For what has been reported, he called at least one of the team scouts a racial slur and he verbally and physically sexually harassed a few female employees. The details of how can be found on the SI article, and it doesn't paint a good picture.What did he do exactly? I thought this franchise was and has been moving in the right direction....
Friday was Jeans Day, when most staffers at the Carolina Panthers team offices would wear denim to work. The female employees knew what that meant. As the team’s owner, Jerry Richardson, made his rounds on the way to his spacious office, he would ask women to turn around so he could admire their backsides. Then, in his rolling Southern drawl, he’d offer comment, drawing from a store of one-liners he’d recycle each week. Among those in heaviest rotation: Show me how you wiggle to get those jeans up. I bet you had to lay down on your bed to fit into those jeans. Did you step into those jeans or did you have to jump into them?
Richardson was also known for what multiple women call the “seatbelt maneuver.” He would invite female employees out to lunch, and in keeping with his reputation as a self-styled gentleman, he would open the car door for his guests. Once they were seated, however, he would insist on fastening their seatbelt for them, reaching across their lap and brushing his hand across their breasts before putting the belt in the clasp
Agreed. Sounds like Richardson used the same inside-the-car trap tactics as Herman Cain did. Must be some correlation between bad behavior and bad fast food with these two.Not sure why people are acting like Richardson is some kind of victim here if the allegations are true. It's pretty telling that shortly after these allegations come out, he announces he's selling the team and if I read the information correctly, there have already been settlements paid out because of his actions. If a "normal" guy tried to pull that stuff, he'd have been fired long ago. It's a textbook case of a guy with money and power abusing that power (again, if the allegations are true).
If he was truly innocent here, it seems like he would be vehemently denying it rather than saying nothing and selling the team.
This was my thought when I found out he had put the For Sale sign in the yard. Even guilty people will usually go down swinging unless they're so inescapably screwed that it's better to just own it. The fact that he's trying to go quietly tells me there's a lot of substance to the rumors.If he was truly innocent here, it seems like he would be vehemently denying it rather than saying nothing and selling the team.
Just out of curiosity, where does local/state politics belong, it seems like politics forum is too broad for that sort of stuffAlright guys,
We don't want to see this go to far off the rails - I've tried to do some clean-up here. Going forward, discussions about the sale of the team, Richardson's ownership, and the allegations from the SI article, are fair game. Beyond that, any discussions like the SJW/PC culture/millenial/old boys club/Thanks Obama/ stuff will be deleted. If you want to talk about that there's a Politics forum on HF that happens to have a thread on this.
NASCAR track around the football field like Bowman Gray! Dragstrip down the middle?Marcus Smith has voiced interest in buying the Panthers along with Bruton.
Just out of curiosity, where does local/state politics belong, it seems like politics forum is too broad for that sort of stuff
They won't miss youWhy did Diddy say he would put Kaepernick as QB of the Panthers if he bought them? Talk about destroying a fan base!