In ESPN's defense, Ron Franklin is obviously blind.
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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In ESPN's defense, Ron Franklin is obviously blind.
I cannot stand those sideline reporter-ettes. They add nothing to the game and blabber on and on about things that are tangential to the game. The only reason they got the job is affirmitive action. Whenever possible, I turn down the volume of the TV and listen to the game on the radio.
Don’t blame her. What a jerk.
an espn a$$hat on thin ice.. oh gees louise.
they should make them stop drinking 8 hours before they call a game.. like airline pilots..
ESPN is the channel that obamanation watches when he has to be in the white house.... behind a closed door! Wouldn’t be surprised if he set the scene for this... a distraction “off air” which could make it seem that the other “removals” such as Juan’s, were business as usual. obamanation regime/marxism is very sly in planting these to use in the future to justify their clamp down on the use of any language except this regime’s PC.
Laz would hit it.
I still have problems with the chickifying of the men’s sports world . . . pink shoes . . . pink uniforms . . . chicks reporting from the sidelines . . . that one ESPN gal who sounds like a he/she doing play-by-play (I instantly turn the station to something else or turn off the sound when he/she’s on). Can’t stand her voice. Maybe I’m just an old fogy (did I spell that right?)
I believe it is ‘Old Fogey’.
A polite term for flatulent old men :)
Edwards apparently has a history of butting in and interjecting herself into conversations. Ask Billy Gillispie, the former Kentucky basketball coach, for more information.
8 hell, it’s 12. Twelve hours bottle to throttle was the rule when I was in the USAF. Probably the same for Commercial since the Northwest Fargo incident when 3 pilots flew from Fargo, ND to Minneapolis while intoxicated.
These dizzy girls on the sidelines are the definition of quotas. They say nothing anybody cares about and it would be better if ESPN went to commercials. At least they would generate revenue.
If she cannot handle man styled verbal jousting, maybe she should be selling real estate or something less taxing. The retort this dude had for her complaint about “sweetcakes” is perfect.
I don’t think it was affirmative action. I think it was the same effect that gets a pretty chick on every newscast. If we’ve got to watch someone talk to us about stuff we already know, don’t want to hear, or are going to hear anyway ... might as well be a cute blonde with a nice rack.
SnakeDoc
Or “sweetie pie,” “muffin,” “cupcake,” “snooks.”
See, he had a lot of alternatives!
At lease he didn’t sext or email photos of his nads to her.
lease=least
If I depended on a pay check from the NFL or a network I would avoid these women like the plague.
“Gentlemen don’t say such things to ladies.”
I love these broads that want it both ways. She wants to be a sportscaster in an all male game where the language is pretty spicey but wants special treatment when it comes to her. I think the second name he called her was probably more fitting.
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