Sideline gig opening at ESPN?

Great timing for the mic issue to clear up - just in time for Schad to drop an s-bomb.

 

Well, you know what they say.
Shit happens.

 

Let's not be a bunch of 74-year-old virgin spinsters. Everyone watching that football game has heard "shit" before. And I imagine virtually everyone watching that football game has said "shit" before. It was an accident on live TV and not a calculated offensive thing like Janet Jackson popping a titty out during the Super Bowl.

 

sure there have been words like shit and fuck uttered on the sidelines and picked up by a mic.

But if you're a professional and you are anywhere around a live mic at NO TIME do you utter the s or f words.

 

Are networks required to apologize for language like that to avoid an FCC fine?

 

i dont know. they never wrapped that up on studio 60

(if they did, i missed it)

 

It's ESPN. It's not an over-the-air network. For the most part, the FCC is powerless.

 

If they fine ESPN for having it aired once they had better of fined Comedy Central for saying it like 400 times in one episode of South Park.
If I remember reading Wikipedia correctly, they didn't get fined at all.
No way they do shit to ESPN.

 

Based on the job Schad has done at ESPN, he'll be fine... He does a great job and this was just a very minor screw-up...

 

Mizzou (the poster who has an opinion on everyting), I disagree. Schad is trying to be an info guy but a lot of his "scoops" are basically rewrites of releases or "Joe Schad reports Ryan Mallett will start at QB for Michigan." No shit, sherlock. Ask some of his co-workers if they think he's breaking stories.

 

Schad was in the press box before the Alabama-Georgia game Saturday night, so he hadn't been fired or suspended by then ...

 

Joe isn't normally a sideline guy, but Rob Stone is away with soccer for a couple of weeks so he's been filling in. Nothing huge will or should happen to him as a result of this.

I've been surprised Joe hasn't made more impact since taking that job. For whatever reason, he's not generated the kind of scoops you'd expect with the wide range of possibilities to work with that a college football "insider" has.