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San Francisco 49ers
    The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team. The team plays its home games in San Francisco, California, while the club's headquarters and practice facility are located in Santa Clara, California.
     public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most  director Kirk Reynolds thought he would show the team's players exactly what not to do when dealing with the media in a diverse city. Now he's apologizing for having done the wrong thing himself.

    Reynolds lost his job with the team after it was revealed that he produced a training video last summer in which he impersonated Mayor Gavin Newsom engaging in racist jokes and officiating at a wedding of two topless lesbians. "I know the courts say we can't do this," Reynolds says in the video, according to the San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the , right before the two women say "I do" and slink slink  
    v. slunk also slinked, slink·ing, slinks

    v.intr.
    To move in a quiet furtive manner; sneak: slunk away ashamed; a cat slinking through the grass toward its prey.
     to the floor for some heavy petting.

    Newsom called Reynolds an "idiot," and 49ers owners Denise and John York condemned the video. "Ostensibly os·ten·si·ble  
    adj.
    Represented or appearing as such; ostensive: His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity.
    , the video was created to raise player awareness about how to deal with the media and to demonstrate by example how poor conduct can unintentionally make news," they said in a statement. "Unfortunately, this video is an example in itself."
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    Title Annotation:SPORTS
    Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
    Article Type:Brief Article
    Geographic Code:1U9CA
    Date:Jul 5, 2005
    Words:171
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