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Lewd cheerleader videos, sexist rules: Ex-employees decry Washington's NFL team workplace
David Fahrenthold RetweetedPost Exclusive: “We have a hotel room,” Redskins owner Dan Snyder allegedly told one of his team's cheerleaders, urging her to join one of the team's doctors. “Why don’t you and Tony go upstairs and get to know each other better?”
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Lewd cheerleader videos, sexist rules: Ex-employees decry Washington’s NFL team workplace
By Will Hobson, Beth Reinhard, Liz Clarke and Dalton Bennett
AUGUST 26, 2020
In “Beauties on the Beach,” the official video chronicling the making of the Washington NFL team’s 2008 cheerleader swimsuit calendar, the women frolic in the sand, rave about their custom bikinis and praise a photographer for putting them at ease in settings where sometimes only a strategically placed prop or tightly framed shot shielded otherwise bare breasts.
What the cheerleaders didn’t know was that another video, intended strictly for private use, would be produced using footage from that same shoot. Set to classic rock, the 10-minute unofficial video featured moments when nipples were inadvertently exposed as the women shifted positions or adjusted props.
The lewd outtakes were what Larry Michael, then the team’s lead broadcaster and a senior vice president, referred to as “the good bits” or “the good parts,” according to Brad Baker, a former member of Michael’s staff. Baker said in an interview that he was present when Michael told staffers to make the video for team owner Daniel Snyder.
Snyder and the team provided no comment after they were given repeated opportunities to respond to this and other allegations in this story.
Michael adamantly denied the allegation.
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Alice Crites contributed to this report.
By Will Hobson, Beth Reinhard, Liz Clarke and Dalton Bennett
AUGUST 26, 2020
In “Beauties on the Beach,” the official video chronicling the making of the Washington NFL team’s 2008 cheerleader swimsuit calendar, the women frolic in the sand, rave about their custom bikinis and praise a photographer for putting them at ease in settings where sometimes only a strategically placed prop or tightly framed shot shielded otherwise bare breasts.
What the cheerleaders didn’t know was that another video, intended strictly for private use, would be produced using footage from that same shoot. Set to classic rock, the 10-minute unofficial video featured moments when nipples were inadvertently exposed as the women shifted positions or adjusted props.
The lewd outtakes were what Larry Michael, then the team’s lead broadcaster and a senior vice president, referred to as “the good bits” or “the good parts,” according to Brad Baker, a former member of Michael’s staff. Baker said in an interview that he was present when Michael told staffers to make the video for team owner Daniel Snyder.
Snyder and the team provided no comment after they were given repeated opportunities to respond to this and other allegations in this story.
Michael adamantly denied the allegation.
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Alice Crites contributed to this report.
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