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[MileHigh]

Brent Musburger "retiring." Last game on Jan. 31. No doubt a shove out the door for the Sugar Bowl debacle.

Not shockingly, moving to Las Vegas to open a start a sports handicapping business with his family.

Brent Musburger is retiring from sportscasting at age 77

 

[Chef2]

Brent Musburger "retiring." Last game on Jan. 31. No doubt a shove out the door for the Sugar Bowl debacle.

Not shockingly, moving to Las Vegas to open a start a sports handicapping business with his family.

Brent Musburger is retiring from sportscasting at age 77

"Debacle" is putting that mildly.

 

[BTExpress]

Not shockingly, moving to Las Vegas to open a start a sports handicapping business with his family.

 

[Dick Whitman]

What did he say that was so bad?

 

[LongTimeListener]

What did he say that was so bad?

Basically the same stuff about Mixon that the NFL will be stuffing down our throats in a couple years.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Basically the same stuff about Mixon that the NFL will be stuffing down our throats in a couple years.

He basically said that what Mixon did was wrong but he's pulling for him getting the most of his second chance. Was there more?

 

[TyWebb]

I'd have to go back and listen, but didn't he praise him as a "great kid" or something like that? Just enough to **** off the internet.

Regardless, Musberger's style always grated on me, so I'll be glad not to hear him calling anymore games that I want to watch.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Hasn't he been building a sports handicapping business for decades now?

 

[LongTimeListener]

He basically said that what Mixon did was wrong but he's pulling for him getting the most of his second chance. Was there more?

He did say what a quality individual Mixon was. It was a little thick. The bigger problem was he went back to it after Twitter erupted the first time. You can't respond to every grievance and grudge on social media.

Unless you're the president.

 

[TyWebb]

What he said first:

“He’s just one of the best, and let’s hope, given a second chance by Bob Stoops and Oklahoma, let’s hope this young man makes the most of his chance and goes on to have a career in the National Football League."

What he said to defend himself:

“Some people were upset when I wished this young man well at the next level. Let me make something perfectly clear: What he did with that young lady was brutal, uncalled for, he’s apologized, he was tearful. He got a second chance. He got a second chance from (Oklahoma head coach) Bob Stoops. I happen to pull for people with second chances, okay? Let me make it absolutely clear that I hope he has a wonderful career and he teaches people with that brutal, violent video, okay?”

 

[cisforkoke]

He basically said that what Mixon did was wrong but he's pulling for him getting the most of his second chance. Was there more?

He didn't really phrase the first volley well.

Then he came back for more later in the game. That second volley was the finishing touch.

 

[LongTimeListener]

All in all, though, his Katherine Webb **** fantasy was more disturbing than his Mixon comments.

 

[User 11148]

What did he say that was so bad?

There seems to be this emerging consensus that once you've done something bad, you must never be considered a good person again. Thus if, in reference to such a person, you wish that person well, you're saying that you support what that person did.

 

[LongTimeListener]

"He's just one of the best" is a bit much. Maybe Brent was referring to him as a player, but in context it sure sounded like the old GREAT KID trope. It was clunky, and then he got pretty angry defending himself.

There's a difference between accepting a second chance and celebrating the guy.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I have no clue what he said that is offensive. Oh, well.

 

[poindexter]

Dude made it to 77 and really hadn't fallen off too far. Even at the end, he still sounded pretty good. I became a fan of his later in his career. As been said a million times here, he lent a gravitas to a game that told you it was a big time event. Chris Fowler has been in the big chair for years, and hasn't come close.

He is in the picture with Joe Namath poolside as Namath gave his guarantee... Musberger is a living legend.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I have no clue what he said that is offensive. Oh, well.

I also don't think he should have been fired or forced to resign or whatever. And I'm not entirely sure he was. He's old.

 

[User 11148]

"He's just one of the best" is a bit much. Maybe Brent was referring to him as a player, but in context it sure sounded like the old GREAT KID trope. It was clunky, and then he got pretty angry defending himself.

There's a difference between accepting a second chance and celebrating the guy.

Agreed.

As a semi-related aside: When the discussion was about how to "save" minor-league football, I went back and watched some old broadcasts on the youtube. Announcers back then didn't seem to spend so much time talking about stuff other than what was in front of them. You watch these broadcasts now, and the announcers go on and on and on about the game rather than the actual ****ing game. That works for baseball, but not so much for football (especially the minor-league variety). And the more time you spend on the game you're covering, the less of a chance you're going to stumble into one of these bigger-than-the-game messes.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Dude made it to 77 and really hadn't fallen off too far. Even at the end, he still sounded pretty good. I became a fan of his later in his career. As been said a million times here, he lent a gravitas to a game that told you it was a big time event. Chris Fowler has been in the big chair for years, and hasn't come close.

He is in the picture with Joe Namath poolside as Namath gave his guarantee... Musberger is a living legend.

I remember when he was fired at CBS in 1990. It was a massive deal because it was the day between the NCAA semifinals and championship, but they put him out there the next night. He said something like "folks, I've had the best seat in the house."

It was a watershed moment in how big of a deal the broadcasters were in the entertainment package. I recall some CBS exec being quoted as saying Brent got too big, it wasn't a CBS event if he wasn't there and they would never get caught in that again. They should go read back on their history, because now you can't turn anything on without Smarm King Nantz.

 

[CD Boogie]

There seems to be this emerging consensus that once you've done something bad, you must never be considered a good person again. Thus if, in reference to such a person, you wish that person well, you're saying that you support what that person did.

I'm more of the opinion that if you cold **** a woman and break four bones in her face, you're an awful person who has no right for a second chance at a glamorous, high-paying career.