I did not request their creation and I never saw them.” In a statement released hours after this story was published online Wednesday, Snyder wrote, “I do not have any knowledge of the ten-year old videos referenced in the story. Snyder and the team provided no comment after they were given repeated opportunities to respond to this and other allegations before the publication of this story. Baker said in an interview that he was present when Michael told staffers to make the video for team owner Daniel Snyder. The lewd outtakes were what Larry Michael, then the team’s lead broadcaster and a senior vice president, referred to as “the good bits” or “the good parts,” according to Brad Baker, a former member of Michael’s staff. Set to classic rock, the 10-minute unofficial video featured moments when nipples were inadvertently exposed as the women shifted positions or adjusted props.
What the cheerleaders didn’t know was that another video, intended strictly for private use, would be produced using footage from that same shoot. In “Beauties on the Beach,” the official video chronicling the making of the Washington NFL team’s 2008 cheerleader swimsuit calendar, the women frolic in the sand, rave about their custom bikinis and praise a photographer for putting them at ease in settings where sometimes only a strategically placed prop or tightly framed shot shielded otherwise bare breasts.
