we have with male-female divide. At first, I thought he meant on the job. or "You wrote a good piece, Jenn, but then your headline writers let you down at the end; what does that feel like?" Olson later wrote a column apologizing to Wells for coming to his house during what was such an emotional time. [4] The Herald's then owner, News Corporation, offered to transfer her to Sydney, Australia, where she worked for The Daily Telegraph and the Sydney Morning Herald. And there, not 1,000 days after I had emerged from the darkness of the womb, hundreds of bright light bulbs made me squint as I watched the first half-inning of my life, the last three outs of a Spurs game. 7 players remain on Eagles latest injury Danny Green provides new insight on Tobias Interview: Former Eagles Super Bowl Champ, Chris Long, Joins Tom Segura on Tom Talks. Team dressing rooms are typically open to journalists before or after practices and games. Absolutely. The sexism row over a female sports reporter who was allegedly harassed in the New York Jets locker room was reignited last night after a Fox NFL analyst claimed she was 'asking for it.' 2011 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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. In the arbitrary world of newspaper politics, the arrival of a new sports editor breathed life into my career. He carried me to the back of the outfield wall and climbed the slatted boards with his right arm and clutched me in his left. If you can do that, they will accept you with open arms, and, actually, be on their best manners when you talk to them. Numerous new-media outlets have likewise gained access, leading to a ballooning locker room press corps and, in turn, limiting the exclusivity of any individual interview. Then he held my head over the top of the wall in center. Your job is sort of provide on-field commentary. So when I was about 16, I wrote every major-league club with ball girls and asked about the pros and cons. 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. Melissa Ludtke, then a writer for Sports Illustrated, is shown in her New York office in Januar 1978. OK, so now it was home to take a run and try to clear my head of concerns about just what might be waiting for me at the ballpark. Herman said she slowly convinced N.H.L. I think how cool it is to watch a stadium yawn to life. Indeed, athletes are increasingly coached on what to say to reporters in interviewsand what not to say. But I can understand the athletes being naturally uncertain what to make of women, of me. For days, weeks, months --. Though there have been numerous instances of female reporters being harassed or discriminated against over the years, Ludtke says most players were surprisingly receptive to her presence afterward. Even in the relatively overlooked NHL, the New York Islanders draw about 30 journalists a game. So I didn't write. I broke several stories, one of which won a national award for investigative sports reporting. Then there was Everson Griffen, an underclassman defensive end who will be a big name next year and eventually on Sundays. [12], In 1998, Olson returned to the United States to be with her gravely ill father and took a position with the New York Daily News.[1][9]. Referring to the United States military's use of Patriot missiles during the then-ongoing Gulf War, Kiam said to the audience: "What do the Iraqis have in common with Lisa Olson? Well, Reggie Jackson was my first. Its a bizarre world that weve come to live in. SAGAL: Now, why is that because being a reporter seems like a hard job? But the point is that you don't even think much about people being naked after a while, and unless you have some peculiar reason for remembering, you don't know who you have seen naked because they all kind of waltz in and out of the shower naked, just one wet butt covered with soap film after another. And yes, I was scared. The NFL also sent a memo to all 32 teams in the league Thursday reminding them of its equal access and conduct policy toward the media. She lives with three dogs in her happy bungalow in Texas. But instead, the man who is an idol to thousands of children launched into a verbal tirade loudly insulting my intelligence and shouting for someone to remove me from the clubhouse. A collage on the walls above them shows newspaper headlines and media coverage of famous victories, ringing the small dressing room like a halo. We still booted women took off the nfl reporter locker room in female reporter paola boivin felt a sports reporters are uncommon, adult . 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. And every once in a while I think about slatted billboards and a daddy's arms. I like to think I've earned a little respect. 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. 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. And yes, he gave me a pat on the shoulder afterwards. I asked one more time interrupting. The documentary was about female sportswriters' struggles to gain access to male locker rooms in order to be able to do their jobs. He might not understand that I meant its thickness and shine were enviable. Players mostly accept that strangers will see them au naturel. After the initial averting of my eyes, I noticed a member of USCs staff naked as well, and it then occurred to me; after you see one naked butt, they all start to look the same. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. He was from Venezuela or the Dominican Republic, and guys from way south of here often start their careers as young as 16 or so. As of 2013, she was working as a freelance writer.[1]. Thank you for visiting Slap Shot. The incident is considered by many to be a watershed moment for women in sports journalism. Jennifer Briggs has covered the Texas Rangers, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Phillies, and Green Bay Packers. agree wrote: If a male reporter went into the womens locker room, all hell would break loose. And it was my first failure covering sports. I knew they had accepted me when at a press conference after the Washington Huskies game, Pete Carroll walked into the press conference, made eye contact with a few reporters he knew, then looked at me and gave me a wink and a smile. The next year, I was booted because I couldn't do back flips. He sobbed at his locker for 15 minutes after the game, as ESPNs Kevin Seifert wrote, later facing a gaggle of reporters. OK, pre-game festivities concluded, I went back up to the press box to start writing some pre-game sidebar. 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. Customers Modifications . TAFOYA: Well, you have to maneuver around that. I was ready once again to be the greatest sportswriter who ever lived. 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 players didn't know I'd grown up with games or that my best friends had usually been crude guys or that I could open a beer bottle with my incisors or that I liked to fish as much as they did. 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