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Musburger Criticized for Remarks About Star’s Girlfriend During Title Game
New York Times ^ | January 8, 2013 | MARY PILON

Posted on 01/08/2013 7:04:40 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

On Tuesday morning, commentary on the broadcast of the Bowl Championship Series national title game between Alabama and Notre Dame included words like “creepy,” “awkward,” “uncomfortable” and “heteronormative.”

The subject was not Alabama’s 42-14 victory, but comments made during the game by the ESPN play-by-play announcer Brent Musburger regarding the girlfriend of Alabama quarterback A J McCarron. In the first quarter, ESPN showed McCarron’s girlfriend, Katherine Webb, who was sitting near his parents. Musburger called the 23-year-old Webb, a former Miss Alabama, a “lovely lady” and “beautiful,” and said to his broadcast partner, Kirk Herbstreit, a former quarterback at Ohio State, “You quarterbacks get all the good-looking women.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chat; collegefootball; espn; football; musburger; ncaa; sportschat
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In the eyes of some, this will be worse than when Dana Jacobson cursed Jesus.

And why in the intro did the narrator have to say Miami was a city where Democrats and Republicans, straight and gays, among others, relocate. What does that have to do with football?

1 posted on 01/08/2013 7:04:50 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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Am I missing something? That’s all he said? I glimpsed a headline about this on some other news source and I thought he must have said something really filthy or insulting.

What in the heck is the matter with people. This is just unbelievable.


2 posted on 01/08/2013 7:10:11 PM PST by livius
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To: ConservativeStatement

Musberger sounded ok to me. Let him have some fun.


3 posted on 01/08/2013 7:10:51 PM PST by Thebaddog (Obama won, we are so screwed.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The chattering class NUST have something to chatter (or cluck) about. Otherwise they would die.

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4 posted on 01/08/2013 7:12:40 PM PST by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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To: Thebaddog

It was uncomfortable and embarrassing to watch.


5 posted on 01/08/2013 7:12:40 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Your tattoo looks stupid.)
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To: clintonh8r

....or MUST!


6 posted on 01/08/2013 7:14:23 PM PST by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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To: ConservativeStatement
“It’s extraordinarily inappropriate to focus on an individual’s looks,” said Sue Carter, a professor of journalism at Michigan State.


7 posted on 01/08/2013 7:14:47 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Hold My Beer and Watch This!)
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MARY PILON

Why would you have a girl write a column about a football game? Why?

8 posted on 01/08/2013 7:15:02 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: livius
What did Musburger say that isn't true?

Heck it's true for QBs from high school on.

The starting QB always gets the chicks.

9 posted on 01/08/2013 7:15:35 PM PST by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: Tea Party Terrorist
I understand that sentiment. Yet why is it allowed for a woman to slap a man across the face to sell a car (Fiat) in a current TV advertisement? Imagine if an ad was produced today where a man struck a woman? It would never see the light of day, nor should it but where is the outcry?
10 posted on 01/08/2013 7:17:11 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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ucomfortable and embarrassing...That was the game.


11 posted on 01/08/2013 7:17:16 PM PST by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Katherine Webb deserved her position as Miss Alabama, and she is a lovely lady - quite beautiful although not my style. Quarterbacks do not get all the good-looking women, but this quarterback got one of them. Why the fuss over a truthful observation? Evidence:


12 posted on 01/08/2013 7:18:25 PM PST by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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And whatever happened to Sela Ward? /sarc.


13 posted on 01/08/2013 7:20:58 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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Well, the typical big media figure wouldn’t say something like this for fear his boyfriend would be hurt!

A normal guy would have to make some comment though. That’s one pretty young thing.


14 posted on 01/08/2013 7:23:13 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Beelzebubba

Its extraordinarily inappropriate except in the justice system. GUILTY!!!


15 posted on 01/08/2013 7:23:34 PM PST by dinoparty
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To: Pollster1

Thanks for posting. I’m just here for the pic. Nice.


16 posted on 01/08/2013 7:24:00 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Beelzebubba

Wonder what she said of Kathy(nasty mouth)Griffin smacking on Anderson Coopers crotch???


17 posted on 01/08/2013 7:24:20 PM PST by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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BFD. She's a hot babe and he made note of that fact.

Just consider how many times the cameras focus in on the cheerleaders during a football game. Is that so we can appreciate the wonderful uniforms they get to wear?

18 posted on 01/08/2013 7:26:16 PM PST by Robwin
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I think if anyone is criticized it should be the director who kept the camera on her for about (it seemed) 10 minutes.

What was he supposed to say? Come on, get the camera off that dumb ol girl.


19 posted on 01/08/2013 7:26:51 PM PST by DManA
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BFD. She's a hot babe and he made note of that fact.

Just consider how many times the cameras focus in on the cheerleaders during a football game. Is that so we can appreciate the wonderful uniforms they get to wear?

20 posted on 01/08/2013 7:27:15 PM PST by Robwin
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