A petition was submitted to the White House through its “We the People” channel asking that Alabama QB AJ McCarron “be deported so that Brent Musburger can steal his girlfriend.”
AJ McCarron’s girlfriend, Katherine Webb, didn’t take offense to Brent Musburger's comments during the BCS National Championship game, even though the ESPN felt compelled to issue an apology on Tuesday.
quote: “I think the media has been really unfair to him,” Webb said on Wednesday’s edition of “The Today Show,” her first public interview since her meteoric rise to fame. “I think that if he would have said some along the lines that we were hot or sexy or made any derogatory statements like that, I think that would have been a little bit different. But the fact that he said that we were beautiful and gorgeous, I don’t see why any woman wouldn’t be flattered by that.”
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ESPN felt it necessary to issue a brief statement addressing Brent Musburger’s excessively creepy horndoggery when commenting upon the attractiveness of Katherine Webb, the girlfriend of Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback AJ McCarron, during the BCS National Championship Game. Here's ESPN’s statement on the awkward event, courtesy of the reporting by Sports Business Journal Media Reporter, John Ourand, via his Twitter account...
quote: “We always try to capture interesting storylines and the relationship between an Auburn grad who is Miss Alabama and the current Alabama quarterback certainly met that test. However, we apologize that the commentary in this instance went too far and Brent understands that.”