The Briefing Room
General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: mystery-ak on January 08, 2013, 07:54:03 pm
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259031/Katherine-Webb-The-Miss-Alabama-girlfriend-A-J-McCarron-sent-broadcasters-drooling-game-Notre-Dame.html#ixzz2HPdBrpdL (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259031/Katherine-Webb-The-Miss-Alabama-girlfriend-A-J-McCarron-sent-broadcasters-drooling-game-Notre-Dame.html#ixzz2HPdBrpdL)
'Wow! What a beautiful woman!' Meet the Miss Alabama girlfriend of star quarterback who sent broadcasters drooling during game against Notre Dame
ESPN cameras picked up Katherine Webb in the stands on Monday night
The appearance sent her Twitter followers soaring - and Arizona Cardinals player Darnell Dockett even tweeted her his number
Webb, 23, is reigning Miss Alabama and placed in the top ten in Miss USA
Has been dating Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron, 22, for a month
By Lydia Warren
PUBLISHED: 11:09 EST, 8 January 2013 | UPDATED: 11:10 EST, 8 January 2013
Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron may have been putting on a championship-winning performance on the field, but all eyes were on the stands - and his girlfriend - on Monday night.
Katherine Webb sent broadcasters drooling and viewers tweeting their admiration after she cheered for McCarron as his team swiftly defeated Notre Dame to win the BCS National Championship.
In the first quarter of the game, the ESPN cameras panned to 23-year-old reigning Miss Alabama, who was sitting with McCarron's mother, and the sportscasters immediately perked up.
'I'm telling you, you quarterbacks, you get all the good looking women,' 73-year-old Brent Musburger gushed. 'What a beautiful woman.'
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more at link
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It's ridiculous that such a big deal is being made of Musberger's remarks.
....one thing for sure, he's got good taste.
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Well, she is a looker but they've only been together a month...it can't be all that serious yet (sitting with his mom notwithstanding).
The game was a major snore (should have been Oregon there, not Notre Dame). The announcers were doing anything they could think of to keep people watching.
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Someone on Fox this morning commented that she only came in #10 - wondered what #9 must look like ~LOL~
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(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/08/article-2259031-16CF8544000005DC-7_634x377.jpg)
She looks like a corn-fed Kate Middleton. :silly:
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Musberger sounded like a dirty old man, but he was desperate for some bright spot in the evening, considering his love affair with Notre Dame.
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Having worked many live NASCAR broadcasts (in the booth), cameramen are notorious for recording the best-looking (or alternatively the raunchiest) fans to relieve pre-race boredom I guess. Usually the director avoids airing such during dry spells (caution laps) but use specially pre-packaged tapes, especially during rain periods. IIRC, ESPN was the WORST (and still is the WORST) for producing live races. If they wanted T&A, they could have used the SI swimsuit edition as a boredom reliever. The talent I worked with over the years were professionals, and never resorted to ogling antics before, during or after broadcast.
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Agreed...never been a Mussburger fan, but he was stuck with a very boring game and needed to fill the airtime. He shouldn't have kept going on with the "Wow" schtick, but it was all harmless drivel.
Hope I learned my lesson about trying to make a point about professionalism here. Won't make the same mistake twice. Doubt if Chris Collinsworth or Al Michaels, who have called BORING games BTW, would allow themselves to lower their standards.
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Hope I learned my lesson about trying to make a point about professionalism here. Won't make the same mistake twice. Doubt if Chris Collinsworth or Al Michaels, who have called BORING games BTW, would allow themselves to lower their standards.
I'm sure we aren't incapable of appreciating professionalism "around here".
It's the double standard that pi$$es me off.
Maybe 73 years old is too old for the job?
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I'm sure we aren't incapable of appreciating professionalism "around here".
It's the double standard that pi$$es me off.
Maybe 73 years old is too old for the job?
Don't understand what double standard you are referring to. Professionalism does not have more than one standard. Let me know if you're saying that this is a personal statement regarding my views. Thanks
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Don't understand what double standard you are referring to. Professionalism does not have more than one standard. Let me know if you're saying that this is a personal statement regarding my views. Thanks
Your POV doesn't bother me in the least. You're right. What Mussburger did was unprofressional. They shoud NEVER indulge in anything other than what's going on....on the field.
The double standard is that the culture doesn't seem to mind when simulated blow-jobs are shown on CNN on New Years Eve.
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I think it only comes with being married for a long time, to be able to notice a beautiful girl without being noticed yourself, meaning no elbow slamming into your rib cage. Same goes with commenting about her. It is possible to say “Wow! that’s the most beautiful girl on the planet” without whispering a syllable.
Oh, and if Mrs. NavyCanDo is reading this, I'm not talking about me, I swear. :whistle:
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Much ado about nothing
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Katherine Webb, Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron's girlfriend, received significant attention during the BCS title game broadcast on Monday—and maybe more than was appropriate from play-by-play man Brent Musburger—prompting ESPN to apologize on Tuesday.
"Have been asked on focus on @_KatherineWebb in BCS: We always try to capture interesting storylines and the relationship between an Auburn grad who is Miss Alabama and the current Alabama quarterback certainly met that test. However, we apologize that the commentary in this instance went too far and Brent understands that," ESPN's Mike Soltys posted on Twitter. ...
Sporting News (http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2013-01-08/katherine-webb-brent-musburger-aj-mccarron-girlfriend-bcs-alabama-apology-espn?icid=maing-grid7%7Cnetscape%7Cdl6%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D254534)
Do Twitter apologies even count?
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Hope I learned my lesson about trying to make a point about professionalism here. Won't make the same mistake twice. Doubt if Chris Collinsworth or Al Michaels, who have called BORING games BTW, would allow themselves to lower their standards.
I saw Collinsworth's Olympics work. He is just plain stupid.
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Bob Costas.
This guy is just plain ignorant.
Definitely an Obama voter.