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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You won't be seeing many women's faces on Current TV anymore.
>> In the eyes of some, this will be worse than when Dana Jacobson cursed Jesus.
heh...
On a lighter note, while we’re on the subject of chic... er, sorry, *ladies* and the championship game: here’s an amusing piece regarding the allegience of nuns — ALABAMA nuns, that is...
Now, celebrities and such can look and comment on women in the most knowing way because they are also young or famous. For instance Hugh Hefner at eighty some is fine with marrying a girl young enough to be his great granddaughter.
At one time it was taboo for children to be aware of the opposite sex. Now it is reversed and only certain people are allowed to notice a pretty girl otherwise everybody gets "uncomfortable".
I heard that comment in full. He may have been bit effusive, but who cares. All that time when there is no action on the field has to be filled somehow.
The game was over at half time. To keep the audience, maybe they should have continued scanning the stands for other good looking women.
Let's face it, the majority of college football fans are normal men who enjoy looking at beautiful women.
This word sounds shockingly intolerant for the champions of tolerance. This guy had the audacity to assume heterosexuality was a normal option? How dare he! If the rump-wranglers demand we view their preference as normal, why doesn't the, uh, fabulous pump, fit the other foot as well? [facepalm]
Had to look up this “big” word from the article:
“Heteronormativity is the body of lifestyle norms that hold that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (man and woman) with natural roles in life.”
Wow I guess the broadcast WAS really offensive!
(In all fairness it was a bit creepy coming from Musberger. The gal could have been his granddaughter)
Do a Google search for an image of McCarron’s mom. She’s hot; too.
Mzzz Carter just put you on double secret probation. :-)
Sure, it’s permissible, but in this particular instance, I just felt sorry for the girl. It came across as creepy to me.
I’m an avid college football fan, so I’m quite used to Musburger. I’m not sure what it was, but THIS time I was uncomfortable when Musburger spoke about the girl’s appearance. It reminded me of creepy Chris Matthews (in a weird sort of way) with his fascination for Obama.
I don’t think I’m usually offended when men notice pretty women. My husband has eyes, and I don’t mind him admiring beautiful women most of the time.
Musburger was different this time...at least it came across that way to me. Sorry if I disagree with others here. It’s not earth-shattering news. Any chance we can agree to hold different opinions on this instance?
Do you remember this from Musberger about “aging hippies”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCB0j79B7jw
>> [Musburger] reminded me of creepy Chris Matthews (in a weird sort of way) with his fascination for Obama.
Naw. You’ve GOT to be kidding me. That’s lame beyond belief.
at 73 he’s still 100% on target with that assessment
AND he’s proving motivation for millions of boys around the nation... and quite possibly setting into motion the drive needed to bring this country back from the brink
he’s a freaking hero!
;)
97% of the population is heterosexual, but acting as such is to be shunned?
-PJ
Not a peep about Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper on live TV and the faux-oral sex.
Not a peep about Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper on live TV and the faux-oral sex.
Wasn’t that woman in “The Killing Fields”?
Thank you, sir. I owe you one. ;-)
I don’t know who that young woman is, but it is a shame she lost her skirt.
Shows you how far out of whack "politically correct" has gotten.
I guess being beautiful and being singled out for it is UNACCEPTABLE to the "dim-bulbs" of America.
The best line I heard was that she was on camera longer than the Notre Dame offense.
Wonder what she said of Kathy(nasty mouth)Griffin smacking on Anderson Coopers crotch???
From her looks in the picture she probably said, “Forget Twinkletoes Anderson and come do me!
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Beards of a feather flock together?
A Beard in the hand is worth 2 in the bush?
There’s nothing more dangerous to your career in this speech-controlled society than to tell the truth.
Mary Pilon isn't so bad herself. Although, I suspect that, to attain her, it's not necessary to get the football out and throw it around the backyard with Pop
.
LOL! Funny coming from a guy:)
Actually sometimes it’s not cattiness that causes women to be critical of one another. I don’t really know what you’d call it but we do the same to ourselves when we look in the mirror.
Is this the original Boy Named Sue??
Talk about butt ugly! Excuse me while I go puke up my breakfast.
I wouldn’t assume the poster was a woman. We men have some ambiguous feeling about fake boobs ya know. We all appreciate the effort and the effect but no one, man or woman, enjoys being fooled.
As for split ends, that comes from watching 50 years of shampoo commercials.
Commies have to feign outrage over anything a White male says they consider offensive. Football is one of their hates. Why isn’t she offended by SoddomWood?
Pray for America
She is a sports reporter.
In order to attain her you have to be an obamatron.
Is the converse true? Do all the good-looking women get quarterbacks?
Perhaps a more important observation would be to question if there are enough quarterbacks for all good-looking women or are there enough good-looking women for all the quarterbacks.
My observations indicate that successful men get the good-looking women or good-looking women get the successful men.
Athletes are handsomely rewarded in terms of finances and fame and with that comes the increased attraction to and by women especially famous and/or pretty types. It isn't limited to QBs. Just a couple of many examples: Mike Modano, one of the best hockey players in recent years, was (or is) married to an actress:
And another, Mike Fisher, married Carrie Underwood.
She is getting ready to have a wardrobe malfunction.....
Tempest in a Teapot
No, thanks, I am a woman.
I made it a point not to ever see that video. Kathy Griffin is disgusting and representative of our cultural decline.
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