NFL kept lewd footage of women cataloged with 'sexually degrading' descriptions, ex-employee says in lawsuit

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A former NFL human resources employee alleges that NFL Films, the league’s production company, has a catalog in its archive of "lewd shots of women," according to The Wall Street Journal.

Victoria Russell filed an employee discrimination lawsuit in New Jersey earlier this year, claiming she found "a chat room log tracking time stamps on NFL footage and linking the time stamps to sexualized and offensive descriptions of women captured on that footage." 

This came after she did a 2018 audit of the company’s human resources system. 

Russell, who was a temporary worker at the time, saw descriptions that included "cheerleader buttocks," "cheerleaders rear end," "close up of cheerleaders’ breasts; cleavage shot," "random woman, cleavage shot," "female fan in bikini top," "shot of endowed woman" and "naughty camera work."

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The NFL logo on the field prior to a game between the Green Bay Packers and Miami Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium Dec. 25, 2022, in Miami Gardens, Fla.  (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told The Wall Street Journal these "sensitive" images are marked to make sure no one uses it in future content. However, he noted that Russell’s allegations are inaccurate. 

"Those frames are logged as ‘sensitive’ so that they can be removed from circulation, meaning they will not be accessible to employees whose job it is to locate footage for productions," McCarthy said. "Ms. Russell didn’t have credentials for the logging system, nor did any aspect of her responsibilities involve accessing footage."

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