49ers' training video includes lesbian porn, racial slurs, barbs at Newsom

[democracyindanger]

It was meant to be funny -- but no one is laughing now in the San Francisco 49ers' front office over an in-house training film that featured off- color racial jokes, lesbian porn, a spoof of gay marriage and a trio of buxom, topless blondes frolicking with team public relations director Kirk Reynolds.

The 15-minute video, some of which was filmed in the City Hall office of Mayor Gavin Newsom -- who comes in for a few unsubtle swipes -- was intended as a primer on how players should handle the media in diverse San Francisco.

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First stop, Chinatown. Reynolds says the team reads everything written about the players and the organization. Then, to illustrate the point, a bespectacled, buck-toothed Chinese man in an aloha shirt (played by then-49ers trainer and martial arts expert George Chung) is asked to translate an Asian newspaper story.

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Newsom, whose office was used in the G-rated opening scenes, was chagrined when shown the tape Tuesday.

"Not good -- not good,'' the mayor said as he watched the scene with the Chinese man.

After the lesbian wedding scene, Newsom shook his head and said, "What an idiot."

At that point the mayor rose and said, "OK -- that's enough."

[gaspee]

1. Link?

I'd like to read the entire story.

Thanks.

[Mojambo]

3. Here's a link I just found

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/01/state/n121828D98.DTL

[democracyindanger]

4. Oops. Sorry, thanks.

[sasquatch]

2. Jesus, that's on a GWB level of stupidity

Hey guys, you're in San Franciso, not some Fascist hellhole like Houston Texas where you can say stuff like that.