Not content with leaving well enough alone, Bears linebacker Lance Briggs weighs in on the recent controversy regarding female reporters in locker rooms. And it gets worse with each successive quote:
↵↵"I don't regret what I said," Briggs said. "My statement is, the men's locker room is for men, just like the women's locker room is for women."↵ ↵
"It shouldn't be a big deal, period," Briggs said. "This is the same place where grown man are taking showers. It's the same place we (use the bathroom). ... This is our realm. And the media has been welcomed into our realm.''↵Briggs first addressed the subject Wednesday with reporter Peggy Kusinski of NBCChicago.com.↵↵
According to ESPN Chicago's Sarah Spain, the language Briggs used was a bit more colorful:
↵↵Lance Briggs: "the locker room is where we shower and take our dumps." TMI, Lance!! #bears↵↵
Nice, Lance. Real nice. He goes on, a bit more reasonably:
↵↵"I don't think women should be in the locker room," Briggs told Kusinski. "The locker room is the place where us guys, us football players, we dress, we shower, we're naked, we're walking around and we're bombarded by media. A lot of times I'm asking the media to wait until I'm dressed."↵↵
Ask the media to wait till you're dressed? Fine. But that should apply to men as well as women; the battle over female sports reporters in locker rooms was fought and won more than 25 years ago. Get over it, Lance. They're just doing their job, they're not in there looking at you. Wish these guys would grow up.
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