By Adrienne Jones. I began a one-kid campaign to institute ball girls at Arlington Stadium as well as to become the first. Service For. I got nothing left. But a little girl with blonde pin curls somehow slipped into the line of succession. I can't understand the idiots who call the sports department and want to talk to a man on the phone instead of meor some guy who goes out of his way to spit Niblets on me. Near the field, I can see it is Al Newman and somebody. Alrighty then, time to search out the first player I wanted to talk toUSC quarterback Mark Sanchez. Writing this the other night, tears filled my eyes, and I got that precry phlegm in my throat. Will Saturday be the last game for Jason Kelce at Lincoln Financial Field? I asked my question; he answered. I wanted to know these 4 things: 1. As she wrote in a post on her own blog, I found myself forced to muster Supreme Court-worthy arguments for an inane, Players tear off equipment at wooden cubbies bearing their names and numbers, laughing about how Mel Gibson got ribbed at the Golden Globes. Leaking testosterone and reeking of beer, a Jethro Bodin-esque character sidles up and asks what I do. Long goes on to mention how most reporters would brush his concerns aside, which would honestly drive me nuts. SALIE: Do you have a minute for me, coach? Like, I understand getting the whole story for your readers. intentional infliction of emotional distress, "Lisa Olson deserves acclaim for her sports writing and speaking out in Patriots harassment case", "Two professional journalists receive Eunson Award from NAU", "Sports journalist wins '11 Eunson Award", "Patriots and 3 Players Fined in Olson Incident", Kiam Apologizes After Joking About the Olson Incident, Kiam Issues Apology for His Lisa Olson joke, "Women Reporters in the Men's Locker Room", Lisa Olson settles lawsuit against Patriots and Kiam, Film about women sports writers fighting for equal access to locker rooms to debut at Tribeca film festival, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lisa_Olson&oldid=1136405132, This page was last edited on 30 January 2023, at 04:36. The game was boring. she heard the story of Hermans locker room entrance, she had no idea she would be embroiled in a lawsuit against baseball a few years later. The dirty little secret I've discovered is how little men know about sports, since this is what men are supposed to know more about than women. He ran into a dark office where I found him hiding under the desk. If you can do that, they will accept you with open arms, and, actually, be on their best manners when you talk to them. Its a professional setting, and if the reporter is professional, the whole experience is smooth as silk. Lisa Olson is an American sports journalist. Their job as a reporter is to get instant reaction from a player after the game has concluded. Fueled by my own version of a life-affirming experience, I felt as though I was taking back 10 years of my life. I think you'd need to show that male reporters are not allowed into female locker rooms to show a double standard. And yes, he gave me a pat on the shoulder afterwards. I remember being scared because I hadn't known how the locker room was going to look or smell or who or what I would have to wade throughliterally and figurativelyto find this man. Locker rooms are overrated. ), "Hey, if you know so much about sports," he continues, "let's see if you can answer this question: Who was the last NFL running back to also play quarterback in an even-numbered Super Bowl? I asked. I did not want to smell the entire ride home, so I decided to take a shower. The hamster in my mental Wonderwheel never seems to stop running, so my mind keeps a lot of thoughts going at once. I feel like because we get paid so much money, and were such macho dudes that everybody is like, fuck em.. I hate to invade their pain and their anger and sometimes even their happiness. Had all that I'd put up with just been for nothing? By now I wouldn't really notice if he'd worn a towel or hadn't. 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. Robin Herman, a gender barrier-breaking reporter for The New York Times who was the first female journalist to interview players in the locker room after an NHL game, has died. He said he would have me thrown out physically. Bill, who's Michele Tafoya playing for? Three female reporters were denied access to a NFL locker room this weekend, because of their gender. SAGAL: Now, why is that because being a reporter seems like a hard job? 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? There were nights in the stands, too, where, just so I could enjoy the game more, my daddy patiently tried to teach the basics of scoring to a child not yet versed in addition. 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. Its a bizarre world that weve come to live in. [10], After the incident became public, Olson was subjected to harassment by fans of the Patriots. Oh sure, at first they think it's pretty cool that you're the only person at a party who can remember Neil Lomax's name or that you can name all the Rangers managers in 18 secondswith a shot in your mouth. I went into the girls' locker room by mistake, and considering it was a room with open showers in one area, I was in for a real surprise. SAGAL: Actually, it was B with George Washington. 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. 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. We won some awards, and I gained some confidence and perspective. NBA teams play 82 games a year, not including playoffs and preseason contests. But how can you really profile a guy if you haven't seen his coffee table or the junk stuck to his fridge? Ball on the reporter in female nfl locker room change to. And there was Reggie, in nothing but sanitary socks. 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. Scoreboard: Caps Ovechkin Outdoes Pens Crosby and Malkin, Rangers First Pick Is One With Ties to the Islanders, Devils Work a Trade So They Can Select Brodeurs Son, Islanders Make Deal With Wild Before Selecting a Defenseman in the First Round. I was 22 years old and the first woman ever to cover sports for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Before that, reporters thought they understood games better than the athletes playing them, largely omitting the player and coach personalities that make sports stories into something more than hits, runs, and errors. Olson worked as a sports columnist for the Daily News for ten years. 2023 Vimeo.com, Inc. All rights reserved. But that's while they are still trying to maneuver you quickly into bed. I was amazed. [9] She was assigned to cover the Boston Bruins, the 1990 Super Bowl, and, beginning in the fall of 1990, the New England Patriots. Now, there are no F-bombs. Or at least that's what I thought I said. Affirmative. TAFOYA: And so if they come up with any other days of the week, I'll be happy to try those, as well. 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. Getting the killer quote? It was like a club that I wasnt invited to, and unless I whispered the secret code word correctly, I would never gain entrance. 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. And you know, they all say that word so well. All the culprits are either long gone or have actually apologized, saying they just didn't know better at the time. In an interview on the March 11, 2011 edition of Bill Simmons' podcast, "The B.S. 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. Now almost everyone had stopped watching football and was watching me and Reggie. Ludtke said she constantly reminded people that she never demanded to go in a locker room. I stopped myself because he might not take it right. TAFOYA: So I went to Charlotte, North Carolina, and I did five hours of sports talk radio every day, and that was my SAGAL: That is the hardest job in the world. Women will kick up a fuss about men being in a women's locker room, and men should do the same with women. Mortified, I pondered my attire (a baggy smock top and pants). I ran out of material 10 minutes ago. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. 1950) is an American sportscaster who worked for ESPN and NBC Sports beginning in 1987 until 1993. from NPR. My understanding was the brat later had a good talkin'-to with the manager and the GM, and as far as I know, the closest he would ever get to the bigs was buying a ticket. So what? Phyllis George Brown, a former Miss America winner and the first female sportscaster to work at a major network, died on Thursday after complications from a blood disorder she had developed. 26 photos, First published on August 12, 2011 / 12:24 PM. And every once in a while I think about slatted billboards and a daddy's arms. I asked one more time interrupting. As I steamed over this, I took a shot of courage (a cold Starbucks Caf Latte) and pondered my circumstances. Its a mind-numbing thing to experiencegetting complete wrapped up in a job and not noticing the other stuff around you. I began bicycling and training for a marathon. He said he chose to run this piece in tandem with Roger Angell's piece because, all else aside, they were stories by a couple of kids who grew up loving baseball. Solutions . 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. At the same time, my marriage began taking ugly, unspeakable turns. Maybe I'd never fit in. Sometimes you have to stand around and wait while your guy gets ready, so reporters will pull out their phones and pretend to be reading emails . Here I was in my white flats, some fresh-out-of-college madras plaid skirt, one of those ridiculous spiked hairdos with tails we all wore back then, and probably enough add-a-beads to shame any Alpha Chi. The media circus surrounding professional sports is fed in part by this particularly odd sort of press access. instantly became the news and television cameras swung to them. But I learned to do news as well. It wasn't Reggie or pro-locker-room banter. One day, she went unannounced to see an editor of the Boston Herald and asked for a job. 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 New York Jets owner Woody Johnson personally apologized for the team's behavior. God, I can't believe someone didn't warn me, I thought. Sometimes I will request an interview at someone's house, and my peers act as though it's weird. Of course, Rader would have spat corn at anybody. My daddy and I saw our first major-league game together on Opening Night here in 1972. 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 . My most innocent comments were greeted with sexual innuendo. Now that is underrated, and the goal of every reporterits what keeps us focused. 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. 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. I had to go in. Answer (1 of 4): After reading Carrie Rickey's answer, I have to say that no one ever gets this story right. Herman, though, found herself a part of a much larger moment, a wider-ranging battle for equality in the workplace for women. It was She was a member of the first class of women at Princeton University. Michele Tafoya is the Emmy award-winning reporter for NBC's Sunday Night Football, but she's spent time on basketball courts, softball diamonds, gymnastics mats and now public radio quiz show game grids. So everyone's kind of shuffling around. The biggest cultural difference between reporting on sport in the UK and across the pond is that everyone here is allowed into the locker-room. A, on Women's Day which is a holiday named after a magazine. Although Olson settled a civil suit, fans of the football team made threats on Olson's life in the aftermath. I said, "Raffy says you want to see me." I was so happy I was almost crying, but I was trying to sound very nonchalant while Glenn was giving me the particulars. Gardner later moved on to NBC,. Nope, in fact, I was invisible. I felt like a cancer victim who was finally ready to give up the fight because it meant giving up the pain and humiliation. She lives with three dogs in her happy bungalow in Texas. After five years as a sports reporter, she moved on to write about science and health, leaving the rest of the battle to others. It was supposed to be about the fact that I had some negative things to say about my early work environment. By then, I had become accustomed to the nudity and byplay of the locker room. It was important to be bold. The MBL, NBA and NFL followed shortly after, and in 1990 all associations allowed women in the locker rooms. Some nights I walk out the back door where all the wives are waiting, and they stare at me strangely, as though they think I'm the woman Cosmo warned them about or something. Gayle had heard the Fort Worth Star-Telegram higher-ups had had a meeting that morning regarding my continuedor discontinuedemployment. 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. After criticism, Kiam apologized for the joke two days after he had told it. Take the blanket no-comment dished out by Dallas Cowboys star and alleged domestic abuser Greg Hardy after a game last year. I can look back now and see I was sunk early, my heart hopelessly immersed in a severely codependent relationship with a kids' game played by grown-ups. ' Herman said. SAGAL: You're going to say B, he got back to London but couldn't be readmitted because he wasn't wearing a jacket and tie. Perfect. Once you have a live camera or microphone in front of you, youre a different person, says Eskenazi, who covered a variety of sports over his long career. Those memories dont come cheap, of course. "Are you going to talk to me or not?" 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. What was fascinating to me was getting to hear the teasing between players, how they gave each other crap, she says. You know when the line has been crossed because you know about the culture that youve entered . He let me do it. Then, just as I walked in the door, it struck me that I was five feet, three inches tallabout the height of an NBA crotch. Vikings fans got to agree with that. I sat at some random desk to look busy for a while, which is what sportswriters do every week or three. SALIE: Men, that was all men, that was all men, sister. Bill, how did Michele do on our quiz? But its the same answers to the same questions.. Another superior had his assistant let me off early so he could be waiting for me in the parking lot. He joked, he smiled, and he was a great first for me. SAGAL: I got to ask you about the locker room. Maybe McDonald's was hiring. 2 min read Independent media will not have access to locker rooms during the upcoming NFL. Am I right? SAGAL: What's the worst reaction you've ever gotten in that situation? To begin, I want to point out that female reporters have every right to be in the locker room as male reporters do. 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'm serious, they really ask this. About two yards down, I see legs behind the batting cage. Other interviews are illuminating for the answers they dont elicit. But the remarks still hurt. Acceptance will be given if you represent your profession in the highest degree. I've wanted to write stories about baseball since I was 10 years oldto write words so good that people would read them twice. It's the way we measure all people, the Homo sapiens equivalent of sniffing butts by the fire hydrant. But some paranoia lingers. first female sports columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, where she covered rugby union, Australian rules football, cricket and rugby league. Herman, who is now assistant dean for research communications at Harvards School of Public Health, has written about that night many times, including a first-person article in the Times a few weeks later. He'd pull me out of school at lunch once a year to go to the spring baseball luncheon and take me to games early so I could collect autographs. 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. The other was a first-person piece about the last game at Arlington Stadium. Her family were fervent sports fans. The balls with the signatures still sit on my mantel, most reading like the tombstones of major-league also-rans. During the 1977 World Series, the MLB commissioner's 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. By then I had researched what day shipment was due in bookstores. It was also the Bear's last season. SAGAL: So you are and have been for how long now, the sideline on-field reporter for NBC's "Sunday Night Football"? The potential downside of the setting, meanwhile, is obvious: A poorly framed NFL Network shot this year showed Cincinnati Bengals players, pictured over the interview subjects shoulder, unknowingly giving viewers the full monty. After I poured myself out in the "Locker Room" piece, I was a bit empowered. I didn't give it a whole lot of thought as I went into the office that day. Steam Food Of Industry. And what if someone saw me in this state of trepidation? I immediately got a call from Gayle Reaves, a founder of the Association for Women Journalists. 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? If the locker room is where athletes can be themselves, that change may be the most challenging. And yet, 40 years after Robin Herman became the first female reporter to enter an NFL locker room, women are still fighting a war against rampant sexism in the industry, with Twitter. Youve got limited time to talk to the players before they leave, so make hay or fail is my mantra. But hey, I was the center of attention on a baseball field; I could sell out for that. Definite double standard here . 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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. Ludtke said when I sent copies of their responses to the Rangers' front office. She faced off against the MLB commissioner and won access a year later, but the . A, while he was gone, the club had viewed the classic Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch and decided Mr. Palin was too vulgar to be readmitted to the premises; B, he got back to London but couldn't be readmitted because he was poorly dressed; or C, he tried to drive himself to the club in central London but got lost? The next year, I was booted because I couldn't do back flips. I had enough natural talent, I felt certain, that with one high heel in the door, I could work my way into a writer's jobmaybe even someday cover baseball. TAFOYA: All right, Daniel. She was drawn back into the controversy as other sports faced their women-in-the-locker-room moments most famously in the court case brought by Sports Illustrated so the reporter Melissa I corresponded with them for another two years before the call finally came. He could not allow me to bother the guests. But then Donna likes the men she meets at Baja. It was critical no one smelled fear or I'd lose respect from the get-go. The Herald editor offered her a position handling horse-racing agate. Before The Best American Sports Writing for that year was in bookstores, I went on a Thelma and Louise-type journey with a girlfriend. SAGAL: And is this something you always wanted to do? TAFOYA: Oh, gosh. (He was a recent addition to the team.) I think how cool it is to watch a stadium yawn to life. But back in 1975, Robin Herman, a 23-year old reporter for the New York Times, had been trying to get NHL teams to allow her access to locker rooms for a year, with no success. The first time I saw The Best American Sports Writing, I wasn't anywhere near good enough a writer to gain entry into that elite company. I said, "Well, you better get used to it now, because there are women all over clubhouses in the big leagues. We were a middle-class family of four with one kid just a few years from college and another a few years from kindergarten. to persuade N.H.L. 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. All she wanted was to be afforded the . You get a really honest reaction, and thats what makes stories good., Some of the best locker room reporting comes when the unthinkable happens, reminding us that these gods between the lines are just men and women outside of them. In fact, after 10 minutes in a locker room, you dont notice anyone naked. It's been 46 years since the first women entered a professional locker room when two female reporters were allowed to conduct after-game interviews in the locker rooms at the 1975 N.H.L. 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. Michele Tafoya, welcome to WAIT WAITDON'T TELL ME! So I stepped down the tunnel from the dugout to the clubhouse and peered around the open door. I always won the big awards in elementary school, went to football games, and performed in talent shows. For years I was hopelessly mired in phone answering and score taking, watching as others in similar positions moved up and on. I pushed open the door and gazed into the visitors' locker room, a big square chamber with locker cubicles lining its perimeter and tables and chairs scattered around the center. Yeah, my ode to the old stadium won it all. But I dont see any other solutions.. 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. Would it be awesome if they were better ventilated? She was a travel writer and at the end of a marriage, and we were traipsing around the Four Corners area. But this was something else. SAGAL: That's what you do. We laughed and remembered when Desmond Reed finally scored a touchdown and he lit up telling me, I couldnt even enjoy it. teams to grant her access and not all agreed quickly. I was close to giving up. I have complained little through the years because the last thing I ever wanted to do was to single myself out from the guys. The issue at hand was equal access to the players in the locker room for all reporters, regardless of their gender. "Are you going to talk to me or not?" 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