Brent Musburger Retiring on 1/31

[nomoreneveragain]

I'm going to miss him creeping on hoes and gambling references

 

[Silkk]

Sucks, feels like he was pushed out the past few years

 

[El Poyo Loco]

Well I guess that's why he wasn't holding anything back














Still over his words about Smith & Carlos

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

He's only retiring because the over under on his career was 49 1/2 years, and he bet the under. He started in '68.

 

[Trip]

This seems abrupt. That sucks

 

[aceboon]

2ND DOWN & 9!

 

[I AM WARHOL]

My favorite announcer

 

[Spade]

Probably a force out.

 

[The ADD]

Yo is that Wolken tweet legit?!

 

[jwinfield]

fukk him


After Forty-four Years, It’s Time Brent Musburger Apologized to John Carlos and Tommie Smith

Amidst the angry denunciations, there was one column, published in the Chicago American newspaper, that was particularly ugly. The journalist responsible has never deigned to comment or explain, let alone apologize, for why he decided upon the words he chose. The writer became an iconic broadcaster who now sits comfortably as the elder statesman of the sports world. He appears in family friendly movies like The Waterboy and Cars 2. His name is Brent Musburger.

“One gets a little tired of having the United States run down by athletes who are enjoying themselves at the expense of their country,” he wrote. Musburger then infamously called Smith and Carlos “a pair of black-skinned stormtroopers.”

The headline is “Bizarre Protest By Smith, Carlos Tarnishes Medals.” Despite seeing what they did as “bizarre,” Musburger doesn’t once address why Smith and Carlos did what they did or quote them directly. He does however find time to mock them repeatedly. He describes Smith and Carlos as “juvenile”, “ignoble,” and—this actually is bizarre—“unimaginative.” Musburger calls Tommie Smith “the militant black.” In describing a scene of Carlos trying to defend their actions, Musburger writes, “Perhaps it’s time 20-year-old athletes quit passing themselves off as social philosophers.”

“We are talking about someone who compared us to Nazis. Think about that. Here we are standing up to apartheid and to a man in Avery Brundage who delivered the Olympics to Hitler’s Germany. And here’s Musburger calling us Nazis. That got around. It followed us. It hurt us. It hurt my wife, my kids. I’ve never been able to confront him about why he did this. Every time I’ve been at a function or an event with Brent Musburger and I walk towards him, he heads the other way.”

 

[hood b. goode]

 

[Frump]

Starting a handicapping business

The mans legend grows

 

[resurrection]

ESPN will be down to a few Coli posters doing Sportscenter and calling games here in a few years

 

[tremonthustler1]

Musberger leaving was only a matter of time. Too old to start over and at the end he was doing D-list games.


It is what it is but it's time for new blood (except Vitale)

 

[Mr. McDowell]

77 years old. Had a wonderful run. Give someone else a chance to call these big moments.