Looking back 10 years ago when Brent Musburger met Katherine Webb – Awful Announcing

“When you’re a quarterback at Alabama — you see that lovely lady there? She does go to Auburn but she also is Miss Alabama and that’s A.J. McCarron’s girlfriend… You quarterbacks, you get all the good-looking women. What a beautiful woman. Wow!” – Brent Musburger on Katherine Webb during the 2013 BCS Championship Game The 10-year anniversary of a 42-14 blowout more lopsided than the final score suggests and Nick Saban claiming his third national championship at Alabama would be of little note outside Tuscaloosa today if not for a couple of subplots involving girlfriends. The more famous overshadowed the other, and understandably so. Nine days following Notre Dame’s face-plant in its first title-game opportunity since the 1989 Fiesta Bowl, Deadspin dropped an investigative bombshell that still reverberates a decade later. The catfishing of Fighting Irish linebacker and Heisman Trophy runner-up Manti Te’o created a media firestorm, and life-changing implications for the parties involved, as brilliantly tackled in last year’s Netflix documentary. Lennay Kekua sucked up all the oxygen in the sports-media landscape, including one of the more memorable calls in the latter days of Brent Musburger’s long broadcasting career. Note that memorable has different meanings depending on audience. Musburger
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