Posted on 10/24/2020 3:26:43 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Broadcaster Joe Buck has been silent since he and his broadcast partner Troy Aikman were caught on mic during Monday Night Football appearing to slam military flyovers at sporting events. Aikman backtracked on those comments on Twitter the very next day, but Buck said nothing at all.
It turns out Buck’s silence wasn’t a sign that he was abandoning Aikman, but rather an effort to try and make the whole thing go away. On “Daddy Issues,” his podcast with actor Oliver Hudson, Buck finally commented on the whole kerfuffle and explained exactly what happened. Buck and Aikman laughing at military flyovers, plus Aikman saying they would no longer happen on a “Kamala-Biden ticket,” appeared to be a hot mic situation, with neither knowing they were actually being recorded while they were talking.
On the podcast, Buck said that it definitely wasn’t a case of them blabbing into a hot mic. “Here’s what people don’t get. They say that this was an open mic or a hot mic. It wasn’t. This was before our rehearsal. So this wasn’t like ‘Oops, we’re on, I can’t believe I just said that, oh my God we’re on.’ That’s not what happened.” So what actually did happen? Aikman wasn’t caught in a moment of scalding honesty, he was actually being sarcastic and imitating a close friend from their FOX NFL crew while he and Buck were joking around before the broadcast.
“This is going on before the anthem. We’re rehearsing and joking around, which I’ve done and every broadcaster does, I’ve done it for 30 years. ... Troy, in the microphone, is repeating something that he heard the night before from ... an unnamed person on our crew, saying — this person happens to be very far-left
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Don’t watch the NFL anymore and avoid Yahoo Sports altogether.
They're scared about being cancelled because they dissed conservatives. That's a huge shift.
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