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NEW YORK — As the first in-person NFL league meetings since December 2019 kicked off, two former Washington Football Team employees arrived in the lobby of the Intercontinental New York Barclay hotel in midtown Manhattan with a stack of letters multiple pages long, asking for the findings of the report into the team’s workplace misconduct be made public.
Addressed to members of the league’s social justice committee — Gayle Benson of the New Orleans Saints, Michael Bidwill of the Arizona Cardinals, Arthur Blank of the Atlanta Falcons, Jimmy Haslam of the Cleveland Browns and Shahid Khan of the Jacksonville Jaguars — the letter urged the NFL to “make public the findings of the investigation into the Washington Football Team.
“While your working group was formed to address issues of racial justice in the league, you also have the ability to seek justice for the hundreds of women and men, such as us, who bravely came forward to share stories of harassment and abuse we experienced while employees of the WFT. The NFL should not be allowed to encourage employees to come forward at great personal and professional risk to speak to investigators, only to sweep the results of that investigation under the rug.”
— Seth Wickersham (@SethWickersham) October 26, 2021
The league declined comment, saying that commissioner Roger Goodell would speak to the media over the course of the meetings.
“There are a lot of employees who are still scared and intimidated and threatened to come forward,” said former WFT marketer and cheerleader Melanie Coburn, later adding that she was “shocked” that the report hasn’t been made public.
“We deserve to be heard,” Coburn said.
Coburn and Ana Nunez, who used to work for WFT in sales, gave the letters to the front desk and were assured that they would be hand-delivered to all team owners in attendance.
Earlier in the day, Sports Illustrated reported that the Washington Football Team investigation wasn’t on the…
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Source : espn
