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That's what kind of got the fire going on this recent NFLPA jumping in saying,

hey, yeah, how come reporters are even in the locker room?

That's a little background on that.

Now, let's talk about, Brian, how come reporters are even in the locker room and should they be?

It's deeply weird.

I think every reporter in there would tell you the same thing.

The reason they're in there, it's just for convenience.

Like, football game ends.

You have 50 plus people on each team, and you need to talk to a whole bunch of people.

So how are you going to do that?

Like, what's the easiest way to do that? You're either going to have them stand there in their pads sweating outside the locker room while you go to each one of them. I was thinking of the Cowboys Steelers game the other day. Let's say one of us was a Cowboys Beat Rider and we were trying to do it alone. How many people would you want to talk to after that came? Dak, for sure, right? We got, you know, we need an update on Marshawn Nielan, right?

DeMarion Overshown showed out, so we needed an update on him. We got, you mentioned

dowel fumbling at the goal line. I'm going to talk about that, right? Winning touchdown.

I mean, there's, there's so many guys to talk to, to do it efficiently. You do them in one place. We should also add that when the guys are in there, they are effectively cornered, right? You have to go in, you have to get changed, and then you have to come back to your locker and meet the press, right? So there is an element of that, too, that this is advantage for sports writers. If I sit next to this guy's locker, he is going to come back to your locker and meet the press. Right. So there is an element of that too, that this is advantage for sports writers. If I sit next to this guy's locker, he is going to come back and I'm going to get my two minutes with him or a minute or whatever it is. I'm going to get my question into him. I think a lot of players have said, well, we want to just replace this with something else. Now, whether they want to actually replace or just get rid of reporters out of the locker room altogether, not totally clear to me, but they would just not like them in their business like that. Like, locker room needs to be private and needs to be sanctified. So, I mean, that's pretty much it. I mean, you know, and in the players have a proposal, what if we had this other room outside where we all sat in and talked to you postgame and then we went in the locker room, you didn't follow us in? If you could be workable with that, I think, you know, report, if that were to actually make sense, like 50 people plus all the media in a room that's an extra room next to the locker room or however you want to do it.

That would make sense.

But it's always funny to me because I hear a lot. I mean, where you used to hear this on the ticket, people used to be like, you don't need to be asking players questions right after game. I mean, that's who cares about the answer they give. And then every ticker, every 20 minutes would have sound from the cop with the locker room. I'm like, dude, you quit the, you quit the post-game interviews first, and then you can complain about it. Yeah, I know if you just said, well, we'll just put them on podiums. That's also just, it would take forever, and it's sanitized. Yeah. Highly. It's sanitized. And also it works in the NBA because there's like four guys right after a game you want to talk to. It's not the same in the NFL. I mean, you're just thinking about the Cowboy Steelers example I just gave. There's a ton of dudes you want to talk to after a game. And it was always weird to me, too, just from my one road trip covering the Cowboys. Jerry talks at the same time. It's not like he goes to the podium like McCarthy does or like Dack does or like Garrett did. So you have to choose? Yeah, you're like, how does this work? Yeah. Okay, well, here's... When Jerry do it like in the locker room right before it open, like out to the door so the reporters are waiting to get in and he has the captive audience? Right. But some guys are running in there. They're getting ready. They use Jerry's cover almost. Like they would try to get ready while Jerry was still talking so that they could make their way out. Yeah. It's a really weird deal, especially just, you know, a progressive guy, whatever. It's still weird to have women in there, to me. It's just puts them in a... Just what dongs hanging out. Incredibly uncomfortable situation. Yeah. And I think it's uncomfortable for dudes, too, but I don't know. I just... It's a very weird thing. It's just grandfathered in, I guess, and it it makes no sense let's ask a question i know no one

answer no one knows the answer to this how does the wmba handle it

because they clearly don't let dude reporters in there while they're changing

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