ESPN announcer fired for comments made to Jeannine Edwards
 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/01/04/...ex.html?hpt=T2

The Neanderthals in the comments section are fine individuals. :rolleyes: I truly hope they're not procreating.

Franklin always struck me as a huge douche so I'm not surprised, although Edwards kinda seems like she'd be annoying off-camera.

FRANKLIN got fired? Good! Being feloniously stupid is a good reason for getting fired. ESPN finally got something right.

Franklin is the man, Edwards is the woman. Next time read the article instead of automatically going in feigned outrage mode, you disingenuous tool.

So Franklin called Jeannine Edwards an as.shole and got canned? What would have happened if he called Matt Millen an as.shole, aside from getting many compliments from people in Detroit?

Yeah, haha - you caught me - I made a mistake. I'll go back and change it and give you credit for calling me out on it.

Disingenuous tool? You'd need 3 promotions to be anything more than a hemorrhoid in a southern pie hole opening.

You wouldn't get the job as a piece of corn in my s.hit.

Calm down Grouchphartpants or you'll break something really important. I'm not quite sure what's exactly wrong with you, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.

My heart rate is 68 beats a minute.

Why don't you get back into life with Depends and gfy.

Not even into panty liners yet. F'ing myself has never been necessary.

Isn't it time you got off the kid stuff and got toilet trained -



I think I'll show some smarts and put you on IGNORE - it's the ultimate insult.

"You look like the last $hit I took"

His interview outside 'the funny store' with Steve Langford tops em all.

No, he called her sweetcakes/sweet baby first and when she said she didn't appreciate that, he called her an ass hole. And this isn't his first offense.

Right, I was just assuming the ass hole remark is what sealed his fate.

I just found his other "incident" on Wikipedia. I think the whole thing got blown out of proportion because someone else reported it and it leaked before ESPN could do anything. It obviously didn't make Jeannine Edwards particularly uncomfortable because she sat in the production meeting with him that began right after he called her an ass hole.

ESPN sucks


Will these two get fired? Isn't this far worse than what Franklin did?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXWi8I2KhiU

I heard about them doing that yesterday, that's f.ucking pathetic. Mangina ought to find Sphincter and sucker punch him the next time he's fishing for a scoop.

So because she didn't walk out on the job it was somehow less offensive and unprofessional? Like I said, he's used those sexist old fart names on the air before and he's a douche. I remember Fran Fraschilla used to run circles around him when they did college basketball games together.

As for Millen, people should call him an ass hole every day for the rest of his life, and then every other day after he dies.

She didn't even report the incident to an ESPN executive, a colleague did.

I have no care in the issue altogether but I see it as an overreaction and hyper-sensitivity.

Either way he is a potential liability to ESPN.