Reporting coach's comments to team

And the world returns to some sense of normalcy.

 

To paraphrase Jerry Glanville, this is the NFL, or Not For Long when you're 1-3. Fair game.

 

It's pros.

It's legit.

 

would and did

 

OK, what if you're standing in a spot that only the media would be in and you overhear a tirade? Is it still fair game? I tend to think not and don't use it. But maybe I'm being too cautious.

On a side note, tirades are amusing to listen to when you are not the object of them.

 

Well, the only people who could've heard Lewis' tirade last night were Bengals team folk, a few stadium personnel and the media waiting outside the locker room.

 

Use anything you hear.

 

Use what you hear that can be modified for print. Don't attribute it to Lewis unless you know without a doubt it was Lewis.

 

Would you use it if, instead of a dressing-down, that team won and you heard whoops and hollers and screams and other quotes from an obvious victory celebration?

I would, and I did. So, I make no distinction between winners and losers. If you can hear it, happy or angry, you can report it.

 

I've used it on the high school level and didn't hear a peep about it. I didn't say it was profanity-laced, but it was something to the degree of: Coach Woodcock was infuriated with the mistakes his team made in the game and let his team know so behind closed doors.

I think the readers can figure out that Coach Woodcock was using words that rhymed with luck and hit.

 

I heard a high school coach tell his team to come out ready to play next week so they can "make their assholes pucker up!"

I didn't use it. Should I have?

 

um, no.