Thom Brennaman, welcome to the unemployment line

LMAO!

 

There is no Freudian slip or ambiguity to “f*g capital of the world.” ZERO, NONE. It’s inexcusable.

I’m not taking any joy in this; only that I’m happy to see closet thoughts and hypocrisy exposed. Quit faking it.

 

Oh, if you ever do hockey, refer to the puck as an "it" or give it a nickname ... like Mike Lange ... the biscuit.

 

I believe Costas also had Tommy John pissing in Appleton during an NBC telecast.

 

Unless the town has a lot of frogs.

Or fragmentation grenades.

Or frats.

 

Yep, always assume the mic is hot.

UPDATE: 'Hot mike' soccer game comments preceded UALR athletic director's resignation - Arkansas Times

 

Similar thing with me. I had just started doing college radio and only had one lesson about the equipment. My second or third show, I’m wrapping up for the morning and playing one last song, so my replacement has time to set himself up. I play the song and don’t hear anything over the speakers.

My replacement is next to me, and he’s mouthing something. I’m like, “what?” and he mouths “turn the mic off.” As I realize this and push the button, I say “oh shit.”

My replacement thought it might have gone on the air, but I wasn’t sure. I was sure people heard the “oh”, though.

I was worried that I would get booted because my station actually had been punished by the FCC with a fine in the thousands of dollars because the previous year, someone was playing rap music with explicit lyrics and this one townie who had no life and who hated the station for whatever reason recorded it and sent a complaint to the FCC. So our board members were scared that anything that went wrong would shut us down for good.

Never did hear anything about my possible gaffe, though.

 

I think I've come to hate "what I did 'was not me'" worse than any other excuse.

 

Also, let’s look at the bright side here. At least Brennaman didn’t boast on the air about witnessing a murder and helping to bury the woman’s body in the desert.

 

You'd be amazed at how many on-air people will completely disregard that "STAND BY!" you give them in their ear when they really want to finish telling their co-anchor that anecdote about what a bitch the boss is.

 

This is pretty much what I say before any news broadcast these days.