OT: Brent Musburger to retire

Hooray!!

Bye Felicia. People like him who excuse domestic abuse as boys being boys need to take long walk off of a short pier. Good riddance to trash like Musberger. 

Announcer. Ever.

LOL. I confused him with Marv Albert and was wondering why nobody brought up his "scandal". My bad!

Wish you the best Brent.

Eminem is shocked. 

As we say in the Navy, Fair Winds and Following Seas, Mr. Musberger.  On the whole, I think he was a very good play by play guy who deserves some respect on his retirement.

As with many of the folks on this board, he regularly would drive me crazy.  My college roommate used to call him Brent Mushmouth.  I absolutely hated the team of Brent and Dick Vermeil.  It was only when Brent started working with Gary Danielson, that I said to myself gee Brent calls a better game than I remember; he doesn't actually suck.  What gives?  I think the issue is that Brent is an exceptionally prepared and professional play by play guy, but he has the personality of a medical examiner.  Just let him call the game and he's fine.  But, pair him with a colorless color commentator, like Dick, and he tries to fill the void.  That goes about as well as your grandfather trying to do gangsta rap.  (Actually, your grandfather would be kind of endearing.  About as well as someone else's grandfather doing gangsta rap.)  Even worse, he has a tendency to show his elation when one team makes a great play or puts the game away.  That wins him no friends at all.  The winning team's fans couldn't care less that Brent is happy for them, and the losing team's fans think he's cheerleading for the other side, and right when they are at their grumpiest.

He also had the unenviable task of following the Keith Jackson/Bob Griese team.

So, best of luck, Brent; I'm mildly surprised to say this, but I will miss you.

I'm sad to hear this. He's one of my favorites.

He was already semi-retired (Working SEC Network)

"Starts Smith in motion...He's gonna throw for it, he's gotta throw it to the endzone...LOBS IT UP...ONE ON ONE...CAUGHT... MICHIGAN...TOUCHDOWN! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!"

Memory.

Time just keeps on a-ticken'......

only when he called non michigan or Ohio state games. He came off as a Tressell/Meyer worshipper.

I was appalled that I did not see this video posted in this thread.

I'm crying too, Brent. /s

Musburger has never been one of my favorite announcers. Had a tendency to be downright annoying.

at Shady Acres retirement home!

Thank God

 

 

with me, ma. 

Signed, 

Elvis Presley

I never liked him because he always seemed to have an anti-Michigan bias when he worked UM games.

I have loathed Musburger for years.  I think the last straw was him excitedly referring to "The junkyard dogs from East Lansing" during the Demetrius Brown 7 interception game in 1987.

Enjoy your retirement Brent, just don't ever appear back on my TV thanks.

was when he was missile locked on Honey Badger Tyrann Mathieu in I think LSU v Baaaama.  Like brought up his moniker every damn play until it became stupid and then reverted to every other play.

I wish I could have reached inside my tv screen and dope-slapped him. (lol)

Starting probably with his opportunistic-sounding cheerleading for the Dark Side in the 1984 OSU game. OSU was still coasting on the media darling status earned between '52 and '68, and Musberger was all into it. I was sick of it by then. Flash forward to his 2006-era promotion (during the USC-UCLA game, which USC inconveniently lost then and there) of a re-match of UM's 47-21 bashing of ND: would be "a great game." (Part of the E-SEC-SPN narrative that an OSU-UM MNC rematch, or anything nice for UM, was impermissable.) To me, a shameless huckster and peddler of BS narratives. And always ready to stab UM in the back. Never forget.

Big fan.

"You are looking live..."

Will miss him.

While I'm certainly not a particularly large fan of Brent Musburger, I do appreciate his contributions to the sport via his craft.