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<\/p>\nA former employee has sued the Rangers and MSG Sports, alleging the\u00a0organizations allowed the popular superfan \u201cDancing Larry,”\u00a0who appears on the arena jumbotron to hype up the crowd during Rangers games, to continually sexually harass the non-male members of the Rangers\u2019 audience hype team, the Blue Crew.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit, which was obtained by Newsday, was filed\u00a0in New York County Supreme Court on Monday by Miranda Tyson, who worked for the Blue Crew from 2021 to 2025. The suit said Dancing Larry, whose name is Larry Goodman, routinely subjected the non-male members of the Blue Crew to \u201ca pattern of persistent and unwelcome physical contact,”\u00a0which included \u201cfirmly touching and grabbing their heads, necks, shoulders, backs, arms, and hands.”<\/p>\n
Tyson\u00a0filed a formal written complaint about Dancing Larry to superiors in March of 2024 after three seasons of working for the Blue Crew, according to the suit. Tyson claims to have not been re-hired after the 2024-25 season and said that decision was directly related to the complaints about Goodman.<\/p>\n
An MSG Sports spokesperson, responding to a request from Newsday for comment, replied in a text message, \u201cWe don\u2019t comment on employee or legal matters.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Goodman, who\u00a0is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit,\u00a0did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit alleges the conduct by Goodman, who has been doing his segment at Rangers home games since 1996, had been ongoing for years before Tyson started working with the Blue Crew. The suit claimed Goodman’s behavior was \u201can open secret\u2019\u2019 among the Blue Crew staff.<\/p>\n
“Pretty much every member of Blue Crew who isn’t a man has this experience every time they are assigned to Larry,”\u00a0Tyson wrote in the March 2024 email reporting Goodman\u00a0to superiors. Tyson described Goodman’s conduct as \u201ca problem we all inherited.”<\/p>\n
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“Dancing Larry” entertains fans during the third period of a Rangers-Bruins game at MSG\u00a0on Nov. 25, 2023. Credit: Getty Images\/Bruce Bennett<\/p>\n
Tyson did not report Goodman’s behavior during\u00a0their first three seasons because Tyson believed it must have been reported before and didn’t want to jeopardize their employment.\u00a0But by March 2024, Tyson decided the conduct needed to be reported, even if it previously had been. Tyson said Goodman’s conduct \u201ccreated an intimidating, hostile, and offensive work environment\u2019\u2019 for themselves \u201cand other non-male Blue Crew members.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Following Tyson\u2019s initial complaint, the Garden temporarily pulled the Dancing Larry segment from its schedule of in-arena entertainment. Tyson was then told management had had a conversation with Dancing Larry and the behavior would stop. Eventually, the Dancing Larry segment returned.<\/p>\n
In February\u00a02025, the lawsuit says Dancing Larry again touched Tyson, placing his “full palm on the small of [their] back” as they exited the performance area following a Dancing Larry segment. Tyson reported the\u00a0encounter and was promised management would speak with Larry again. However, the Dancing Larry segment continued, but Tyson no longer was assigned to be part of it. Tyson did not wish to be pulled from Dancing Larry detail\u00a0and considered it “retaliation”\u00a0for reporting Goodman.<\/p>\n
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\n\tColin Stephenson covers the Rangers for Newsday. He has spent more than two decades covering the NHL and just about every sports team in the New York metropolitan area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former employee has sued the Rangers and MSG Sports, alleging the\u00a0organizations allowed the popular superfan \u201cDancing Larry,”\u00a0who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,44320],"class_list":{"0":"post-548062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-rangers","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkrangers","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-rangers","15":"tag-spadjacent"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116371218199368259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}