Posted on 09/18/2010 4:28:31 PM PDT by tobyhill
The NFL will implement a workplace conduct training programme after finding the New York Jets acted unprofessionally in the case of a female television reporter who said she felt "uncomfortable" in their locker room.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said the conduct of the Jets "clearly should have been better" but also stressed that his investigation of the matter found no evidence that TV Azteca reporter Ines Sainz was "bumped, touched, brushed against or otherwise subjected to any physical contact" by any player or coach.
Goodell said it did appear that during the practice some Jets team members purposely threw footballs in her direction.
However, in a letter to Jets owner Woody Johnson, Goodell said: "Sainz herself was unequivocal in saying both that no physical contact occurred, and that no player or other Jets staff member made any comment or gesture that could be construed as threatening, demeaning or offensive."
The upshot is that the NFL will implement a training programme for all 32 teams on proper conduct in the workplace and the programme will be underwritten by Johnson.
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Gee perhaps if the female reporter didn’t wear pants that looked painted on and a shirt open to her navel just maybe she wouldn’t have got the attention she was dressing for? Call me crazy but why dress for attention then get all bent out of shape when you get what you were dressing for?
I only selected this topic for the pictures. Where are the damn pictures?
You got that right.....the locker room is NOT the workplace for the reporters, it’s the workplace for the football players....and
according to the LAW, things like a “hostile work environment” and “unwanted stares” constitute sexual harrassment....
NEVER should female reporters been allowed in the locker room, and once we got female sports reporters NO reporters should have been allowed in, just to be fair...
Where’s the players’ union?
A few years ago, some players’ wives were complaining about female reporters in the lockerroom getting a little too close to the nekkid husbands and were seen doing more than a little staring.....
When will she do her nude Playboy spread?
I saw pics of this reporter and she has an incredibly womanly figure...she dresses to highlight her fantastic body. Who is kidding who? Those men should all drop their towels the next time she comes in for “work”. Poor little girl will probably get the vapors and have to be rushed to the hospital.
I can't stand what (a lot) of women do to men these days. Ugggggh. I feel for the normal guy these days....Our culture is going down the toilet...and women who are supposed to help humanity be civilized are some of the least civilized.
So are those pictures bookmarked? LOL
Seriously, I don't know how she can complain after she shows up at the ballpark looking like a prostitute
That's THEIR place, why should they have to sit covered in sweat and dirt so the media can get their story? All reporters should stay out until the players are done.
...or make everyone wear nothing but a towel, level the playing field as it were.
We live in the age of political correctness. Or stupidity. Or an era with a lack of any common sense. Or an era where some people are perpetually offended by things which just couldn’t have happened years ago.
Why do girl reporters have some unalienable right to go into the locker room in the first place?
That's so true, there was a move by teams a few years ago to give the players more time before the reporters came in after the games, but the NFL nixed the idea when the media complained about their deadlines. The league sided with the media by saying *they* are here to help sell the product to the fans.
In a lot of ways I think the owners are with the players on this issue, but the league sets the policy. Most of the time the players don't mind the local tv and newspaper folks who they deal with all the time, it's the "special" ones like Sainz et al who cause the problems.
I think its his wife, she is the lib that left Fox. She seems like a “nag” I would guess that is why she left FOX she would never do the skirt thing.
Thanks! It’s a no-win situation for us guys. Really it is. I wouldn’t want anybody to be interviewing me in the locker.
Meet with me on the outside fine, but in the locker? Hell no.
I say from this angle
NOT GUILTY!
Pressure as in...go to the training or loose your job? Or perhaps...go to the training or you'll be heavily fined.
Call a spade a spade, Mr. Anonymous AFP Writer.
We'll know how effective the drone change is when the public apologies come out from these nipped former men.
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