College Gameday has become one of the most popular sports pregame shows in the world because of its party-style atmosphere, and sometimes that spills over in ways that ESPN, which strives to be a family network, isn’t quite fond of seeing.
Aside from the occasional not-so-family-friendly sign held up by the fans in the background, however, College Gameday is usually pretty tame.
But a mistake made by the analyst in his popular picks section of the broadcast has made headlines and even caused ESPN to film a segment from Corso showing him apologizing for his slip-up.
During the final segment of the program, Corso went to pick SMU over Houston in the featured game of the day. Corso held a megaphone to his mouth that had the SMU logo on it as if he was about to pick them as his winner.
But instead, Corso called an audible, playing to the crowd. He said, “Ah, (bleep) it” and then put on the Cougar head of Shasta, Houston’s plush mascot, before playing it up to the hometown crowd.
His fellow broadcasters seemed surprised by the whole thing as did the fans.
Following the incident, ESPN had Corso tape a segment in which he apologized for the error and also said it would never happen again to the camera.
In this case, it seems as though ESPN would have been better off just letting it go and issuing a press release, instead of drawing more attention to it on the college game broadcasts.
Now, more and more people have probably found the clip online and seen it, which is not what the network intended.
It is a good thing that Corso apologized, but at the same time they did themselves a disservice by drawing more attention to the slip-up. It’s not as if Corso said something malicious about someone, it was merely an expression and a mistake. Granted, there’s no place for such a word on a sports broadcast, but it’s something fans are actually used to hearing from sideline microphones as well.
It was a simple mistake and ESPN probably should have left it at that and issued their apology through the press.
Nick Meyer is a lifelong college football fan who resides in the metro Detroit area.
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