Even before revelations that the Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews was secretly videotaped naked by a stalker in a hotel room in 2008, female sportscasters have understood how frightening obsessed fans can be.
Andrea Kremer recalled being in a hotel room while she was at NFL Films in 1988 when a man called late at night as she was falling asleep.
“He started saying all these things he wanted to do to me, and it scared the living hell out of me,” Kremer, who is now with NFL Network and HBO Sports, said. “I hung up, called downstairs, and said: ‘I got a really threatening call.