Pro Football Talk hosts Mike Florio and Charean Williams addressed the new Dallas Cowboys scandal involving several Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders being paid $2.4 million by the Cowboys because recently retired senior team executive Richard Dalrymple reportedly snuck into a cheerleaders locker room, recording them while they changed clothes.
Each received $399,523.27 after the incident. Interestingly, Dalrymple strangely continued in his role with the Cowboys, for nearly six years after the settlement.
Even more, when the Cowboys live-streamed some of the scenes in their “war room” during the 2015 NFL Draft, a lifelong Cowboys fan claimed to have seen Dalrymple take an “upskirt” photo of Charlotte Jones Anderson, a senior vice president and most importantly, daughter of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
Dalrymple was accused of using his security key card, entering the cheerleaders’ locked dressing room, hiding behind a partial wall, extending his iPhone toward the cheerleaders while they as a group were changing their attire.
Florio expressed he was informed by NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy that the NFL is declining comment “because this is a club matter.” Florio stated, “It makes no sense to just shrug this off as a club matter. The entire Washington Commanders scandal is a club matter.”
Florio exposed the contradiction in the NFL stipulating Washington could not investigate itself and demanded the NFL not permit “Dallas to investigate itself either, because they may be inclined to cover it up completely… The personal conduct policy stipulates these things are to be reported so the league can take action… How in the hell is the NFL getting away with not investigating this?”
Charean Williams: “I sort of take offense with Dallas actually saying there was no wrongdoing… He said he was going to the bathroom. There are bathrooms in the Cowboys locker room before you even get to the Cheerleaders locker room… “
Florio: “One of the reasons they paid the money and one of the reasons they found there was no wrong-doing, they don’t want anyone to start asking questions… The NFL saw what happened with the Washington Commanders and so let’s not go stirring up a pot that may eventually explode in our faces, like the Washington Commanders situation has done.”
Florio would like the Congressional committee to add this incident to their Washington Commanders report because it is also sexual misconduct in the workplace of an NFL franchise.
Florio: “Congress, do your thing. You are already in the neighborhood. You are already on the front porch of Daniel Snyder. Just walk next door and gently rap on Jerry Jones’ door. I know he is not going to like it, and I am not saying he is involved. But he is responsible for everything that happens in his house.”
Williams: “There does need to be an independent investigation… there may be more out there, who knows what this executive knows, or is going to say in the future, and I am sure the Cowboys are trying to put a stop to that.”
Florio: ”This is stuff people go to jail for; this is heinous activity. This is not something you turn a blind eye to and walk away. You’re filming people while they are changing their clothes? Are you freaking-kidding me? It’s a club matter? Get out of here with that! I can’t believe it!
Williams: “There may be nothing to happen next. Which is obviously what the Cowboys and the NFL want, which is for this to go away.”