Being a female sideline reporter just gets more fun all the time — on Friday, ESPN announcer Rod Franklin's sexist comments to reporter Jeannine Edwards got him pulled from a bowl game. And it's not his first offense.

According to Sports by Brooks, Franklin, Edwards, and fellow announcers Ed Cunningham and Rod Gilmore got into a discussion before Friday's Chick-fil-A Bowl about Gilmore's wife's election as mayor of Alameda, CA. When Edwards tried to add something, Franklin said, "Why don't you leave this to the boys, sweetcakes." She stood up for herself, replying, "don't call me sweetcakes, I don't like being talked to like that." His response: "okay then, a-hole."

RIP Ron and you were right. She was an azzhole and ugly.

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Posted by Murph4HOF

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Posted on 1/19/22 at 8:20 am to JoseyWalesTheOutlaw

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sweetcakes

I'm bringing this back in memoriam of Ron.

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Posted by OlGrandad

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Posted on 1/19/22 at 8:21 am to JoseyWalesTheOutlaw

The night the barn burned. video and article

One of my favorite announcers, may he rest in peace.

I was in the west upper deck and at first thought the east deck was on fire.

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"I'm trying to do play-by-play and I've got producers talking in my ear from Bristol," said announcer Ron Franklin, who was calling the game on ESPN. "They're getting all these phone calls because our camera angles made it look like the stadium was on fire. It made for an unusually quiet Auburn crowd for a time, I do remember that. Very, very quiet."

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