The Audience Was Listening

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In Monday’s BCS Championship Bowl pitting Alabama’s Crimson Tide against the fighting Irish of Notre Dame, legendary sports announcer Brent Musburger, 73, couldn’t stop ogling  the quarterback’s pageant star girlfriend. The former Miss Alabama, Katherine Webb, was viewed cheering on her new beau, AJ McCarron, who wasn’t the only one smitten by her beauty.

With his media training in the distant past, the announcer forgot that he was broad-casting, pardon the pun, to fans of both sexes.

After an earful of negative feedback on social media, ESPN tweeted an apology for the persistent commentary saying that Musburger’s commentary “went too far.”

As Presidents to Prime Ministers have proven, the audience is listening when the microphones are on.