[John Galt2]

I enjoy college football, and watched the game last night to see a good ass whuppin. So during the game, the camera pans to the Alabama qb's girlfriend, she has a pretty and feminine 70's look, something you can still find in the deep south. The play by play announcer (Brent Musburger) tells the world how pretty she is (duh), while the camera lingers and he also teases the color analyst (Kirk Herbstreit) that "quarterbacks -- you get all the good-looking women", an obvious reference to Kirk's hot wife (Kirk was a qb at Ohio State). When I watched it, I thought it was just playful banter between the announcers...

OH NO ITS NOT!! - NOT IN FEMINIST SOCIETY!! CNN runs a story on it and cue the feminist shaming tactics - saying Musburger is "creepy" while mentioning how old (73) he is. ESPN actually released a statement saying how Musburger "went too far". Are you fucking kidding me? I mean, I dont even like Musburger, but give me a break. And we all know, given the updated VAWA legislation and calls to criminalize bad street game ("sexual harassment"), what Musburger said will soon be a crime. Refreshingly, the feminine gf said she was flattered by the compliment. Guess it pays to the the 'Bama QB.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/08/us/alabama...?hpt=hp_c3

[durangotang]

Unreal.

We are in a war boys and no feminist should be shown any mercy because we are already beyond the point of ludicrous. I am always reading crazy stories, and this one still shocks me. I can't believe ESPN would release a statement saying he went "too far." Why can't women just let men have fucking sports? I am so sick of seeing female journalists on the sidelines asking inane questions - and now an accomplished broadcaster can't call a beautiful woman (and girlfriend of the quarterback) beautiful. That's a compliment.

Just unreal.

[Timoteo]

That whole episode was all over ESPN shows today, but basically all of them were slobbering all over this chick too. And they aren't the only ones - a ton of sorry ass American males were slobbering over her too, because her twitter feed got bumped from a few hundred followers to a couple hundred thousand JUST LIKE THAT. Just from her face being shown on tv. They kept showing her on camera because the game itself was a blowout. Networks hire "sideline/courtside reporters" based primarily on looks, and any other place they can put them based on sex appeal. I don't like Musburger either (going all the way back to the column her wrote during the '68 Mexico City Olympics), but it's bullshit to throw him under the bus on this.

[kosko]

I'm sick of this Alabama bitch. This Twitter society blows up shit so quick and it lingers on way more then needed.

And ESPN? Is the most PC Feminist loving Network around. Who else puts a Female on a NBA Play-by-Play commentator team whom has zero experience playing in the NBA.

ESPN is a dish rag the only good shit on the network is Chris Berman, Tony Kornhieser, and Mike Wilbon.

[LooTa]

"Commentator in hot water for ogling player's girlfriend during broadcast"

It even made the headlines in Australia, where US college football isn't exactly big news. What a joke.

[JohnKreese]

Musberger talking about chicks 10 years ago

Interestingly, I don't remember Musberger catching shit for this, arguably "creepier" comment roughly 7 or 8 years ago. Have we gotten so much worse so quickly?

[UgSlayer]

She's a good girl in my book

Quote:

Far from being creeped out, Webb said Tuesday that she was "flattered" by the broadcaster's comments, entertainment website TMZ reported.

"I've been reading on Twitter that Musburger had backlash that he's 'creepy'," TMZ quoted Webb as saying. "If I were to see him I would say, 'I don't think you're creepy at all!' "

[scorpion]

It's now "creepy" to call the winner of a beauty pageant a beautiful woman.

Yeah, this shit isn't going to last much longer. The backlash is coming.

[Screwston]

(01-09-2013 12:55 AM)scorpion Wrote:  

Yeah, this shit isn't going to last much longer. The backlash is coming.

From who? 95% of guys out there are lame captain save a hoe's who will attack you for disagreeing with a girl or "harassing" her like Grandpa did. I like being called creepy and a pervert, it lets me know I'm still a horny dog.

[Days of Broken Arrows]

I've noticed sports writers are often the worst when it comes to that idiotic brand of ham-handed chivalry that Americans specialize in.

That's the reason this is a "story." Because the writers ran with it. They're trying to out-PC each other.

All that said, this is an example of how feminism has seeped into mainstream culture. Keep in mind these sports writers work in the same newsrooms as feminist harridans. I am personally a big supporter of gay rights, but I want to point out that it's becoming a twisted society when gay relationships are "celebrated," but a man looking at a woman is a "scandal."

[BLarsen]

So it's not cool to call the winner of a beauty pageant... beautiful??? Dafuq???

What a country...

EDIT: Just saw Scorpion said something similar above, didn't notice :-)

[bojangles]

oh god, I fear for america, fast becoming a society of bonobos

[UgSlayer]

(01-09-2013 01:32 AM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  

I've noticed sports writers are often the worst when it comes to that idiotic brand of ham-handed chivalry that Americans specialize in.

That's the reason this is a "story." Because the writers ran with it. They're trying to out-PC each other.

All that said, this is an example of how feminism has seeped into mainstream culture. Keep in mind these sports writers work in the same newsrooms as feminist harridans. I am personally a big supporter of gay rights, but I want to point out that it's becoming a twisted society when gay relationships are "celebrated," but a man looking at a woman is a "scandal."

When I see women as the leading sports analyst every time there is a woman on ESPN, sitting in the center chair at the center of a table of three, or Skip Bayless continuously losing scripted debates to women on ESPN, (his soul is now dead) feminism has ceased to seep into mainstream culture. There was a massive flood and it now covers everything. Something so essential to masculine culture has been corrupted by feminism.

These women are giving opinions on things they know little about. Do they know how to analyze a zone defense? Where the seams in the zones are? Or even what it's like to throw a tight spiral? Or how to take a big hit? Everything a woman says on ESPN has been fed to her by writers and producers.

It's like men giving advice to women on their periods.

[Therapsid]

What's funny to me is that they may complain how comments like Musburger's objectify women, but they never stop to consider -

calling him 'creepy' is nothing but an objectification of him as an older man. because he's old, his compliments are no longer desirable, they are derogatory. If he here a handsome young announcer, perhaps he would still have gotten away with it. If he was a woman of any age or a gay man, it would never have been a story at all.

[NYJ]

(01-09-2013 12:35 PM)Therapsid Wrote:  

What's funny to me is that they may complain how comments like Musburger's objectify women, but they never stop to consider -

calling him 'creepy' is nothing but an objectification of him as an older man. because he's old, his compliments are no longer desirable, they are derogatory. If he here a handsome young announcer, perhaps he would still have gotten away with it. If he was a woman of any age or a gay man, it would never have been a story at all.

Thus the reason Kirk Herbstreit isn't being called out, cause he is younger.

ESPN= Owned by Disney. Enough said. I stopped watching it regularly years ago when I saw how the content was getting more and more feminized and more and more women trying to act like an expert on sports. The two women who actually commentate on games are absolutely dreadful.

If they expect me to sit back and accept this, they're dead wrong.

[Exactaking]

Imagine if Jimmy The Greek was still around!

[Teedub]

(01-09-2013 03:00 AM)BLarsen Wrote:  

So it's not cool to call the winner of a beauty pageant... beautiful??? Dafuq???

What a country...

EDIT: Just saw Scorpion said something similar above, didn't notice :-)

This.

And:

(01-09-2013 12:35 PM)Therapsid Wrote:  

What's funny to me is that they may complain how comments like Musburger's objectify women, but they never stop to consider -

calling him 'creepy' is nothing but an objectification of him as an older man. because he's old, his compliments are no longer desirable, they are derogatory. If he here a handsome young announcer, perhaps he would still have gotten away with it. If he was a woman of any age or a gay man, it would never have been a story at all.

This. P.C Feminism is bullshit.

[MVolt]

Quote:

"I think the media has been really unfair to him (Musburger)," Webb said on NBC's morning show. "If he would have said something along the line of that we were hot or sexy or made any derogatory statements like that, I think that would have been a little bit different. The fact that he said we were beautiful and gorgeous, I don't see why any woman wouldn't be flattered by that."

ESPN apologized, saying Musburger's commentary "went too far," but Webb didn't think an apology was necessary.

"I don't think it was needed, honestly," Webb said. "Of course, I appreciate it. At the same time, I don't think I needed an apology."

"I'm flattered at all the attention, and I'm humbled, but at the same time I think we need to draw back our focus to who the real winners are (The Alabama football team)."

Video of her brief interview.