Cincinnati Bengals center Ted Karras has revealed that players being caught naked on camera is one of the reasons the NFL wants to close locker rooms to the media.
On Friday, the NFL Players Association called for restrictions on locker room interviews, saying they were an invasion of players’ privacy and urging members to seek interviews outside the locker room during the week.
Reporters regularly mingle with players in the locker room on game day and practice days, putting media members in close proximity to athletes, courtesy of media policies that the players association called “outdated.” .
‘Players feel that locker room interviews invade their privacy and are uncomfortable. “This is not about limiting media access but about respecting the privacy and dignity of players,” the NFLPA said in a statement.
“We, the NFLPA Executive Committee, urge the NFL to make immediate changes to foster a more respectful and safe workplace for all players.”
Ted Karras has revealed that players being caught naked on camera is one of the reasons why the NFL wants to close locker rooms to the media.
Reporters regularly mingle with players in the locker room on game day and practice days.
Earlier this week, Bengals star Karras explained that a couple of players were caught naked while interviews were being recorded.
“As you’ve heard from a couple of teams now and the NFLPA is going to issue a statement, in an effort to protect the sanctity of the locker room and the comfort of the players, each team is going to find a schedule as to where we conduct our interviews outside.” the locker room,” said Karras, the team’s union representative.
‘Now, this doesn’t stop you from entering the locker room. We can’t do that. But what we want to do is get the cameras out of the guys in private moments in our locker room.
“What brought it to light, actually, was a couple of guys getting naked on camera this year. It’s happened a few times in the history of the league.”
On Friday, Kyle Juszczyk criticized a San Francisco 49ers reporter in a bizarre discussion about locker room interviews.
The NFLPA did not name any specific reporters, but Juszczyk highlighted reporter Grant Cohn, who covers San Francisco for Sports Illustrated, on social media.
Kyle Juszczyk called out a 49ers reporter in a bizarre discussion over locker room access
Juszczyk accused journalist Grant Cohn of “hanging around our lockers while we were changing”
“Maybe we can stop Grant Cohn from always hanging around our lockers while we change,” the 49ers fullback said.
“I’m starting to think that certain 49ers players don’t like me,” Cohn wrote on X, formerly Twitter, shortly afterward. He then shared an article calling for the 49ers to sit Juszczyk and added, “I stand behind this.”
Meanwhile, two-time Super Bowl champion Torrey Smith accused reporters of looking at players’ private parts.
“If they only knew how uncomfortable some of the male reporters act,” she wrote in social networks.
The Pro Football Writers of America said in a statement: “NFL players asking to speak outside the locker room has always been part of the league’s media access policy.”
“We are continuing discussions with NFLPA executives regarding media access policy,” the statement said. “The goal is to make everyone feel comfortable in the locker room and for players and clubs to follow the NFL’s media policy.”