re: Holly Rowe

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Didn't she get him fired for that

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Yes. She will always be scum in my eyes. Ron was Saturday night football for many years and the best.

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Jan. 4, 2011
ESPN fired the announcer Ron Franklin on Tuesday, four days after his remarks to a sideline reporter before the broadcast of the Chick-fil-A Bowl caused him to be suspended from calling the Fiesta Bowl on radio.

“Based on what occurred last Friday, we have ended our relationship with him,” Josh Krulewitz, a spokesman for ESPN, said.

During a conversation the reporter, Jeannine Edwards, was having with another ESPN announcer at a production meeting, Franklin said, according to the Web site SportsByBrooks.com, “Listen to me, sweet baby, let me tell you something.” When she protested that his tone was condescending, Franklin reportedly used an obscenity. Franklin subsequently said he deserved to be taken off the radio broadcast.

This was not the first time Franklin had said something similar, which might be the reason ESPN dismissed him. During a Notre Dame-Purdue game in 2005, the sideline reporter Holly Rowe lauded Purdue’s defensive strategy despite Notre Dame’s big lead.

“If the coaches are giving up, what does that say to the players?” Rowe said.

Franklin said, “Holly, it’s not giving up, it’s 49-21, sweetheart.”

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