ESPN Cuts Off Clemson HC's Postgame Speech, Gives Awkward Live Look-In of SportsCenter Anchors, Makes People Mad
Last night Clemson beat an overrated Notre Dame team (as if there's any other kind) in college football's game of the week. This led to excitable chatter from Clemson's excitable coach Dabo Swinney, but that was temporarily halted to give us a live look-in at Jay Harris and Kevin Connors fucking around on their tablets (or, more likely, doing last second preparations for SportsCenter). Afterward the play-by-play guy for the game, Chris Fowler, explained what happened:
Apologies for glitch during Dabo Swinney's emotional postgame interview. Wrong button hit - interrupted his answer. Live TV
— Chris Fowler (@cbfowler) October 4, 2015
He was met with skepticism from crazy people who seem to think Swinney is the first coach/player ever to invoke god after a sporting event:
@cbfowler glitch?? He mentioned God. That's way it was cut.
— Jay Hallman (@JayHallman) October 4, 2015
@cbfowler that's a lie you hit the button on purpose. If your a liberal network then make that clear to the nation.notre dame got out played
— @tigers fan (@blum_randall) October 4, 2015
@cbfowler just so happened it was as he was praising the Man Above, not buying the coincidence...
— Kyle Wooten (@kjwooten87) October 4, 2015
.@cbfowler total bs, @espn anti Christian, it's why they crucified Curt Schilling.
— Michael Highsmith (@click4mrh) October 4, 2015
@cbfowler didn't look good with the timing at all!!!!!
— rhondanruss (@rhondanruss1) October 4, 2015
@cbfowler Fowler, love you man, but America knows you can't freely thank Jesus on your network
— Haskell Shelton (@Haskdog) October 4, 2015
@cbfowler I'm not sure most of us Tiger fans believe that....but good try.
— 97 Tiger (@97tiger) October 4, 2015
@cbfowler Nothing is left to chance at Disney. #PCPolice
— Hugh Miller (@hbmiv) October 4, 2015
@cbfowler Typical PR statement, when the truth of the matter is ESPN was cutting away strictly because of the references to God.
— Brian Campbell (@CambiBambi) October 4, 2015
@cbfowler LOL. And there is the "Technical Difficulty" textbook answer. So lame. ESPN can't have The Good Lord, Jesus Christ mentioned. Sad.
— Vince Adams (@VinceAdams) October 4, 2015
@cbfowler seemed interesting it happened right as he was thanking God and his dad, hope that what you said is the truth! You are a class act
— J. Matt sanders (@co_sanman4477) October 4, 2015
@cbfowler rightttttttt. #badoptics
— Craig Lukens (@clukens1) October 4, 2015
@cbfowler I call BS, cut him off while praising God & honoring his late father, intentional, disrespectful, typical.
— crawdad64 (@crawdad64) October 4, 2015
@cbfowler I don't believe for one second it was accidental or a glitch. The war against Christianity is real!
— Jennifer White (@j_white00) October 4, 2015
Later ESPN aired the full, uninterrupted, interview. But, again, it's a postgame interview. We're not sure what you're doing today, but we know you got something better to do than watch a full postgame interview.
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