We’re finally lifting the embargo on the Erin Andrews tape. We’re not posting it, we’re not posting links to it, we’re not posting screencaps of it, we’re not posting one shred of it. We haven’t even watched it, and if you’ve got any respect for women, neither will you. It’s creepy as hell and illegal, and we wanted to avoid all instances of cheap pageview farming by posting some boilerplate outrage.
But if what Harvey Levin, the executive producer of TMZ, told Dan Patrick a couple days ago is true, then this is a deeper issue than just one isolated incident of gross perversion. Apparently there are multiple tapes. And from multiple hotels.
(So wait, this, via LSUfreek and EDSBS, is actually possible?)
The revelation was slipped into Hour 3 of Patrick’s podcast from Wednesday during a call that was initially about that now-known-as-lame video of Jordan Crawford dunking on LeBron. Here’s what Levin told Patrick:
Patrick: Erin Andrews. Now you guys are looking at this, maybe it was an inside job, maybe somebody that worked with her. Is that what you’re hearing?
Levin: Here’s the thing. We’ve now seen six clips; there are six clips to this video. Four of them are from one hotel room. […] You can tell. The other one is a totally different room in what looks like a totally different hotel. […] So whoever it is not only knew her travel schedule but also knew what room she was staying in. So there’s some suspicion that this could be somebody who was with her as part of what she’s doing. So now ESPN has come out and said that they are looking into this.
Patrick: I talked to somebody I used to work with and that was the feeling, that you had to know her schedule and when she would be in her room.
At this point, it seems brutally obvious that somebody at ESPN is behind this; the “GOBLAZERS” username on the uploader to the original site is either A) a red herring or B) an indication that the video got out of the hands of whoever at ESPN was spying on Andrews.
Also, though, it should be obvious that with the footage, it would be easy enough to figure out where the cameras were. And if they were put through walls instead of the door, it stands to reason that whoever had access to the other side of those walls - and that’s got to be a pretty limited list.
It’s a weird, strange notion to think that if somebody is famous enough, not even a hotel room with the shades drawn is enough of a safe haven from prying eyes. But lo and behold, that’s what we’ve got, and that’s a damned shame. Andrews has agency in what she does in front of the camera, just as every television personality does. Unless there’s a stunning revelation, it’s safe to say she had no agency in the making or release of these videos, and that alone - to say nothing of the gross invasion of privacy - makes them just plain reprehensible.
3:58 pm on July 24th, 2009
If you have seen the videos someone needs to tell me how a peep hole moves. In one of the clips she bends over and drops out of the picture, then a second later the peep hole moves down to capture her again. WTF??? Obvious that it is someone with something in front of the lens to make it look like a peep hole. And almost appears she knows she is being filmed if you watch her actions.
4:03 pm on July 24th, 2009
You “take the high road” now after the crap you posted after it was announced that Mickelson’s wife had cancer? Hypocrisy at its best.
4:16 pm on July 24th, 2009
BC beat me to the punch…this blog site has the gall to add the phrase “respect women” in it’s post (Simona Halep anyone?!?)…did you forget about the numerous post/pictures of Erin’s backside??…it’s almost like ESPN sticking it’s head in the sand with Ben R pretending it never happend…just look at the current Top 10 posts of the last 24 hours…the top 8 are QB w/ chicks, EA or other sex related items…come on Brooks, you’re better than that!!!
4:47 pm on July 24th, 2009
Come on Dude, i was first introduced to your site because of the women on it, and frequented the site because of the women on it, and NOW youre gonna take the high road?,
I think you dont wanna piss off ESPN being that you appear as a guest on some of their radio stations, and thats how most of the people in So Cal heard of your site
And of course the Erin Andrews video was an inside job..duh
Lets look at the facts, they book a camera crew on the same floor all in a row…like room 100 is the talent room 101 is the camera guy 102 is a producer etc, it only makes sense that a camera crew member did it, they have a camera, theyre in the room next to her, and no one will find the camera because they are not gonna leave it behind.
4:59 pm on July 24th, 2009
The calls for hypocrisy are slightly justified imo. All week this site has bashed (and in its history) for other sites for ignoring news at their discretion. The EA case, as awful as it is, is SbB own case of cherry picking the news it feels fit for its site. My sympathies to EA, but I am disappointed in SbB.
PS the quip about “any respect for women” on a site that has done probably more than any other site to objectify EA as talented window dressing is riotously funny to me.
5:25 pm on July 24th, 2009
And besides, when Brooks downloaded it, it crashed his server for a full day….
5:39 pm on July 24th, 2009
I respect women - respect how sexy they are!
7:35 pm on July 24th, 2009
OH SURE!!!! You seen it and now youy’re tell us we can’tr. Great just freeken great!!
10:42 pm on July 24th, 2009
didn’t i post this in the comments two days ago?? told you guys it was someone from ESPN who was the one who filmed E.A….
and hah @ respecting women, she let herself get filmed so people would watch, I’m not going to deny her that, I’ve watched it as has every other real man and true American in our great country…
3:18 am on July 25th, 2009
Where are the links? Where is the video?
Here you have knowledge about a MAJOR Sports Broadcaster and your “keep it under wraps”?
Because we like you so much we can MAYBE understand but “teasing” went out in middle school.
Take care and God bless.
10:10 am on July 25th, 2009
Someone please, please I beg you, who cares about her?? tell me what you see in this women, She is as bland as plain white yogurt?
So maybe Im missing something, not sure? Now give me Megen Fox, and Natalie Gulbis and we have some real beauty.
7:41 pm on July 25th, 2009
Megan Fox = OVERRATED
8:41 pm on July 25th, 2009
FYI, the videos suggest that EA’s rack is NOT surgically enhanced.
9:57 am on July 26th, 2009
Brooks, Erin Andrews is not going to marry you, she is not going to have sex with you, probably won’t even talk to you. So PLEASE spare us the sermon on how hateful to women this videotape is. About 99% of pop culture is mysoginistic when it comes to sex, and YOU my good man, have been a purveryor of female objectification for quite a long time. Don’t be a hypocrite, it’s unbecoming. Now that the object of your obsession is targeted with a sex tape (albeit, I DO hope the peeping tom-freak who violated her privacy gets locked up) you’re above the fray. PAH-LEASE…
12:04 pm on July 26th, 2009
Being worried about Erin Andrews? Worry about the fact that the hotels where the footage was recorded are hotels were ANYBODY’s footage might be recorded, not just a celebrity’s. Even more than the name of the guy with the camera/video, the names of those hotels are important to the general public.
7:29 pm on July 26th, 2009
The important distinction between what happened to Erin Andrews (assuming that like me you do not credit theories that she was part of the scheme) is that this tape was taken without her permission, in a place where she had every right of an expectation of privacy. We are not talking about paps snapping her as she sunbathes topless on a yacht in Monaco harbor.
This might be Brooks’ way of saying this is too creepy, crosses a line even for him - and yes, he’s done plenty, plenty, plenty to objectify women (and Erin Andrews) on this site. And I think most people would agree with him as far as that goes.
Is Brooks a hypocrite? Insofar as he gleefully fills the site with skin - sure. But maybe it’s nice to know there’s a still a sense that even he is willing to draw a line - and so far as I know, every chick pic he’s posted has been posed or at least in public. And I hope that doesn’t change.