Brent Musburger
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Brent Musburger | |
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Sportscaster | |
Years active | 1968–present |
Spouse |
Arlene Clare Sander (m. 1963) |
Children | 2 |
Family | Todd Musburger (brother) |
Brent Woody Musburger (born May 26, 1939) is an American
With
Joining
Raised in Billings, Montana, he is a member of the Montana Broadcaster's Association Hall of Fame.[1]
Early life and career
Musburger was born in
Musburger's youth included some brushes with trouble: when he was 12, he and his brother stole a car belonging to their mother's cleaning lady and took it for a joy ride. His parents sent him to the
Musburger began his career as a
Did [Smith and Carlos' action] improve anything? ... Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.[4]
According to Carlos, Musburger never apologized:
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.[5]
Carlos later told Jemele Hill during a 2019 discussion that "Brent Musburger doesn't even exist in my mind. He didn't mean anything to me 51 years ago. He doesn't mean anything to me today. Because he's been proven to be wrong."[6]
In 1968, Musburger began a 22-year association with CBS, first as a sports anchor for WBBM radio and later for WBBM-TV. In the mid-1970s, Musburger moved to Los Angeles and anchored news and sports for KNXT (now KCBS-TV); there he worked alongside Connie Chung as a co-anchor on KNXT's evening newscasts from 1978 until 1980, when he joined CBS Sports full-time.
In 2020, Musburger told the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast that he has always won while betting the length of the Super Bowl national anthem by having his friends attend the rehearsal the day before the game and time it: "Some people have lip-synched it and that was an easy win because that recording is automatic."[7]
CBS Sports (1973–1990)
Beginning in late 1973, Musburger was doing play-by-play for CBS Sports. He started out doing regular season National Football League games (future The NFL Today co-host Irv Cross was also doing NFL games at that time as well). Musburger was paired with Tommy Mason or Bart Starr, who provided the color commentary. A year later, Wayne Walker would be paired with Musburger in the booth.
By
The NFL Today
But it was Musburger's association with
Musburger made headlines when he got into a fist-fight with The NFL Today's betting analyst Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder in a Manhattan bar on October 27, 1980.[9] However, the fist-fight incident was quickly regarded as water under the bridge as the two cheerfully appeared on The NFL Today the following week wearing boxing gloves on camera.[10]
CBS departure
By the late 1980s, Musburger was CBS's top sportscaster. He was the main host and play-by-play announcer for the
Early in 1990,
At the time of his firing (which he originally thought was an
ABC Sports and ESPN (1990–2017)
Following his dismissal from CBS, Musburger considered several offers, including one to return to Chicago and work at
Major League Baseball
In 1995, Musburger called Games 3-5 of the American League Division Series between the Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees alongside Jim Kaat for ABC in association with The Baseball Network. The fifth and decisive game went into the bottom of the 11th inning before Edgar Martínez won it for Seattle with a double that scored both Joey Cora and Ken Griffey Jr., sending them to the League Championship Series for the first time in their franchise's history.
No balls and a strike to Martínez. Line drive, we are tied! Griffey is coming around! In the corner is Bernie. He's going to try to score! Here's the division championship! Mariners win it! Mariners win it!
Musberger's call, dramatic as it was, incorrectly implied that Bernie Williams fielded the double in left. Bernie was playing center field at the time. Gerald Williams was in left field playing the ball and making the late throw back to the infield.
Musburger and Jim Kaat later called Games 1-2 of the 1995 American League Championship Series, while the rest of the games were called by Bob Costas and Bob Uecker on NBC.
College football
Musburger's college football duties for ESPN and ABC have included calling seven BCS National Championship games (2000, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014).
Beginning in 2006, Musburger called ABC Sports' college football
During the 2013 BCS National Championship Game between Alabama and Notre Dame, a camera turned to Katherine Webb, who was in the stands cheering for her boyfriend, Alabama quarterback, A. J. McCarron. Musburger, impressed with Webb's beauty, remarked, "I'm telling you, you quarterbacks get all the good-looking women. What a beautiful woman. Wow!" and continued commenting in a similar fashion.[19] The next day, ESPN apologized for his comments, saying they "went too far".[20] The controversy died down quickly afterwards, largely due to Webb stating that she was not bothered at all by Musburger's comments. As the Raiders' new radio broadcaster in 2018, Musburger jokingly revisited the incident with a Twitter post welcoming the now-married McCarrons to Oakland after the Raiders acquired AJ from the Buffalo Bills.[21]
Musburger's involvement with Saturday Night Football concluded when he and Jesse Palmer were named ESPN's lead game commentators for college football coverage on the SEC Network in 2014.[22] Musburger nevertheless called some games on ESPN and ABC after that time.[23][24]
VSIN, Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders (2018–present)
At the 2017 Sugar Bowl, held in early January, Musburger made controversial comments about then-University of Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon. Mixon had previously punched and broken a woman's jaw.[25][26]
Later in the same month, Musburger announced that he would retire from play-by-play broadcasting[27][28][29] and would call his final game at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky, on January 31, 2017.[30]
Musburger stated he planned to help his family get a
On July 17, 2018, it was reported that Musburger would be making his return to the broadcast booth, this time as the new
Style
Musburger has a down-to-earth manner of speaking, often addressing his viewers as "folks". In a
Musburger has a reputation for pointing out attractive women in the crowds of the games he calls; among those who later rose to fame include Susan “Busty Heart” Sykes,[40] CJ Perry,[41] Jenn Sterger,[42] and Katherine Webb McCarron.[43]
Other media
Musburger was a reporter in
Career timeline
- 1973–75: NFL on CBS play-by-play
- 1975–80; 1983–89: NBA on CBS play-by-play (lead play-by-play, 1975–80)
- 1975–89: The NFL Today studio host[48]
- 1976–89: US Open (tennis) play-by-play
- 1981–84: College Basketball on CBSstudio host
- 1983–88: The Masters studio host[49]
- 1984–89: NCAA Football on CBSplay-by-play (lead play-by-play, 1984–88)
- 1984: World Series commentator for CBS Radio Network
- 1985–90: College Basketball on CBSlead play-by-play
- 1990–96: Monday Night Football studio host[49]
- 1990–2009: College Basketball on ABCplay-by-play
- 1990–2014: College Football on ABC play-by-play[49]
- 1990–2017: College Basketball on ESPNplay-by-play
- 1991–92, 1997–98, 2000–11: Little League World Series play-by-play[50]
- 1992–96: PGA Tour on ABC host
- 1993, 1997, 2003, 2007–14, 2016: Rose Bowlplay-by-play
- 1994–95: Baseball Night in America #2 play-by-play for ABC
- 1996–2004: NBA Finals play-by-play for ESPN Radio
- 1998, 2006: World Cup studio host
- 2000, 2004, 2010–14: BCS National Championship Game play-by-play (television)
- 2002–06: NBA on ESPN and NBA on ABC play-by-play
- 2005–12: Indianapolis 500 studio host
- 2006–13: Saturday Night Football play-by-play
- 2007: NASCAR on ABC studio host[51]
- 2007–09: BCS National Championship Game play-by-play (ESPN Radio)
- 2014–17: SEC Network lead play-by-play
- 2017–present: Vegas Stats & Information Network[52]
- 2018–2021: Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders radio play-by-play
References
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- ^ "Brent Musburger Biography (1939-)". www.filmreference.com.
- ^ a b c "Not Just A Pretty Face". Sports Illustrated. Turner Sports & Entertainment Digital Network. January 16, 1984. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
- ^ Richard Sandomir, Now on Film: Raised Fists And the Yogi Love Letters, The New York Times, August 6, 1999, accessed September 10, 2012.
- ^ Dave Zirin, After Forty-four Years, It's Time Brent Musburger Apologized to John Carlos and Tommie Smith, The Nation, June 4, 2012, Accessed September 10, 2012.
- ^ Tom Schad, Olympian John Carlos on 1968 Brent Musburger criticism: He 'doesn't even exist in my mind', USA Today, May 30, 2019, Accessed June 1, 2019.
- ^ "Sports Illustrated Media Podcast". Sports Illustrated Media Podcast. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
- ^ Beall, Joel (January 25, 2017). "Remembering Brent Musburger's infamous stint with the Masters and golf coverage". Golf Digest.
- ^ "Jimmy 'The Greek' Snyder Dies Vegas Oddsmaker Became Fixture On Cbs Sports, But Was Fired In 1988 For Controversial Remarks". spokesman.com. The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
- ^ "NOT JUST A PRETTY FACE". Sports Illustrated Vault | Si.com. 2019 TI Gotham Inc., a subsidiary of Meredith Corporation. Sports Illustrated Group. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
- ^ "Brent Musburger explains history of 'March Madness' name". Sporting News. March 15, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
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- ^ Gleeson, Scott (September 3, 2018). "Brent Musburger, now Raiders play-by-play voice, welcomes AJ McCarron's 'beautiful' wife". USA Today.
- ^ "Musburger, Palmer lead SEC team". March 12, 2014.
- ^ "ESPN/ABC College Football Week 8 Slate: No. 2 Ohio State on ABC's Saturday Night Football and Two Top 25 SEC Matchups in Prime Time - ESPN MediaZone". espnmediazone.com. October 17, 2016.
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- ^ Lucia, Joe (January 25, 2017). "BRENT MUSBURGER IS RETIRING NEXT WEEK". Awful Announcing.
- ^ a b Cindy Boren, ESPN official says the network learned that Musburger was thinking of retiring 10 days, The Washington Post, January 25, 2017.
- ^ Brent Musburger to Retire From ESPN Next Week, Associated Press, January 25, 2017.
- ^ Deitsch, Richard. "Brent Musburger talks ESPN career, new Las Vegas venture". SI.com. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
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- ^ "Florida St.'s Cowgirls: Where Are They Now?". Lost Lettermen. September 11, 2013. Archived from the original on December 31, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ^ Hoppes, Lynn (November 17, 2009). "Catching up with: Jenn Sterger". ESPN.com. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
- ^ Pilon, Mary (January 8, 2013). "Musburger Criticized for Remarks About Star's Girlfriend During Title Game". The New York Times. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- ^ "Musburger animates Cars 2 - ESPN Front Row". June 24, 2011.
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- ^ Murschel, Matt (November 3, 2011). "Brent Musburger makes cameo on ABC's 'Happy Endings'". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on November 27, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2011.
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- ^ Pierce, Scott D. (January 12, 2007). "Scott D. Pierce: Move over, football, hoops: NASCAR is back on ESPN". Deseret News.
- ^ "Brent Musburger Sports Betting Articles". VSiN. February 7, 2024.
Bibliography
- Sandomir, Richard, "TV Sports: Now on Film: Raised Fists and the Yogi Love Letters", The New York Times, August 6, 1999
External links
- ESPN profile
- Brent Musburger at IMDb