A former Washington football team executive asked employees to create a behind-the-scenes video for owner Daniel Snyder, with clips of partially nude team cheerleaders from a shoot of the jersey schedule. bath 2008, reports the Washington Post.
Brad Baker, who previously worked for former senior vice president and senior broadcaster Larry Michael, told the Post in an interview that Michael told his staff to make the video for Snyder. Michael denied the allegations when reached in the mail.
“Larry said something like, ‘We have a special project that we need to do for the owner today: he needs us to get the right pieces of the cheerleader backstage video on a DVD for him. “Baker told the Post.
Snyder and the team have not commented after repeated requests from the Post.
One of the men Baker said was involved in making the video, Tim DeLaney, took issue with this claim.
“I’ve never been asked to create an outtakes video, and I don’t know of anyone who has created one or even been asked to create one,” said DeLaney, then vice -President of production in Washington and now vice president of broadcast and digital content for Arizona. The Cardinals. “I certainly would have remembered that conversation if it had happened.”
The newspaper also reported that a former cheerleader, Tiffany Bacon Scourby, said that Snyder suggested at a 2004 charity event that she join “her close friend” in a hotel room so that “she ‘they can get to know each other’. The team’s former cheerleader director was among three people who backed the account, the Post said.
The Post’s 5,500-word story also detailed what several women said was a culture in which women were objectified. Several women told The Post about an informal online “support group” for former team employees. Brittany Pareti, who worked for the team from 2007 to 2012, said of the culture: “It was like fresh meat for a pack of wolves every time a new pack of trainees came in. It was like siblings, with men lined up. in the lobby watching the women come in and out. You constantly felt that there were eyes on you. “
A 2017 email from Julie Kalmanides, the team’s only human resources worker at the time, said: “There was also a request that, if possible, women are not present in any football area. while the players are here. ” Kalmanides told the Post that senior executives wrote down the email and she distributed it.
Twenty-five women spoke to the Post about experiencing sexual harassment while working for the team. Most spoke of the condition of anonymity due to nondisclosure agreements or for fear of reprisal.
The latest revelations come amid Snyder’s stated commitment to improving the culture within the team following allegations of sexual harassment and a toxic workplace culture spanning 2006-2019 In July, a letter, obtained by ESPN, was signed by Snyder and his wife, Tanya, and sent to every member of the organization. In it, the Snyders apologized on behalf of the team and asked for everyone’s help “to build a better organizational culture.”
The NFL has said it will wait for a law firm’s review of the organization’s culture before acting.
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