During the Monday Night Football broadcast from the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City, ESPN sideline reporter Lisa Salters had to tolerate the heavy rain without an umbrella.
Salters, 56, is a trail blazer when it comes to women reporters in sports and she never shies away from the elements.
It’s not the first time Salters goes out on the rain, so at this point, it’s likely her decision not to use an umbrella.
NFL Twitter was going crazy seeing Salters getting soaked, with some going as far as to say that ESPN was committing a hate crime.
ESPN horror stories never cease to stop coming up, but not many are as ridiculous as when Adam Schefter thought he got kidnapped in Mexico City.
Adam Schefter ‘kidnapped’ in Mexico City
Schefter, 55, is an NFL insider for ESPN who somehow always steals the headlines himself.
He recently emulated Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousinsby going shirtless with multiple chains, but his real 15 minutes of fame happened when he showed no empathy in his reporting of Dwayne Haskins‘ death.
Now, Schefter is going viral over a story with racist undertones from the last time ESPN traveled to Mexico City for an NFL game.
“Last time we went – back in 2019 – they wanted to make sure we were taken to the right areas,” Schefter said on the latest episode of his podcast. “We’re at the game at the stadium, and there were people shuttling us back to the hotel. There are people that walk you there – like ESPN security people – and somehow I lost them. There were these two guys that said to me ‘Let’s go, we’re going back to your hotel’.
“I said great, so I get in this car, and regarding two minutes in, I realize ‘Oh my god. What did I just do? I just got into the car of strangers – men I don’t know – and I don’t know where they’re taking me right now’. I’m thinking to myself that I can’t believe I’m in Mexico City, and I’ve been warned not to go near strangers. ‘I just got kidnapped’. I’m texting co-workers ‘Am I in the right car? Did I go back with the right men to the hotel?’
“And I’m not joking to tell you that I was panicked. My heart was racing. I really thought I had gotten in the wrong car and I was off to who knows where. But, fortunately, it was the right car.”