T-Bone
Rah - Rah - Raw
Raiderette Nude-Photo Scandal
Photography by Mark Daughn (Mystique-Magazine.com)
It would seem impossible to offend the Oakland Raiders' sense of
decorum, but cheerleader Danielle Gamba managed to pull it off. The
team fired Gamba when the organization learned that the 20-year-old
had posed for these (and other) nude photos for Mystique-Magazine.com.
HUSTLER: Tell us your story from the beginning.
GAMBA: I entered the Model Safari Competition [sponsored by Mystique]
last year. I never thought in a million years that I would win. It was
a pretty lengthy process of elimination. It would go month by month as
they narrowed it down to a group of girls. During that time, I had
tried out for the Raiderettes, and I made it. It was probably about
two months into the season that I found out that I won the contract
from Mystique. I ended up posing for them, and the Raiders found out
about it. They didn't appreciate the type of modeling that I was doing
and dismissed me about two weeks ago.
HUSTLER: How did the Raiders learn that the pictures were on the
Internet?
GAMBA: Honestly, I still don't know to this day.
HUSTLER: Is there any clause in the Raiderette contract that forbids
you from posing nude?
GAMBA: There is a morality clause. We can't do anything to embarrass
or offend the other girls, and it does include partially nude or nude
[photos].
HUSTLER: Have other Raiderettes posed nude before?
GAMBA: Yes. Based on my research so far, I've found one Raiderette
named Jane Lubeck. I didn't cheer with her, but she's actually a
friend of a friend, who told me that she had posed for [the September
1974] Playboy. She did quite a big spread for them and faced no
repercussions or anything.
HUSTLER: Why do you think you've been singled out?
GAMBA: I don't know. Like I said, the contract's black and white, but
there are other things, like Jane Lubeck's situation, that caught me
by surprise. Some of the girls have told me that there were strippers
on the squad in previous years who were just asked not to come back
once the team found out. They weren't dismissed or fired.
HUSTLER: Are you going to sue to get your job back?
GAMBA: No. It's not about legal justice; it's just a personal thing,
in all fairness.
HUSTLER: The Raiderettes put out their own calendar in which the girls
pose provocatively in skimpy outfits. Aren't the Raiders being
hypocritical?
GAMBA: I don't want to put any negative light [on it]. Like I said,
it's surprising, because we can walk around in G-strings in the public
out on the beach, wearing close to nothing, but then we can't take
pictures without removing that string.
HUSTLER: Are you lobbying to get back on the squad?
GAMBA: There's actually a petition going [around] right now at
www.Geocities.com/BringBackDanielleGamba
which is really sweet. I would love to come back if they would have
me, but right now it doesn't look too optimistic.
HUSTLER: Perhaps with the petition drive and all of this publicity,
the Raiders will hire you back.
GAMBA: Yeah, my fingers are crossed. I hope I'm not upsetting them by
doing these interviews.
HUSTLER: Is it fun to be a Raiderette?
GAMBA: It's fabulous. I worked so hard to become a Raiderette. All the
girls are great. There were so many different experiences that I had,
not just cheering at the games. I got to do a Fourth of July parade,
and we just welcomed home troops from Iraq at the [Travis] Air Force
base. I think that was my favorite.
HUSTLER: How long were you a Raiderette?
GAMBA: From May; so only about three months.
HUSTLER: Are you from the Bay Area?
GAMBA: Yes. I'm a native.
HUSTLER: Do the Raiderettes pay well?
GAMBA: No. You don't do it for the money, definitely. It was costing
me more money just to do the commute and drive out to Oakland three or
four times a week. That's okay. I love to dance, and that's what it
was all about. So it was worth it, no matter how much I got paid or
[was] in debt because of it.
HUSTLER: Did you get to keep your uniform?
GAMBA: No. They made me return it. I had to return it yesterday. I
kept it until the very last day that I possibly could.
HUSTLER: Do the Raiders allow their cheerleaders to date the players?
GAMBA: The Raiders are the only organization in the NFL that does
allow the cheerleaders to date [players]. All of the other ones have
rules against it.
HUSTLER: That's odd that they're the most lenient in that regard, yet
they fired you.
GAMBA: Exactly.
HUSTLER: Have you ever dated a player?
GAMBA: No, I haven't, but it was funny. [Bill] Romanowski just got
into a fight; he broke someone's eye socket at practice last week or
the week before, about the same time as my dismissal. People around
town were saying, "Oh, yeah, they got into a fight over that
cheerleader that got kicked off." I've never even spoken to either of
them; so it wasn't about that, but it was funny to hear that.
HUSTLER: The funny thing is that he probably won't get fired for
breaking someone's eye socket, yet you were canned for posing nude.
GAMBA: He got suspended for a day. I'm getting a lot of feedback about
that-- "It's nice to know that the Raiders have their morality all
correct and everything." They suspend Romanowski for one day, and I
get the boot for taking off my clothes.
HUSTLER: What do people at school say about all of this?
GAMBA: It's funny, because we just started school last week. The
teachers will be calling attendance-this happened a couple of
times-and they'll say "Danielle Gamba." I'll say, "I'm here," and
they'll say, "Hmmm, that name sounds really familiar, but your face
doesn't look familiar. But I swear I've heard your name somewhere
before." I'm like, "Oh, I don't know." I'm sure they probably just
read an article. Someone came up to me and said, "Hey, I saw you on
Celebrity Justice last week," and I didn't even know I was on. Little
things like that.
>HUSTLER: How did the Raiders learn that the pictures were on the
>Internet?
>GAMBA: Honestly, I still don't know to this day.
*cough* http://tinyurl.com/2jbx2 *cough*
The only "immoral" thing going on here is that she has to wear clothes at
all, ever, in the first place.
Andy
WERD!
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Andy
email: sweetandylicious at eml dot cc
>Dude, do you know this happened before last season even started. No wonder
>the Raidah's were so bad. Missed lil ol' Danielle. ;)
Yes I know when it happened. Did you even read the part that it was in
the Feb issue of Hustler? How could I have posted this before then?
Aww, never fuckin' mind. Yeah, that's why the Raiders were so fuckin'
bad! Because they missed some fuckin' bitch. Makes alot of sense now
that you mentioned it. <insert heavy sarcasam here>
T-Bone
Well actually bitches might have something to do it. After listening to post
season/Calahan interviews with Tim Brown, Charlie Garner, and Charles Woodson
apparently the Raiders had a locker room full o' bitches.
Um yeah, it said Feb. 2004 (your post). Then again, that issue was probably on
the stands back in December since it seems that Hustler (and Penthouse etc) are
usually released about two months ahead of the actual month that is stated on
the cover. And yes, I am a regular porn buyer.
In the interest of ASFPOR unity, I'll now, shut the fuck up. : )
"The Raider on a Rock" <theraide...@aol.commmm> wrote in message
news:20040227181320...@mb-m14.aol.com...
Make any?
<eg>
*snicker*
"The Shadow" <mie...@bright.net> wrote in message news:gtudnWrXHIn...@bright.net...
I guess I should have wrote that it was the Feb 2004 Online edition of
Hustler that this was in. At least that was where I got it. And I only
read it for the pictures. Any articles or interviews are just barely
noticed. :-)
T-Bone
Hope you made enough money off 'em to get that ski-doo you wanted. ; )
I actually enjoy the cartoons in the print version. Some of their pictorals are
okay though I am not a fan of the watersports that they seem to have in every
issue lately. Is the online version a paysite?
yes it is.. I know what ya mean about the watersports thing. It was
kinda cool the first couple of issues, now it's just ??? .. The
cartoons are great, in print or online..
T-Bone