Video marketing. The next year, I was booted because I couldn't do back flips. The Liberty Line is owned and operated by TLL Sports LLC. As of 2013, she was working as a freelance writer.[1]. They were reporters and looked young enough to remind me of my old daysexcept they weren't wearing white flats. Or like Brandon Grahams locker is next to mine, and he has 40 reporters around him, and someone is bumping into my naked ass. And his eyes got to be like the size of paper plates because what I didn't notice was that he was buck naked. TAFOYA: But you do that all the time, don't you? 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. 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. There was no fallout at the paper. My dad was a buyer for Better Monkey Grip Rubber Company, and I'm not complaining. Except she. 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. I somehow persuaded them to open it and sell the book to me. I have assimilated to a large degree but probably never will completely. And I have shared that with very few people. 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. 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. Good God, all I had wanted to do was cover sports. 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. The NFL launched an investigation into the incident after Sainz, a veteran reporter, claimed footballs were thrown in her direction by a Jets coach during a practice - seemingly deliberately - and players later called out to her in the team's locker room. Then he held my head over the top of the wall in center. Build a site and generate income from purchases, subscriptions, and courses. It was at height of the womens movement, Herman said. The rest is all overrated. 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. TAFOYA: a player sitting next to him says, ma'am, could you just turn around and let the man put a towel on? That's when a security guard came up to me to ask why I was there. I've always considered the real hurdle of all this to be players' perception of me, not suppressing my thoughts. On this day in 1977, Melissa Ludtke was barred from reporting the World Series from the teams' locker rooms. Her family were fervent sports fans. We never wanted for anything we really needed, but my parents, raised in the Depression, were cautious about spending. 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. But I can understand the athletes being naturally uncertain what to make of women, of me. 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.". NBA teams play 82 games a year, not including playoffs and preseason contests. 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. She was 70. The repetitiveness and intensity of the format can be more frustrating. I hate to invade their pain and their anger and sometimes even their happiness. It began when I was 3 and my daddy took me to Turnpike Stadiumnow Arlington Stadiumto see the old minor-league Spurs. 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. Graduate. I talk to the coaches at halftime as they walk in or out of the locker room, and that's always a load of fun especially the losing coach. The executive types weren't too hot on the idea. 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. Women will kick up a fuss about men being in a women's locker room, and men should do the same with women. 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. Create and promote branded videos, host live events and webinars, and more. I had started wandering longingly over to the sports department, just to talk about baseball. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. We've invited Tafoya to play a game called "Enter at your own risk!" Donna doesn't like politics, so she asks what it is I do for the paper again. ADAM FELBER: Welcome back to You Disgust Me with Michele Tafoya. 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. 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. Theres a press area for that express purpose. But there's a strange sort of comfort in feeling that if they think I'm an idiot, it's probably not because I'm a woman but because I'm just acting like an idiot. Summoners Value War. I won't even look in their eyes. teams to grant her access and not all agreed quickly. For most of the guys who hang around for more than three dates, my job suddenly becomes a problem. Chris Long on dynamic of naked players, reporters in locker rooms, New York Rangers fans took over the Wells Fargo Center and Im glad it happened, WATCH: Every pitch of Andrew Painters 1st inning vs. the Minnesota Twins, Eagles Buzz: CJ Gardner-Johnson rips Jonathan Gannon on Twitter for Super Bowl performance, Spring Training: Umpires end Orioles vs Pirates game early, but both teams wanted to finish, calling the game themselves, WATCH: Operation Flagship How D.C. Police Lured Wanted Criminals in for Arrest by Offering Super Bowl Tickets. [1], In 2013, Olson's incident with the Patriots was addressed in the documentary Let Them Wear Towels, part of ESPN Films' Nine for IX series that commemorated the 40th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX. KURTIS: She did great because she got two right. 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. It's just before batting practice, about 4:30 p.m. 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. And there was Reggie, in nothing but sanitary socks. Several of the writers said, "I wonder what's up with that.". I broke several stories, one of which won a national award for investigative sports reporting. My most innocent comments were greeted with sexual innuendo. from NPR. 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. But that's while they are still trying to maneuver you quickly into bed. I asked one more time interrupting. Host virtual town halls, onboard and train employees, collaborate efficiently. 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. And it had just started to become something that women could do, and I thought I can do this. Not just people while Im pulling my pants up. It was like a club that I wasnt invited to, and unless I whispered the secret code word correctly, I would never gain entrance. More than two years ago, I told the sports editor I wanted to return to sports. At first, I thought he meant on the job. [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]. I wonder how these female reporters and staff would feel showering and changing with men in their locker room? I try to explain, which is difficult because Donna and I are on different sexual wavelengths. 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. Then Kevin Brown left the team and that whole bunch became as nice as could be. I said, "Well, you better get used to it now, because there are women all over clubhouses in the big leagues. . We drove to a mall in Santa Fe, and there were the boxes, taped, freshly shipped, in the front of the store. I compared my scar (a plate and six screws from a broken ankle) to Mark Tylers scar from his broken leg, with Mark proclaiming mine cooler.. Logic says they might not. I cant really think of something else thats similar to this, Bailey said. Or at least made me feel that way. Youve got limited time to talk to the players before they leave, so make hay or fail is my mantra. So what? I did not want to smell the entire ride home, so I decided to take a shower. 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. [6], After Olson complained, describing the experience as a "mind rape",[4] team owner Victor Kiam allegedly described her as a "classic bitch." Because of my vantage point, it appeared I would have to walk through the shower, through the four wet, naked men, to get to the actual locker-room area. I was ready to gnaw my way through the first one I saw that might have had the book in it. Sure.. The players dont care, I dont care, heynobody cares! For instance, there are things I might say to a friend or even a casual coworker that I wouldn't think a thing about, but I stop short of saying such things to the players. Maybe I should write news or features because I'll never have the fortitude it takes to stay on your toes with one-liners and be tough enough to handle this. All most know how to do is bitch about the Cowboys and Mavericks and Rangersabout their (a) record, (b) salaries, (c) coach or managerand praise the "kick-butt" barbecue they make before watching 18 hours of football on Sundays. If I ever dread talking to players now, it is not because I feel that I don't belong there. 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? He might not understand that I meant its thickness and shine were enviable. I explained again that I was a sportswriter waiting for Grant Teaff and pointed out other reporters, all men, around the lobby. I was surprised to realize that some of the wounds still hurt. I just wanted to cover sports. I asked Reggie, as everyone watched and listened. Fueled by my own version of a life-affirming experience, I felt as though I was taking back 10 years of my life. The hamster in my mental Wonderwheel never seems to stop running, so my mind keeps a lot of thoughts going at once. [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. I kept saying, Im not the story; the game is the story,' Herman said, reflecting on the night. Was I stared at? 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. 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. I was a common sight in and around the Rangers digs in those days, so it was no longer like I was some rookie, afraid to speak my mind. Several were guys who had been my superiors at one time or another and were just so gushing with their praise. 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. SAGAL: Michele Tafoya, we're delighted to have you with us. We lived in Arlington, about five miles from the ball park. He glanced sideways, kind of sneered, and stuck his head back in his laptop. As she wrote in a post on her own blog, I found myself forced to muster Supreme Court-worthy arguments for an inane, When I was 14, I heard from a friend that the Rangers would soon be hiring ball girls. "I am done, but I don't want him to think I am leaving because of him.". 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 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. So you've been in the Mavericks locker room? He had leis, candles, and the whole altar thing going on in his locker. I always won the big awards in elementary school, went to football games, and performed in talent shows. 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? Then it hits me: My job means I get to be around this game and write about it. "Do you think I am a prostitute?" 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. 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. 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. He. It was the lonely thread that tied me to my game. Man, did I ever realize how my attitude and courage level had changed. I've known one veteran NFL player for more than 20 years -- since he was in college -- and he tolerates women in the locker room but honestly believes we, including me, are there to look at naked . TAFOYA: All right, Daniel. I was ready once again to be the greatest sportswriter who ever lived. Rebecca Lowe who in March joined NBC Sports from ESPN and in 2012 became the first woman to present the FA Cup Final from Wembley Stadium has had hot dogs thrown at her by the U.K.'s infamous. I didn't want to be branded as some woman on a crusade. The New York Islanders arent shy about giving interviews in various stages of undress. 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. Vikings fans got to agree with that. He sobbed at his locker for 15 minutes after the game, as ESPNs Kevin Seifert wrote, later facing a gaggle of reporters. It was quite apparent who the poor influence was on that side of the barn. It's a place for changing attire and accessing personal belonging. But then Donna likes the men she meets at Baja. 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. They will look at her as one of the guys if she doesn't act like a chick. According to NBCChicago.com, Harris believes both members of the media and athletes should conduct themselves in a professional manner - gender aside. One editor in the chain of sports command kept trying to get me to check into the Worthington Hotel with him after work. I helped cover the team for the Associated Press. 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. Heck, with 10 percent of the population homosexual, there's a good chance that some of the male reporters are homosexual as well. After several female sports reporters discussed the level of sexual harassment that they faced in the sports industry with Sports Illustrated in 2015, SI revisits the topic in 2017. But there were a few giggles. 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 . I corresponded with them for another two years before the call finally came. Team dressing rooms are typically open to journalists before or after practices and games. 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. Some summers we went to 20 games; others we went to about 56. 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? published October 19, 2015. "May I talk to you?" From a New York Times obit by Richard Sandomir headlined "Robin Herman, Who Pried Open Doors in the NHL, Dies at 70":. Of the latest scores and many to. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. 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!" Prove to them you know your stuff, and you will have proven to them why you belong there. Once, after they'd let me try my hand at writing for a year or so, editors told me I'd never make a writer. 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. The other was a first-person piece about the last game at Arlington Stadium. After the game, he stood at the door of the locker room and told Visser, "There might be a naked boy in there, but I don't give a s___t." 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. If they're usually not allowed in, I wouldn't expect the teams to apologize for enforcing normal rules. The Star-Telegram phone began to ring. 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. SAGAL: Because I remember - this was now going back 20 years ago maybe SAGAL: when the first female reporters were working major sports, and they wanted to go into the locker room and do the same damn interviews that their male counterparts were doing. Male reporters are allowed in locker rooms both before and after games. Apparently a guy has to be awfully secure not to be intimidated by my frequent trips into locker rooms (as though I'm doing comparative shopping) or by my knowing a good bit about sports. Jerseys are on the floor, not on the playersno jerseys, no name tags, just toweled dudes walking around. While all this was going on, I began helping out with Dallas Cowboys sidebar articles and weekend coverage of the Rangers. We may earn a commission from links on this page. Melissa Ludtke was 26 years old when all this took place. And theyre very conscious that everything they say could get out.. 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. Nudity rarely bothered me, but I prefer never to see Nolan Ryan in anything but Ranger white or bluejeans. I began bicycling and training for a marathon. Reprinted here with permission from the author, who has also provided an afterword about the response to her story. I eventually walked over to Kenny, who was sitting on a stool by his cubicle. 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 first-person ode to Arlington Stadium was entered in a contest. Why the fuck can yall walk in, and we are half-naked? Ludtke said she constantly reminded people that she never demanded to go in a locker room. 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. It was time to go back to the dream. 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 walked over to him and asked how old he was. Whats more, players are increasingly media empires in and of themselves, lessening their incentive to cooperate with journalists. And blocked by virtue of being a woman Melissa Ludtke's landmark. Up until then, my assignments had been small-time: high school games and features on father-daughter doubles teams and Hacky Sack demonstrations. Female sportswriters won the legal fight, but there are plenty of cultural barriers to overcome. To begin, I want to point out that female reporters have every right to be in the locker room as male reporters do. She attended Apollo and Shadow Mountain high schools,[1] and graduated from Northern Arizona University's journalism program in 1987. 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. Like a son telling his mom, Way to go, you made me proud.. And that gives coaches and players less control over the story., Still, for most mainstream sports journalists, venturing into locker rooms remains a basic necessity to stay competitive. Or at least that's what I thought I said. She is a frequent guest speaker at schools and colleges, and active in public schools' mentoring program for girls who hope to study journalism. Well, Reggie Jackson was my first. I had offered the story first to my sports editor, Mike Perry (standard newspaper policy). Oh, Lord. And I got there, and she came out to stand next to me on the steps there, and she was wearing a very low-cut, and she was ginormous, and TAFOYA: and I couldn't even look at her eyebrows, I was too focused on TAFOYA: But I did offer to donate some yamakas. The reporters were covering the team's loss to the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. First Female Reporter In Nfl Locker Room. SAGAL: Or C, Benjamin Franklin became the first and only member thrown out because of his horrible morals? TAFOYA: I adored football growing up. 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. Olson later wrote a column apologizing to Wells for coming to his house during what was such an emotional time. It was like, you know, lady with a baby coming, lady in the locker room. By that time I had moved east to cover the Phillies. Someone has come out early for batting practice. Herman, then a 23-year-old reporter for The New York Times, had been trying for a year 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. 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. SAGAL: Michele Tafoya, ladies and gentlemen. It's not a place for socialising. Then I did something I had never done. I told her I hadn't heard about it, but would let her know, assuring her I would be the last to know if I had been fired. Maybe I'd never fit in. This Is Why Female Sportswriters Can Go in Men's Locker Rooms Melissa Ludtke, a writer for Sports Illustrated, is shown on the job in her office in New York, Jan. 23, 1978, when she was. She was previously a sports columnist for the New York Daily News, and the Many of the women they're aroundother than the reasonably stable ones like their wives and mothersare groupies. [5], On September 17, 1990, Olson was interviewing players in the Patriots locker room on a practice day. Complete Coverage of Ines Sainz on Crimesider. Needless to say, this was a must-listen from the jump. 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. 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. Sometimes I'd turn the sound down on the TV and try to do baseball play-by-play, too. 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. Yeah, my ode to the old stadium won it all. Gayle Gardner (born ca. 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