The San Francisco 49ers' front office is under fire for an in-house training video that including lesbian porn, off-color racial jokes, a parody of gay marriage, topless blondes, and star linebacker Julian Peterson playing the part of a panhandler,the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.
The Chronicle said some of the 15-minute video was filmed at the City Hall office of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and was supposed to give players a primer on how to handle the media in the diverse city.
49ers team lawyer Ed Goines told the Chronicle that the video "is absolutely contradictory to the ideals and values of the San Francisco 49ers."
The team has scheduled a news conference at 2:30 p.m. ET today to address the issue.
Public relations director Kirk Reynolds, who developed the video, is now looking for a new job, the Chronicle said.
The Chronicle said the video was shown to 49ers players last year at the team's training camp in Santa Clara after a diversity workshop, which Reynolds organized after an anti-homosexual comment by running back Garrison Hearst.
"I thought it was one of the funniest things I ever saw," cornerback Mike Rumph told the Chronicle. "The locker room is like a fraternity. The outside world can't really judge that."
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Among the video's key moments are a wedding featuring a topless couple who engage in heavy petting; the 49ers' then-trainer and martial arts expert George Chung depicting a stereotype of a Chinese man saying among other things "My brother's name is Suck Young -- my whole family suck"; and a scene starring 49ers linebacker Julian Peterson who helps demonstrate at a Santa Clara County jail on how to cope with being arrested, the Chronicle said.
Mayor Newsom's press secretary Peter Ragone told the Chronicle that the mayor gave Reynolds permission to use City Hall with the understanding that the video was a training film.
"They didn't tell us anything about its content,'' Ragone said.
The Chronicle said Newsom called Reynolds an "idiot" as he was shown the tape on Tuesday.
The Chronicle said that, in one scene, a topless, lesbian wedding takes place at the city's famed Mitchell Brothers' O'Farrell Theater and administered by Reynolds, who acts as the mayor.
"I know the courts say we can't do this," Reynolds says in the film, "but like my predecessor, we make our own rules here in San Francisco.''
After the the couple takes their vows, they drop to the floor and engage in serious petting. One of them says, "Go 49ers'' as the camera turns away.
Reynolds then says toward the camera, "As you guys learned in diversity training, people have diverse lifestyles. You may know someone or have a family member with a diverse lifestyle. So embrace diversity — embrace it."
Then a black man and white man prepare to be married, the Chronicle said.
In a scene in Chinatown, then-team trainer and martial arts expert George Chung — wearing glasses and with buck teeth — translates an article in an Asian newspaper:
"Tim Latte (Rattay, a Niners quarterback)," Chung says. "He feel good now. He feeling good. No plactice with the team, so most of the time he play with himself."
Chung later says, "49ers love being in community. Very patriotic . . . support president and his George Bush erection."
"Erection?" Reynolds asks.
"Yes," Chung responds. "It say, ‘You like Bush — then you like his erection.'"
Chung also says, "My name is Suck Hung. My brother's name is Suck Young — my whole family suck."
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:53 pm Posts: 20537 Location: The City Of Trees
This just shows even further how critical good ownership is. John York and Dan Snyder have completely wrecked two once-power franchises. Jim Irsay turned around an utterly awful Colts franchise previously run by his father Bob. Ditto Bob Kraft with the Patriots. Paul Allen saved the Seahawks from possibly moving. Etc, etc.
Joined: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:47 pm Posts: 9282 Location: Atlanta Gender: Male
with all the bullshit PC minded PR lame asses in the country it's pretty funny someone would come out with a training video like that making fun of the various stereotypes and the mayor. Especially in San Francisco.
Of course it's in poor taste but it is pretty funny.
being a Falcons fan I could give a crap less if SF ever gets their team out of the toilet though I'm sure they eventually will. Too bad this came out to the public. This is a politicians wet dream, they'll jump all over the 49ers trying to prove how sensitive to each group they all are.
It's pretty obvious the biggest problem in SF is the ownership and half assed front office decisions.
Joined: Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:43 am Posts: 18418 Location: Anytown, USA Gender: Male
lowlight79 wrote:
this is the funniest thing I have read all day, it makes you forget that they were once a proud franchise
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I don't know why anyone expects anything more than stupidity from football players. Getting mad about this is like getting mad at a 2 year old for shitting itself.
You know what, after watching the video, it didn't seem like a big fuss to me.
Perhaps.
But it sure puts the team and the league in a negative light. I wonder what Tagliabue thinks about this. I wonder what he will (or even can) do about this.
The league works pretty hard on it's image. And this will become a big black eye to the politically correct crowd out there.
It will be interesting to follow the fallout of this.
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:26 pm Posts: 14525 Location: Buffalo
This is lame. The material was meant for a locker room, not exactly the most politically correct place on earth. If anyone's offended by it, get a life, this isn't meant to be a 49ers PR video. Every locker room in the NFL and sports in general has stuff like this. Whoever leaked this is a douchebag coward.
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