That's another thing that has changed. If I did ever fall hopelessly head over heels for one of these men, it would not be because I had noticed a pterodactyl-size penis, but for the same reasons I'd fall for anyone else. "All right, heck with it then," I said. Specific. I corresponded with them for another two years before the call finally came. He remembered me. Oh sure, little stuff happened, like the time one of the Oakland A's made a big point of standing next to me naked in the middle of the clubhouse or one of the Los Angeles Raiders chucked a set of shoulder pads at my butt. It doesn't make me angry anymore; it just seems silly and absurd. The latter are supposed to be more humorous than the former, though adulthood has taught me different. SAGAL: That's an interesting message for somebody who works for "Sunday Night Football" to send. (I'm serious, they really ask this. 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. Then there was the occasion Rangers manager Doug Rader spat corn on me after I asked a dumb question. "Jenn," my friend told me, "I guess you rate a towel now.". During my first four years at the Star-Telegram I took one day off to model at an auto show and five days off to get married. I can't tell you the bizarre arguments I've had with a few of these creeps who keep suggesting I become a teacher. He sobbed at his locker for 15 minutes after the game, as ESPNs Kevin Seifert wrote, later facing a gaggle of reporters. As I stood outside the locker room, it hit me like a lightning boltwait a minute, Bill Plaschke was in there getting killer quotes and I wasnt! While all this was going on, I began helping out with Dallas Cowboys sidebar articles and weekend coverage of the Rangers. Steam Food Of Industry. There was no fallout at the paper. 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. Gardner later moved on to NBC,. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Vikings fans got to agree with that. So you've been in the Mavericks locker room? He was thrilled to get an interview, and was so polite and warm, I didnt realize he was wearing practically nothing while I spoke with him. When you've interviewed a 17-year-old mother whose daughter was stillborn for lack of prenatal care, how tough can it be to talk to a young pitcher who's lost to the Angels for lack of run support? 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. others. SAGAL: Do you do that because I've wondered about that? I spun around and walked outpast the staring faces, through the red door, down the 10,000-year-old bat-guano tunneland emerged into the dugout and the light of the real world, where I was nothing but a kid reporter who didn't get the story. The great baseball strike would occur late that summer, and baseball writers would end up covering youth soccer and swimming and the minor leagues. Tipped off to my presence, the coach broke into a near run when I headed toward him in the hall. It was also the Bear's last season. [4] Robert Perryman did the same while her back was turned. SAGAL: Well, tonight, Michele Tafoya's special segment, What the Hell is Wrong With You People? Yeah. No sitting or leaning. My name and Roger Angell's had been mentioned in the same sentence. Copyright 2013 NPR. That did it; now they were ready to call the police. Standard Fraley, so no problems there. 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. 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. The Herald editor offered her a position handling horse-racing agate. But I can understand the athletes being naturally uncertain what to make of women, of me. 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. SAGAL: He left the Reform Club, traveled around the world in 80 days, came back, ran up the steps, but he was not wearing a jacket and tie. 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. She has covered sports stories in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Japan, China, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. Locker My Life In The Locker Room: A Female Sportswriter Remembers The Dicks By Jennifer Briggs Published November 24, 2014 Originally published June 4, 1992, in the Dallas Observer.. The next year, I was booted because I couldn't do back flips. TAFOYA: I think one of the most - and again, I won't name names - but I remember doing an NBA game, and I was asked to go interview a player's wife in the stands about something. Donna doesn't like newspapers either. TAFOYA: All right, Daniel. At the same time, my marriage began taking ugly, unspeakable turns. I asked. Writing this the other night, tears filled my eyes, and I got that precry phlegm in my throat. I was doing that one recent day when a wet, naked body walked into my trance. 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. The next day, another player told Eskenazi it was a joke. And it had just started to become something that women could do, and I thought I can do this. 2011 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. The documentary was about female sportswriters' struggles to gain access to male locker rooms in order to be able to do their jobs. The other night, there were two girls in the clubhouse after the game. From anyone. Graduate. Good God, all I had wanted to do was cover sports. Sometimes before the game when everyone is milling about, I go sit around the corner in equipment manager Joe Macko's office and visit for a while just so I don't wear out my welcome in the room o' nakedness. "Can I talk to you for a minute," I said. Its a bizarre world that weve come to live in. So what? I was afraid of the unknown. Not about naked bodies or about crude remarks but about how they would think I feltand how I intended to respond with confidence, no matter what happened. The best advice I ever got was go get a job somewhere. It may have been his first night. The game was boring. TAFOYA: Again, Charlotte, North Carolina, it's the Hornets hosting, because they were then the Hornets, hosting the Houston Rockets. SAGAL: And some of the players were like, wait a minute, we don't want girls in here. agree wrote: If a male reporter went into the womens locker room, all hell would break loose. First Female Reporter In Nfl Locker Room. I was amazed. or "You haven't written any good stones in the last month. But of course that wasnt the case. And this was so long ago that the guy who opened the door said lady in the locker room. / CBS News. I asked. 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. I seriously considered taking a job as a researcher for a law firm. Leaking testosterone and reeking of beer, a Jethro Bodin-esque character sidles up and asks what I do. But after getting home from school, I'd quickly skip back to the sports section of the evening Star-Telegram to compare my work to that of the pros. David Cone, Wells's teammate, gave Olson and Marchiano Wells's address. My dad was a buyer for Better Monkey Grip Rubber Company, and I'm not complaining. Show More. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. And every once in a while I think about slatted billboards and a daddy's arms. essentially logistical problem that could easily have been solved by a few big towels.. Am I right? They used to have us dance to the "Cotton-Eyed Joe" in the seventh inning, and for a while we shook pom-poms during ralliesacts I now, as a baseball purist, consider heresy. For eight months, the editors refused to assign me any stories. So do you know about sports?" This blogs regular features, including live game analysis, reader discussion, news and notes from Jeff Z. Klein and others, can now be found on the Hockey section front. In 1978, Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke won the right to practice journalism in the locker room of the New York Yankees, securing equal access to cover the same sports teams and. She demanded the same access that male reporters had. The Boys Only sign wasnt on the door, but still, I could see it. And then there's the guyalmost any guy in any bar in townwho subjects me to a sports-trivia quiz during the usual getting-acquainted foreplay. So when I was about 16, I wrote every major-league club with ball girls and asked about the pros and cons. The grass spreads out in the shape of a precious gem, and there are fans here and there who have come to see batting practice just because it's relaxing. Why? The key is to gain the players respect and trust. But one thing kept me in sports: I got a Rangers media pass every year. So, 35 years ago, Herman and another woman a Montreal radio reporter, Marcel St. Cyr gathered with other reporters after the game and walked in to conduct postgame interviews. Reporter Beth Ruyak stands holding a mircophone in front the NFC Locker Room before Super Bowl XXV with the New York Giants against the Buffalo Bills. You know, it was like, "So-and-so from The Beaumont Enterprise, many so-and-so's from The Dallas Morning News.". Locker rooms are overrated. It gets a lot worse than the predictable . SAGAL: That's what you do. And I know how smartass remarks work, too. Whoops! All of my male media brethren went cruising into this sacred place, and then, there was only methe lone female reporter covering a USC football gamewaiting outside. As it stands now, the NFL allows female reporters in locker rooms, but only after games. The only way a female reporter can do her job in a locker room is if the players don't look at her as a chick. And in no mood to take shit anymore. Should they be banned from locker rooms? Thank you for visiting Slap Shot. Why the fuck can yall walk in, and we are half-naked? 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. And I have shared that with very few people. Last night's trash still blows, even though people are sweeping all over the place. About 1986, there was a college football convention in Dallas. It's not a place for socialising. SALIE: Men, that was all men, that was all men, sister. I was nervous the first time I entered the Rangers locker room, about seven years ago. Another superior had his assistant let me off early so he could be waiting for me in the parking lot. I have assimilated to a large degree but probably never will completely. There are plenty of women who have guy friends and have no ulterior motive in the friendshipcontrary to popular belief, women and men can co-habitate in extreme conditions. And surely the Observer's reader demographics did not include most ballplayers and some stadium employees. I ran out of material 10 minutes ago. SAGAL: All right. 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. We shagged foul balls, but in retrospect, I guess we were more decorative than functional. Complete Coverage of Ines Sainz on Crimesider. 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. draft.Readmore, The Rangers announced Friday that they would not use their remaining compliance buyout this summer, ensuring that Brad Richards will return to the team for at least one more season.Readmore, The Mourning Skate: Blues for John Halligan, N.H.L. 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. That was the stunned reaction of journalist Joey Chandler after she, along with two other female journalists, was reportedly barred from entering the Jacksonville Jaguars locker room on Sunday night. It began when I was 3 and my daddy took me to Turnpike Stadiumnow Arlington Stadiumto see the old minor-league Spurs. ", Next to the entry door, there was a large poster of a shirtless Ruben Sierra. Some summers we went to 20 games; others we went to about 56. The guys screamed at me and demanded to know if I was "on the rag" when I was surly; yet they could scream and be surly at me all they wanted. I ended up covering minor events full time, even doing the dreaded office score-taking work again. If my mom made us go to Wyatt's for supper, my father would wear his primitive Walkman through the serving line, once scaring the meat lady by hollering, "Dadgum Toby Harrah!" I walked over to the corner where two guys from my hometown had their lockers. It is one thing not to look at your notepad, but another not to be able to look straight ahead without a big clothesline of boy parts. Places in Arlington might not get it until mid-afternoon. Later that year, Olson and Sam Marchiano were reportedly subjected to a profanity-laced verbal tirade by New York Yankees pitcher David Wells when they approached him at his home to comment on his sudden trade to the Toronto Blue Jays for Roger Clemens. TAFOYA: But still, tune in each Sunday night. SAGAL: Or C, Benjamin Franklin became the first and only member thrown out because of his horrible morals? [6] The general manager of the team was fired. He told me I had to leave unless I was staying at the hotel. These arent your high school gym locker roomsmany are increasingly part of multi-room complexes including lounges and training rooms that media cant accessbut journalists would be hard pressed to find so many sources anywhere else. SAGAL: So you are and have been for how long now, the sideline on-field reporter for NBC's "Sunday Night Football"? The balls with the signatures still sit on my mantel, most reading like the tombstones of major-league also-rans. You can't do this without asking about their dogs and their mom and what bugs them even worse than dropping the soap in the shower. SAGAL: Did somebody drop some profanity on you? And yes, I was scared. "The Texas APME awards are out," he said. 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. Eskenazi recalls an episode from the New York Jets locker room in 1988, when defensive end Mark Gastineau pulled down his pants to show Eskenazi a tattoo on his hind quarters reading Gitte, short for then-girlfriend Brigitte Nielsen. A collage on the walls above them shows newspaper headlines and media coverage of famous victories, ringing the small dressing room like a halo. Apparently this happened at the morning budget meeting where "My Life in the Locker Room" was discussed at great length. I didn't want to be branded as some woman on a crusade. He. Friends at Bible study ask if the players are mean to me. [6] Sullivan observed Olson and determined that she was acting professionally, interviewing Maurice Hurst, but took no other action. I wrote about civil rights issues and roamed through abandoned warehouses alone in search of skinheads. Follow us on Twitter, @DeadspinStacks, or email us at thestacks@deadspin.com. I have one of the few jobs where the first thing people ask about is penises. 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? He might not understand that I meant its thickness and shine were enviable. Api. In I went into the world of major testosterone, stinky athletic shoes, and wrinkled jerseys, and out I came a different person. Once I stopped and they looked up, so I started spinning around in circles. [2] She was the sports editor of her high school and college newspapers. As one of the first female reporters to be allowed inside the NFL locker room, she has been a pioneer in her field. I went home and called my sports editor. So I went about my business. Youve got limited time to talk to the players before they leave, so make hay or fail is my mantra. 2023 Vimeo.com, Inc. All rights reserved. I retreated back behind the door before anyone could see me. They picked threeCindy, because she was a perky cheerleader at the University of Texas at Arlington; Jamie, because she had modeling experience; and me, because I was a pest. [7][8], Eventually, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue ordered an investigation under the aegis of former Watergate scandal prosecutor Philip Heymann;[5] the 60-page report concluded that Olson was "degraded and humiliated." It was like, you know, lady with a baby coming, lady in the locker room. Even in the relatively overlooked NHL, the New York Islanders draw about 30 journalists a game. As I steamed over this, I took a shot of courage (a cold Starbucks Caf Latte) and pondered my circumstances. This is all very exciting. I never told my friends. Point guards became my instant favorites for those early post-shower interviews. I like to think I've earned a little respect. By then I had researched what day shipment was due in bookstores. He let me do it. Hey, this is pretty cool, I thought. And blocked by virtue of being a woman Melissa Ludtke's landmark. Man, did I ever realize how my attitude and courage level had changed. "I don't think women should be in the locker room," he said. He still didn't answer my question directly. 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. Reprinted here with permission from the author, who has also provided an afterword about the response to her story. I think you'd need to show that male reporters are not allowed into female locker rooms to show a double standard. Pleasure to have you. Sometimes we'd just watch any game on the TV. Family trips in an egg-shell-white Impala to see the cousins in Plainview took fewer rough turns. During the 1977 World Series, the MLB commissioners office banned then-Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke from both teams locker rooms, overriding the New York Yankees blessing and a majority vote in the Los Angeles Dodgers clubhouse. I complained. We got to Frank DeFord's comment at the end. Or maybe into public relations. Slap Shot, the New York Times hockey blog, reports on the Rangers, the National Hockey League and anything that glides quickly across a frozen surface anywhere on the globe, from the snowy prairies of Saskatchewan to Its a mind-numbing thing to experiencegetting complete wrapped up in a job and not noticing the other stuff around you. TAFOYA: Oh, gosh. 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. Yes, I was that excited. Ines Sainz, a reporter for Mexico's TV Azteca doing a story on quarterback Mark Sanchez, had footballs thrown in her direction by a Jets coach during practice, and players later called out to her in the team's locker room. A small band of medianormal-sized humanstries to keep out of half-naked players way as they dip behind a curtain sporting the teams logo and into the showers. And yes, he gave me a pat on the shoulder afterwards. So while I'm asking him about his family's strawberry farm, I'm wondering if eggs have given him this nice, shiny coat or if he uses his wife's conditioner, and if so, what is it? TAFOYA: Yes, on-field commentary, pre-game interviews, post-game interviews. Quite normal, nothing harmful. We went to a bench just outside the door and began to look through it. TAFOYA: a player sitting next to him says, ma'am, could you just turn around and let the man put a towel on? The interview format is believed to have been popularized around mid-century by Dick Young, a New York Daily News sportswriter. If she. Ill never forget the first time I entered that forbidden place called the players locker room. Horse's Heinie on occasion, was watching a college football game in a chair in the middle of it allnaked. Players mostly accept that strangers will see them au naturel. Then I did something I had never done. Its a symbiotic relationship. locker room was a story. Or at least that's what I thought I said. The access is great, but it does create some very. I asked my question; he answered. 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. And it was my first failure covering sports. Oh sure, they may actually think I'm an idiot. So, 35 years ago, Herman and another woman a Montreal radio reporter, Marcel St. Cyr gathered with other reporters after the game and walked in to conduct postgame interviews. to persuade N.H.L. Jennifer Briggs has covered the Texas Rangers, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Phillies, and Green Bay Packers. 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 you know, they all say that word so well. 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. Other summer nights we sat on the back porch and listened to the Rangers on the radio. I had started wandering longingly over to the sports department, just to talk about baseball. Herman was a hockey reporter covering the New York Islanders when she and another female reporter were allowed to interview players in the locker room as their male counterparts were commonly permitted to do . One editor in the chain of sports command kept trying to get me to check into the Worthington Hotel with him after work. About 1987, I got crossways with the sports editor. He said he wanted to talk. think men are going to tend to turn and look and want to say something 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. I felt like a cancer victim who was finally ready to give up the fight because it meant giving up the pain and humiliation. SAGAL: I thought I'd bring you on and see what you had. She had prepared for it by being in the first class of women admitted to Princeton and said I sat at some random desk to look busy for a while, which is what sportswriters do every week or three. Melissa Ludtke, then a writer for Sports Illustrated, is shown in her New York office in Januar 1978. I mean, I know how penises work. The Stacks is Deadspin's living archive of great journalism, curated by Bronx Banter's Alex Belth. "Just do your job, that's it," he told NBCChicago.com. We understood the importance this held.. He was standing in front of me ready to talk, I locked eyes on him, and asked my questions. But the road has been anything but smooth. I mean, because if you sell out the coach, you never get to talk to them again, so I don't want to sell out the coach. Career ladders are never cushy for anybody, man or woman, unless of course your dad is president of GM or GE or whatever Nation's Bank is called this week. 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? That's something he'd say to anyone, I realized. A few feet in, I realized a hall ran in front of the showers. Her work has been featured in the anthology, "The Best American Sports Writing". I dont really think about it. NBA teams play 82 games a year, not including playoffs and preseason contests. SAGAL: Absolutely. 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