How was it working as a woman in this world? Because obviously there's a lot of controversies,

especially at this time in the 80s, early 90s, about women being in sort of the sporting world.

I remember there are a lot of conference about women's in the locker room and this sort of stuff.

How did that any of that impact do?

What it did for me was it made me better. Because when you're in the, you know, you call it the

media scrum and it's a, it's an NFL media Wednesday and you've got, you know, 20 reporters,

you know, gathering around Shannon Sharp or Ray Lewis or whoever it was and, you know, Warren Sapp,

difficult people like Warren Sapp. And you have to like, you know, you're in there, you're trying to get your mic in and all these big, fat, smelly male reporters. And I was like, okay, that's helpful. Number one, but number two, because it was all male voices, I knew that when I spoke, it would sound different and it would maybe stop some people. So what came out of my mouth

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