Time for Brent Musburger to sign off after Joe Mixon comments
Brent Musburger once was a very good sports broadcaster. He sensed and captured the moment as well as anyone of his era. As someone who has known Musburgerfor many years through our alma mater, Northwestern, I always appreciated his contributions to the big event. If Brent was there, you wanted to be there too.
Today, sadly, Musburgerno longer is that man. On Monday night on the Sugar Bowl broadcast, he repeatedly and aggressively minimized a college football player’s brutal attack on a woman, a punch so devastating it broke four bones in her face.
Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon’s assault on Amelia Molitor in the summer of 2014 was captured on videoand has been seen hundreds of thousands of times online. One would hope that just hearing the news about this appalling act of violence would be enough to bring condemnation from a play-by-play manwhen it came time to discuss Mixon’s extracurricular activities, but Musburger had more information than that. He had the video.
Excuse me if I break out a familiar phrase:You are looking live, Brent, at one of the worst things a college football player has ever done.
And this is what you did: After calling the video “very troubling to see,” you charged right into the kind of full-throated defense of Mixon one would have expected from his attorney.
“We’ve talked to the coaches,” he said. “They all swear that the young man is doing fine. … Folks, he is just one of the best, and let’s hope, given a second chance by Bob Stoops and Oklahoma, let’s hope that this young man makes the most of his chance and goes on to have a career in the National Football League.”
There was no mention of Molitor —how she’s doing, if she’s okay, what her own career might be like. There was no tirade against the scourge of violence against women. There was no discussion of whether Mixon should even have been on the field in our post-Ray Rice world.
No, it was all football, all boys will be boys, all business as usual. The man who used to know exactly the right thing to say at the right time was embarrassingly out of his element on this one. After hours of preparation, the 77-year-old Musburger was still so unprepared that he addressed a vital 21st century issue the only way he could, with a 1950s answer.
There was only one thing to think at that moment. Brent, it’s time to go.
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Evan Howard
But then along came a second chance. The social media outrage over Musburger’s comments was so overwhelming that he came back in the third quarter to give it another try. He obviously hadn’t had time himself to see the reaction, but he was told that there was trouble.
Even then, if he truly didn't know what to do, he had the vast public-relations safety net of ESPN ready and waiting. The PR people simply could have written a sincere apology for him to read on the air. Broadcasters like Musburger read canned copy all the time to promote upcoming games and thank their advertisers. This would have been an easy fix.
But no.
Musburger came out with guns blazing.
“Apparently, some people were very upset when I wished this young man well at the next level,” he said. “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 Bob Stoops. I happen to pull for people with second chances, OK? Let me make it absolutely clear that I hope he has a wonderful career and he teaches people with that brutal, violent video. OK? Second down and 9.”
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Adam King
Musburger’s combative tone was stunning. He made it crystal clear: this was all about protecting the young man, not the young lady. Musburger had no time for you people out there who care about violence against women. Second down and 9.
There’s a pattern here that should concern ESPN far more than it apparently has so far. During the national college football championship game in January 2013, Musburger couldn’t stop himself from praising the looks of Katherine Webb, the then-girlfriend of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron. The comments were embarrassing and totally out of place, and ESPN later apologized.
Just a week later, Musburger was at it again, saying that a fellow ESPN staffer, reporter Holly Rowe, was “really smoking.”
This is a sad column for me to write. I emceed Musburger's induction into our Medill School of Journalism Hall of Achievement several years ago. I like him and care about him. I tried to reach him for this column through ESPN’s PR people, but never heard back from him.
If he can’t make this decision himself, then ESPN needs to make it for him. It’s time.
FIN
Leo Kelly
wtf I hate musburger now
Cameron Powell
>Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon’s assault on Amelia Molitor in the summer of 2014 was captured on videoand has been seen hundreds of thousands of times online.
What the fuck is with the Reddit infestation of Sup Forums? I understand Mixon was in the wrong completely, but why is what he said such a big deal so much that everyone is now a lynch mob against him?
Oliver Green
I like how there was 0 outrage when it actually happened but now people are mad 2 years later.
Ryan Hernandez
I wish I could act like a nigger.
Sebastian Scott
But didn't she punch him first?
Easton Lewis
>girly punches i hope he's alright
Jose Fisher
EQUAL RIGHTS EQUAL FIGHTS BITCHHHH keep your hands to yourself roastie
Asher Gomez
tfw you hit like a girl
Sebastian Hernandez
>What the fuck is with the Reddit infestation of Sup Forums?
OP here, and I don't post to Reddit, so I'm not sure what you're going on about?
Dylan Wood
>But didn't she punch him first?
Looks like an open-hand slap to the face, that ended up hitting him on the neck.
And while the chick started the physical altercation, you don't cold-cock a chick like that.
Matthew Garcia
Musburger is the best
/ourguy/
Michael Rodriguez
>implying Sup Forums virgins have common sense B-BUT MUH UNBEARABLE FEMINAZIS
Caleb Butler
The flip-side is, chicks should NEVER get physical with a guy unless they are in actual danger.
Even an over weight, out of shape, pack-a-day smoker like me, could absolutely wreck any woman in a physical fight every single fucking time.
Punch a guy = he gets pissed Punch a girl = she falls down crying
Jayden Sullivan
Based Brent "Bitch gb2kitchen" Musburger
Caleb Myers
talk shit get hit, you little dick white boi.
Blake Ramirez
Why not? As a feminist I believe men and women are equal.
Logan Wilson
Jr.high, please.
Even if the chick _continued_ attacking the 6'1" 225lb football running back, she wasn't going to injure him and could have easily stopped the attack (or retreated) without cold cocking the bitch with a 'round house punch.
Noah Perez
the thing is chicks are mentally and physically children. while men are men and we expect them to act as such.
Jaxson White
That ought to read; "and [he] could have easily stopped the attack".
Caleb Rodriguez
>as a feminist
you gotta leave
Leo Phillips
All she had to do was listen
Zachary Moore
talk fucking shit and get hit thats the motto. keep defending her but you are still micro dick white boi and she aint gonna fuck you
Hunter Brooks
>triggers feminists
Would you care more, less, or about the same if the player had beat the shit out of a dude and put him in the hospital?
This thread is fucktarded.
Joshua Lopez
>le projecting virgin
Cameron Brooks
Sports is the one place that doesn't fucking care Bitches can eat a dick
Brayden Cruz
>Old guy doesn't think domestic abuse is a big deal
This isn't really news. White liberals only stopped beating their wives and children in the 70s, why should we expect a guy who's pushing 80 to be up on all the new social movements.
Wyatt Richardson
I don't see anything wrong with his comments at all. He doesn't condone anything he did. Ridiculous how everyone looks to crucify others for no real reason.
Liberals and lefties seem to be the most close-minded people in the world now which was the exact opposite intent more than a decade ago. Fucking sad.
Henry Campbell
>talk fucking shit and get hit thats the motto.
That's a perfect motto, when you're in prison and bankrupt...
Brayden Murphy
>equal rights Like you or I would have been treated the same way if we had punched her. We would have been expelled
Robert Jackson
stay mad white boy that bitch got her shit knocked the fuck out. lay hands on a nigga and see what the fuck happens to your punk ass
Logan Wood
>Liberals and lefties seem to be the most close-minded people in the world now which was the exact opposite intent more than a decade ago. Fucking sad.
Indeed, their hippy parents went all the way to the Supreme Court to fight for "fuck the draft!" on a jean-jacket and now their descendants are calling for full-on CommuNazi government censorship....
Jaxon Diaz
It was always the intent. It's just people have gone from having real problems to complain about, like women being able to vote, to inventing shit to complain about. Liberalism is a means to an end.
Landon Butler
Nah, leftists have always been fighting for repression and censorship, just THEIR brand of it.
Sebastian Ward
Musberger never condoned the actions, what the fuck do you want him to do? do you want him to say "damn I really hope this nigger should hang from a fucking oak tree"? He said it was despicable and disgusting and he said he hoped he could correct his future. What FUCKING MORE DO YOU WANT?
It was two and a half years ago for Christ's fucking sake, and you still want every broadcaster to criticize him immediately once mentioning his name? Jesus Christ, fuck off Christine Brennan
Jack Peterson
Nope, I don't buy into the "don't hit women" thing. If someone hits you, regardless of who they are you sure as hell better hit them back.
Oliver Gomez
>pretending to be a negro on the internet i'll give you a (you) next time
according to rumor the black guy called her friend a faggot before she shoved him.
Adrian Ortiz
KEK
Carter Bennett
>according to rumor the black guy called her friend a faggot before she shoved him.
I had heard that earlier outside the fast food joint, the faggot had called the nigger a nigger.
Though I doubt the fag would have started the name-calling, seeing as how he's a little fag, so odds are the nigger (who is also a roided-out jock) called him a faggot first.
Isaac Moore
I have no sympathy to any woman that hangs with nigger dogshit
Gavin White
The English have a saying: Chat shit, get banged.
I think this applies here.
Liam Baker
>"talk shit, get hit" that's my motto >heh, I thought women wanted equal rights >that football player was merely defending himself from that small lady
Sebastian Baker
What is the right course of action for a man getting hit by a woman? Just wondering.
Gabriel Flores
This. Just how many rejections do you need to get to hate women enough to side with some mandingo chimp when he breaks ones face
Kayden Howard
Be an adult and not get into the altercation in the first place
I've lived 26 years on earth and have been in 0 fights. The retard chimp was starting shit and the woman has the brain of a woman
Sad
Josiah Sullivan
You avoided answering the question.
Gavin Bailey
I'm Right course of action is to push her away and leave
Gavin Nguyen
There shouldn't be a question to answer to if you're not a piece of dogshit.
Adam Ward
So it is okay for her to hit you, but not the other way around? Not judging, just asking.
Jose Wood
a man would know what to do sad
Isaac Rogers
Do you roastie post in r9k?
Aiden Wilson
>Nah, leftists have always been fighting for repression and censorship
Global Leftism was and is, but the American hippy movement in the 60s strongly supported free speech in all it's forms.
Nowadays on the other hand, Americans Leftists are absolute totalitarians and are openly demanding government censorship at all levels of society.
It's fucking insane.
Jason Robinson
No, it's not okay. Never said that. Still, when you're a big guy (for you) like Mixon is, punching a woman in the face isn't okay, either. He could have very easily walked away without making things worse, but he's a nigger so it's no surprise he just punched her.
Nathan Taylor
That's considered rape, Luigi. Not everyone can do it the Italian way.
Christopher Myers
Fair enough. My problen is that when you get hit in the face as a normie, not a gargantuan nigger, you're in a shit spot. If you don't do anything, or tell it to, say, a bouncer, you're a wuss, if you hit back, you're "violent against women".
Jacob Parker
>he has no idea what a man is sad
Joshua Cox
>drunken retards think you're a pussy >get a criminal record
What a tough decision.
Dominic Morales
she barely hit him, he broke her face in four places. he should have shoved her away from him instead. i've never been hit by a woman or man so i wouldn't know, but i certainly wouldn't have been looking to kill a girl if she slapped me.
Juan Brown
Well what do you do if you get punched in the face by a man?
Christian Russell
Looking at this video was this woman charged with a crime?
Ian Watson
Then you fight back.
Luke Baker
>guy does something awful >is given a second chance >say you hope he makes the most out of this second chance >people are offended by this
Shouldn't we all hope this? I mean, if a murderer gets outta prison, don't we all want him to make the most of this second opportunity?
Adrian Rodriguez
Have you ever been in a fight before? I'd hope not because fighting is for the lowliest sacks of dogshit.
Stop now please robot
Chase Parker
She would've been if she tried to push for a felony charge but it was a misdemeanor so according to Oklahoma law, the women is innocent in this case. The judge would've charged her with assault too if she tried anything in court.
It's incredibly biased towards men and exempts women.
Jonathan Robinson
I blast him out and then say a prayer for him when I heem him to the shadowrealm for all eternity
Lucas Anderson
>My problen is that when you get hit in the face as a normie, not a gargantuan nigger, you're in a shit spot. >If you don't do anything, or tell it to, say, a bouncer, you're a wuss, if you hit back, you're "violent against women".
Yup, and that's just the way it is for all men, including normie men.
Because even a normie guy can easily beat the shit out of any chick, so guys have a responsibility not to go over-board.
If a guy's life is in actual danger (i.e. she's got a knife or something) then knocking her the fuck out is justified but in this case, it clearly wasn't.
Dominic Flores
>Well what do you do if you get punched in the face by a man?
That's different, because men and women are different.
Had a guy pushed and slapped a guy that way, the Black guy would have been perfectly justified in responding with a punch.
Benjamin Morales
we would like him to spend a long time in prison first
Connor Bennett
This.
Kevin Perez
me two
Aiden Parker
>aggressively minimized how is that even possible
Jeremiah Reed
Was the man charged?
Samuel Bennett
Newsflash whitey mcknighty - random women will hit men, unprovoked, for a variety of reasons. Alcohol, drugs, personal trauma, mistaken identity, mental problems, their period. The reasons are endless because women, like men, aren't perfect.
So answer his question. If a woman hit you for whatever reason (despite your pleasant demeanour, soft tone and warm smile) what would you do?
>source My job is loosely linked in to police stuff, violent incidents, so I get to see firsthand what women are capable of
Eli Long
Yes, misdemeanor, only community service, no jail.
