The Locker Room

Recently, the New York Jets had an incident which occurred in their locker room with a female reporter. Supposedly, the female reporter was attempting to get an interview with QB Mark Sanchez. As she made her way through the locker room several comments were made about the reporter. Since this occurred there has been a great deal of concern rising amongst the teams about personal conduct policies.

In the 1960's, women burned their bras for to eliminate sexual repression and since then, women have been able to continue to banish the barriers of the career world and obtain almost all positions within America. However, to this day there are still major complications within the work place with men and women working together. Sexual harassment occurs in almost all work places and is still a rising concern. But why? Men are men. As a good friend of mine says, "How can you blame men? If you give someone two heads, how are they supposed to think straight?" The fact is, is that men are biologically constantly looking for ways to spread their seed. Sure. They could be more casual about it.

The Locker Room is just that. A locker room. A place where men swap stories of their latest conquests and tell lies about something that happened to them the night before. It is not a place for the press nor is it a place for a woman. If a hundred, testosterone ridden men are naked in a room, the last thing you want to do is put a woman in there. If this was the cave man days, she would have been torn apart.

Plain and simple.
The press, both men and women need to stay out of the locker room. Let the men be men in the locker rooms. The players need time to compose themselves before and after a game. Some of these guys have unique rituals that do not need to be given to the press. The players should be able to use the locker room as a press free zone to air their grievances amongst the other players rather than letting that get blasted throughout the news. The NFL should change their policies so that the press has an opportunity to talk with the players directly after the game and after they are in the locker room but not during.