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Brent Musburger draws flag for offensive ogling

Brent Musburger became AARP-eligible nearly a quarter-century ago, but you wouldn’t have thought he was over the hill last Monday night when the 73-year-old broadcaster drifted into a creepy adolescent dalliance during his play-by-play call of the Alabama-Notre Dame BCS championship game.

Late in the first quarter, the game already a stinker with ’Bama ahead by two touchdowns, the ABC/ESPN camera framed the lovely face of Katherine Webb as she sat in the stands. Webb is the girlfriend of Crimson Tide quarterback AJ McCarron, and she is a model and beauty queen, the 2012 Miss Alabama.

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Brent's never been one of my favorites, but I give him points for longevity. He's been saying things like this forever. The girl and her father have no problem with it, and neither should you or ESPN.  Chill.

Thanks for this.  You did a nice job with the topic.  The number of people who don't understand why Musbergers' behavior was offensive and innappropriate is truely disheartening. We clearly do not live in a post-sexist society.  

Thanks for another highly politically correct column.  Good grief. What is wrong with calling a women beautiful?!? 

Peeping tomery??:?  Sleazy sexploitation??  You've got to be kidding me.

 

As healthyoutrage says, what a politically correct column!

 

Talk about over the top comments.  I'll never read another word of Du Pont's without a bit of skepticism, and may even cancel my subscription.

amazing that this writer couldn't find something more important to write about

Dupont, you are a talentless hack. It is your utterances that should be apologized for. The girl appears in beauty pageants so I think it's fair to say that she puts herself out there to be  looked at. None of musbergers commenjs came across as sexual or lewd - I thought it was complimentary.