NFL Network slips with on-air profanity
Broncos coach Josh McDaniels
An occasional F-bomb or curse word will air on live sports events. That’s the nature of the beast. But for the NFL Network to air an on F-bomb on tape, shows somebody in the production truck is asleep on the job.
The NFL Network aired an F-bomb by Denver Broncos coach Josh McDaniels as he chastised his players on the sideline of their Thanksgiving night game against the New York Giants.
Coming out of a commercial break following a series of false starts near the goal line that resulted in Denver settling for a field goal, the NFL Network showed a clip of McDaniels, who yelled at his players: “All we’re trying to do is win a (expletive) game!
Fortunately, play-by-play announcer Bob Papa immediately apologized to viewers.
“We want to apologize for that audio as we went to the last break that got out over the air. We do send our sincerest apologizes for the Josh McDaniels audio that got out there,” Papa told viewers.
Eric Weinberger, executive producer of the NFL Network, apologized to viewers and to McDaniels for the “terrible mistake.”
He said no one in the production trucks heard the profanity.
“No one heard it as it was said. It would never have been aired,” Weinberger said. “It was at the end of a clip, so we missed it.
“We’re not in this business to do that,” Weinberger said. “We’re in this business to show sports and to show the most emotion that we can show. And the guy is an incredibly emotional, passionate guy.”
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