ESPN announcer Ron Franklin has apologized* for calling sideline reporter Jeannine Edwards "sweetcakes" and then "asshole" once "sweetcakes" proved unsatisfactory. This is the second time Franklin has reportedly made a sexist remark to a colleague. The incident in question, which happened before Atlanta's Chick Fil A Bowl: ↵↵
↵↵↵Edwards tried to join the conversation.
↵When she did, Franklin said to her, "Why don't you leave this to the boys, sweetcakes."
↵Edwards responded to Franklin by saying, "don't call me sweetcakes, I don't like being talked to like that."
↵Franklin then said, "okay then, a-hole."
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Franklin was then taken off the network's Fiesta Bowl broadcast because of the incident.
↵If you're having trouble placing longtime SEC broadcaster Franklin's voice in the index of announcer voices you keep in your head, here he is having a poorly informed laugh at an apparent family member of Sean Weatherspoon, back when the Atlanta Falcons linebacker was a member of the Missouri Tigers:
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* USA Today lists the initial term as "sweet baby," not "sweetcakes." SOMEBODY GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS.
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