Green Bay Packers Say “Not Acceptable” to Ringing Cell Phone

At a news conference on Wednesday, a cell phone went off, and ended the event early.

Head coach Mike Sherman was about 16 minutes into his normal 25-minute news conference answering a question, when a cell phone began to ring. The Packers cancelled the rest of the press conference when the culprit failed to admit his mistake and apologize.

“This wasn’t a knee-jerk reaction,” a team spokesman said. “This is a problem that’s been ongoing for several weeks, and despite repeated attempts to ask people to turn off their cell phones before every single press conference, it continued to happen.”

Hopefully this sets precedent and the media and everyone else listens. Show respect, and turn off your cell phones in the situations that common sense requires it.

“I don’t understand that,” Sherman said as he walked away from the podium. “That stuff to me … is a total lack of respect for each other. Forget me, you don’t have to respect me. But respect each other.”

November 4th, 2005 Posted by David in News at 12:04 pm Comment Now! »
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