Portis on female reporters: "...somebody got to be appealing to her."

Re-post it here, please. This thread could use it.

 

I've seen guys grope themselves during interviews and have even gone out their way to make situations uncomfortable, even for people appropriately dressed.

 

Bad form, but what the heck:

You know it, baby. All 53, one at a time, all at once, don't matter. Especially after a game, when you're all covered in rancid camel snot, and smell like the rest of the rancid camel after it's baked dead in the desert for a few days....just line up all the packages, while the espn video guy cracks us on the back of the head with his camera trying to get the live shot....let's just roll around on that big Redskin logo, ouch, my hair's stuck in that big wad of...of athletic tape, what did you think I was going to say? God, from down here you can really see what's in the carpet, those your toenails and loogies, honey? Over there, more packages! I die of embarrassment! Cut my eye, baby, cut me, CUT ME!

 

So you're saying you'd prefer to wait until after the shower and maybe a quick splash of Aqua Velva?

 

I would rather drink the Aqua Velva.

 

It's why I usually stick with "Toots."

 

I wish we still had the thread about the whitlock column (maybe 2005 or 2006?) that basically said what portis said....that women are just human, they like sex, they can't possibly be around all those naked guys and not get a little tingly about it.

Hilarity ensued.

As many pointed out over those few days, a used locker room is one of the worst places in the world, civilized or unciviled. Crowded, stinky, frantic, rude, intolerant, packages everywhere 8) ...we don't want to be there.

We don't look. We don't want to look. They are looking to see if we are looking, and they never forget if they catch you looking. It's a terrible way to do your job. It's not a perk or a thrill to be in that locker room. It's not sexy or attractive. Please, just let me do what I have to do and then get the hell out of here.

And I really think even today, many men don't completely believe it, because they think they would look. Men look, it's how they're wired. Porn and magazines and whatever....men get turned on visually. Women have a different mechanism.

God, I am sick of this subject.

 

I think some of us were trying to let that one go. Otherwise, this turns into a bunch of questions about which door the female reporter let him have later.

 

Here are the particulars. Wyche accused a young
TV reporter of "looking" at guys. It was the kid's first time covering a pro football game and she didn't know who to talk to or what to do. We struck up a conversation during the day and she asked me if she could follow me around on interviews. It was no big deal, something I'm sure you have done for youngsters during your career.
Anyway, when the Bengals opened up their locker room, Wyche started with women in the locker room shit. He didn't name the young lady by name, probably because he didn't know her, but she was the only one there.
That's when I kindly spoke up and told Sam I am that he was wrong with his accusation. I give Wyche credit. He did apologize and if I remember correctly, adopted a policy where female reporters could enter the area only after the guys were robed.

 

I've never been comfortable in a locker room interviewing someone. Some vile shit goes on some times.