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Erin Andrews Peephole Video Scandal Shows Pro Sports Culture is Nothing But Bad

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shadddanfo of AR 3:18PM October 24, 2009

The bottom line as I see it is that this woman is a feminist. She has an agenda. She probably feels very badly for Erin and this is her opportunity to say that all male sporting activity is bad. It makes them animals. It breeds this kind of behavior. Her underlying thesis is that we should boycott sports and make them suffer financially. Bring it all to an end. Sports teaches nothing good. Thats crap. I've supported my kids through baseball and wrestling and will continue to support them because of what it teaches...team work, team spirit, conduct, how to win and lose etc. I became aware of this scandal very late, yesterday as a matter of fact. This woman will never see the end of this. Thankfully, as one commenter stated on another blog, the video links are loaded with enough malware to kill a horse. This will bring an end to the search for her video, but the damage is done. The perv who did this should be, if convicted, forced to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. She will have to put up with it that long, why shouldn't he.

GAK in Florida of FL 10:08AM September 16, 2009

Thomas Jefferson is Ridiculous.
It's a double standard to assume that women shouldn't "prop"-up men's sports and instead stay home and solve men's sexual desires by raising their "sons". That's insulting to both genders.
A woman professional has the right to report the news: when she is intelligent, understanding of the game like other professionals in her field, and is lucky enough to be good looking...attracting both genders to the sport, to the franchise, to her her station...she should be respected as a professional.
What happened to Erin Andrews has nothing to do with the sports culture in which she works, it simply has to do with a crazy sexual deviant who deserves to go to jail. That's it. It wasn't because of "Male Sports" that this event happened, it's because some crazy stalker...or maybe some stupid kid with a college crush...was sick enough to invade her privacy.

Thomas IS Lame and Sexist of CO 4:03PM September 05, 2009

Bonnie is right in some ways.I watch male sports a lot and i am female ,its like in the world at large women sexuality is used to attract men.We have cheerleaders on the sidelines,females athetes use as pinups and younger female sports reporters not understanding what the older female reporters was up against to break down male control in sports reporting.Bonnie may seem harsh but i think she means well.I think there is a lot to learn from big sisters in the media that been around a while.

jackie 1:39PM August 08, 2009

Ever consider that maybe women watch sports because they enjoy doing so?
You actually just said that men behave badly because women watch sports.What? My girlfriend is watching the NBA game, makes me want to film some illegal pornography. Right.
"allegedly through a keyhole in the door to her hotel room" Who is alleging that?
"the wild west we today call the blogosphere" Huh?

John Doe of WI 2:59PM August 07, 2009

The date is October 12, 2006. A freak winter storm hits the Western New York Area over several days, much of the area is totally immobilized from the snowfall, fallen trees, loss of power and public services. For an area repeated kicked in the teeth from the 1970s, its just another blow to deal with. This time the landscape isn't scarred by closed business fronts, manfacturing plants gone silent, but 1,000s of falled trees littering the landscape ... many of which were a 100 years old and older. The mentality of the area, bleak. Its soul, bruised.
Fastforward to October 14th. The Sabres return home to play a home game against the Rangers. (Added to the belly of their plane are as many generators as they could find and get onto the plane.) The area is is shambles, but the game is played and the Sabres jump all over the visting Rangers after going down 0-2. The arena is nearly filled to capacity with few no-shows. drury scores his first hat-trick, the Sabres just beat the red Wings in Detroit. Recovery and positive attitude begins to return to the area. The Sabres are not a small part of this.
"You see the number of people show up ... kudos to them,"Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff said."That was a big lift for our team." Netminder Ryan Miller also echoed Ruff's post-game comments.
Maybe WNY is too tied to its sports teams, maybe, but men watching sports is not all bad. In fact, I hazard a bet that most of them doing so isn't bad. Your premise is so off base that its laughable. It comes down to being a good parent or not, just stop blaming the thing that's most convenient. If your kids are bad, its not Rodney Harrison's fault, nor id it the drunk guy sitting in the stadium next to you and your kids.
http://www.letsgosabres.com/pressbox/fullstory.php?newsid=10960

JC of MA 10:11AM July 31, 2009

Just because one ignoramus decided to do something out of line, doesn't give you the right to get on your high horse and take a radical stance that pro sports culture is evil. What's evil is producing a lousy journalism idea for the purpose of making a dollar or two. Way to hijack an area of culture that brings so much joy, happiness, and togetherness to the people of the United States of America. The reality is that pro sports are here to stay, Men battling on the athletic field are here to stay, women who enjoy the culture that comes with college football pro football baseball basketball etc. are here to stay, and there is nothing your article can do to change that. Period. Being a female reporter in a male dominated sector of society is going to bring with that a lesser level of privacy due to increased exposure. Erin Andrews knew that a long time ago. She certainly didn't deserve what happened, but that doesn't mean that the entire female sex should make a mass Exodus away from pro sports... worst logic I have ever heard.

J.D.B. of SC 12:23AM July 31, 2009

"I wish women would stop propping up men's sports. If women didn't attend NFL games or NBA games, or even watch them on TV to help drive up ratings, they would be doing more to stop men from behaving badly than they could ever do otherwise."
This has to be one of the most simplistic suggestions I have ever read. Is this writer for real? Is USNews for real? Is this so-called writer really trying to apply the actions of an immature pervert to an entire aspect of American culture? LOL!
My daughter, my husband and two sons will be tailgating again at Giants stadium, thank you very much. We'll also be attending more Yankee games too. What a joke of an article.

Mrsgmenfan of NY 2:48PM July 30, 2009

I have a daughter. I will encourage to watch sports as much as possible as she matures (not pay attention to millionaire holdouts and steroid scandals, but watch games). She'll learn how to win, how to lose, how to behave in a sporting manner, how to compete and how to constructively channel her daily frustration into a nightly release of taking in a game.
If you think there were absolutely zero women involved in spreading the Erin Andrews situation, you're as naive as the sports-loving women you criticize.
Of course, there's nothing right about what happened to Andrews, but really, what does that have to do with the games themselves? The only tie-in I can see is that Andrews does a sub-par job of sideline reporting for some games. So does that mean that all female sportscasters and reporters, who only in the last 15 years or so have made real strides in trying to level the gender gap in their chosen profession, should walk out on their career dreams?
And as for your argument about women boycotting games, get real. I enjoy watching sports with my wife, and I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to watch games with us, but a lot of men would quite frankly probably prefer to watch sports only with their guy friends. That would hardly do anything to stop men from "behaving badly," as if my watching a Bills game means that I'm going to go loot the corner liquor store or something.
And ask Yankees fans who remember the team's run in the 2001 playoffs - right after Sept. 11 destroyed their city and their hope - if sports culture is nothing but bad. Ask sports fans of last-place Olympic participants, who still wave their flags and cheer on their athletes as the competitors meander to the finish line because it's that you finish that really matters, if sports culture is nothing but bad. Ask father-and-son golfers whose sole connections are the rounds they shoot and watch together if sports culture is nothing but bad.
The Andrews situation was reprehensible, but the leap of logic you make to vilify the sports that are played - and the women who like them - is illogical, irrational and makes you sound incomprehensibly unintelligent. The only waste of time here is you.

Paul Lane of NY 10:31AM July 30, 2009

Are you SERIOUS? By your logic, you should be at home encouraging your son to play sports rather than writing this dribble.
Wow, lady, let me congratulate you for your proposal to send the women's movement back to the stone age.

Women are People Too of NJ 9:02AM July 30, 2009