Musburger Criticized for Remarks About Star’s Girlfriend During Title Game

New York Times ^ | January 8, 2013 | MARY PILON

[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.”

[Perdogg]

[ConservativeStatement]

She is a sports reporter.

[Perdogg]

In order to attain her you have to be an obamatron.

[MosesKnows]

“You quarterbacks get all the good-looking women.”

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.

[ConservativeStatement]

There was that Joe Namath and Farrah Fawcett ad:

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.

[Arrowhead1952]

She is getting ready to have a wardrobe malfunction.....

[sargon]

I've read Musburger's comments, but haven't heard them in recorded form. Unless his inflection is really off, I can't see what the big deal is. Musburger gushed a little. So what? A few people felt uncomfortable. Earth-shattering.

Tempest in a Teapot

[cynwoody]

I don’t know who that young woman is, but it is a shame she lost her skirt.

Nude Video of ESPN Reporter Stirs Controversy [2009]

[Bigg Red]

No, thanks, I am a woman.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

I made it a point not to ever see that video. Kathy Griffin is disgusting and representative of our cultural decline.