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Jets Owner Apologizes To Mexican TV Reporter Over Players And Coaches Behavior
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September 15, 2010, Wednesday
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MEXICAN TV reporter Ines Sainz said on Monday she has received an apology from New York Jets team owner Woody Johnson for the way players and coaches treated her during a visit to the team's practice.
Sainz, a reporter for Mexico's TV Azteca, said that she had received the apology in a telephone call from Johnson. "I don't want to make it a bigger deal," said Sainz. "I have confidence in the NFL and the Jets' management and I know that this will serve as a precedent so that this does not happen to another women."
Sainz said on Twitter that she felt "very uncomfortable" in the Jets' locker room during which a coach appeared to throw footballs in her direction and players called out to her.
During defensive back drills on Saturday, Jets assistant coach Dennis Thurman seemed to deliberately throw to players near where Sainz was standing on the sideline. Even linebacker Jason Taylor, who normally doesn't participate in those position drills, went out for a pass.
At the end of the drill, head coach Rex Ryan threw a pass to Thurman, who caught it, ran toward Sainz and appeared to speak to her very briefly. "Of course you feel it when you are being stared at and when you are being spoken of in a certain way," Sainz said. "I opted to ignore it ... I tried to not even pay attention."
She said waiting in the locker room to interview quarterback Mark Sanchez may have been the most uncomfortable, tweeting that she tried "not to look anywhere!!"
"It was an uncomfortable moment because you are in the team's dressing room and they are obviously changing clothes, showering - doing what they do every day in the locker room," Sainz said. "So being a woman, obviously it was a bit uncomfortable."
Sainz, a reporter for Mexico's TV Azteca, said that she had received the apology in a telephone call from Johnson. "I don't want to make it a bigger deal," said Sainz. "I have confidence in the NFL and the Jets' management and I know that this will serve as a precedent so that this does not happen to another women."
Sainz said on Twitter that she felt "very uncomfortable" in the Jets' locker room during which a coach appeared to throw footballs in her direction and players called out to her.
During defensive back drills on Saturday, Jets assistant coach Dennis Thurman seemed to deliberately throw to players near where Sainz was standing on the sideline. Even linebacker Jason Taylor, who normally doesn't participate in those position drills, went out for a pass.
At the end of the drill, head coach Rex Ryan threw a pass to Thurman, who caught it, ran toward Sainz and appeared to speak to her very briefly. "Of course you feel it when you are being stared at and when you are being spoken of in a certain way," Sainz said. "I opted to ignore it ... I tried to not even pay attention."
She said waiting in the locker room to interview quarterback Mark Sanchez may have been the most uncomfortable, tweeting that she tried "not to look anywhere!!"
"It was an uncomfortable moment because you are in the team's dressing room and they are obviously changing clothes, showering - doing what they do every day in the locker room," Sainz said. "So being a woman, obviously it was a bit uncomfortable."
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