Posted on 01/03/2011 10:09:54 AM PST by Nachum
Veteran ESPN broadcaster Ron Franklin was pulled from the air before Saturday's Fiesta Bowl after he called ESPN sideline reporter Jeannine Edwards "sweetcakes" during an off-air spat, Sports By Brooks reported Sunday.
Franklin and Edwards were scheduled to work together for Friday's Chik-fil-A Bowl and the incident occurred in a pre-game production meeting also attended by ESPN announcers Ed Cunningham and Rod Gilmore.
When the conversation turned to the subject of Gilmore's wife Marie being elected mayor of Alameda, Calif., Edwards tried to join in but was shut down by Franklin, according to the report.
“Why don’t you leave this to the boys, sweetcakes,” Franklin told her.
“Don’t call me sweetcakes, I don’t like being talked to like that,” Edwards responded.
Franklin then said, “OK then, a**hole.”
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I worked in a shop with 35 guys and I was the only female. I got called terms of endearments all day long and it didn't bother me at all, but I knew the difference between “Hi Honey” vs “Listen Honey” as most woman do.
However, I have also been called worst names than a...hole on more than one occasion, and never ran and told on them. It was always handled between us.
Of course, I was almost always the winner. I dispatched the jobs, so therefore I controlled the money they made. Picking fights with me wasn't smart business.
If you wanna talk rights, she had the right to comment and he had the right to tell her to stuff it. The issue isnt about what was said. It is about how she handled it, by running to daddy. The fact that you back someone who tells the boss instead of handling it themselves suggests that you see the world through victimhood. The fact that you fight this so much suggests that it is personal.
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Franklin and Edwards were scheduled to work together for Friday's Chik-fil-A BowlAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Thanks Nachum.
You would think smart guys could figure that out!
Guess I missed that one.
Listen “Sweetcakes,” You have your first amendment right to free speech, but you don’t have the right to make anyone listen.
The chickification of ESPN is on schedule I guess. I love women, but I don’t want them calling my sports game play by play. Having heard men call sports for 60 years or so, their voice is not agreeable to my ears, and their contribution to the whole is negligible. I just turn the sound off so the station is the loser, not me. I wish some other sports network would give us a choice to listen to sports, ESPN almost has a lock on the genre
Yeah, whatever Asshole.
Took you five weeks to get pissed? You must be blond, "Doe eyes."
Don't know how I stumbled into a post that old.
My comment was meant to point out the insult that was more provocative than "Sweetcakes".
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