Lee Corso prompted head-shaking and laughter from his stunned colleagues, who were taken aback when he uttered a profanity on the air Saturday — but later apologized.
In a video likely to go viral among college football fans, the popular and colorful ESPN College Gameday host uttered the expletive in apparent frustration as he played with a prop.
With the Gameday crew working the SMU-Houston game, Corso grabbed a SMU cheerleader megaphone as his prop and was about to say something into it when he suddenly gave up and said the profanity while tossing it aside. He then donned the Houston Cougars’ mascot head, putting it over his head as he finished the rest of the skit profanity-free.
His stunned co-hosts had a mixture of laughter and horror, with Kirk Herbstreit offering a wide, stunned grin and Chris Fowler putting his head on the desk. Both playfully chastised their colleague either visually or audibly.
A voice can be heard saying, “Glad there’s a delay,” but the expletive was caught on the air.
Still on air, Fowler told Corso with a smile, “Shame on you. Wash that mouth out.”
Corso later returned to the air during ESPN’s coverage of Nebraska-Michigan and issued an apology.
“Earlier today, on College Gameday, while picking the SMU-Houston game, I got a bit excited and used an expletive that I shouldn’t have used,” a more somber Corso said, while apparently reading from some notes. “I apologize and promise it won’t happen again.”
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