Robert Griffin III as a college football analyst is...FIRED BY ESPN

[Helobious 9464]

23 minutes ago, ztejas said:

If you're white it's half a step below a hard r. 

So... it's bad. 

I’ve only ever heard it because of that “No flockin” song by Kodak. 

[Vic Mackey 47151]

10 minutes ago, Brew said:

It’s not even used in the “proper” context because he’s talking about doubters of Hurts who would most likely be white. Who knows what he was actually trying to say as his clarification also makes zero sense. I have a hard time caring, we’ll see what cancel culture has to say about it though.

Correct, the context doesn't make sense. He said it slipped. Words don't slip unless you use them often. So he for sure uses this word often enough for 'bug a boo' to slip to what he said. 

I created this thread just to laugh at RG3 that he would say this. Not saying he should be cancelled or whatever as I don;t give two shits if he is or isn't. I honestly am surprised so many haven't heard that word. Granted, it's an old school term and you don't hear people currently say it but I have always known it to be right on par with the hard N word. 

['stache 21866]

2 minutes ago, HamsterHookah said:

I'm in the camp that RGIII was a clown even before this, so I hope this sends him off.

He's terrible. I remember tuning into a game and thinking "man this guy sucks." Didn't know it was him until halftime. Trying to be some cool mix of Joe Buck and Gus Johnson but just being terrible. I don't think he gets fired for this though, cry all you want, but it's different when black people say certain things, for very legitimate historical reasons that aren't worth hashing out here.

[ztejas 43537]

I've shown two of my coworkers who are both young white guys and they both think it's pretty fucking bad. 

But, like Vic, I'm not demanding he be cancelled or anything. Mostly I think it's funny because, I mean, you can't say shit like that on live TV. 

Edited December 13, 2022 by ztejas

[Guest]

The coverup/ explanation is worse than the crime...almost.

[HamsterHookah 112]

4 minutes ago, 'stache said:

He's terrible. I remember tuning into a game and thinking "man this guy sucks." Didn't know it was him until halftime. Trying to be some cool mix of Joe Buck and Gus Johnson but just being terrible. I don't think he gets fired for this though, cry all you want, but it's different when black people say certain things, for very legitimate historical reasons that aren't worth hashing out here.

I get that and like the other posters are saying, as a white guy, I'm not calling for him to be fired or cancelled, just would appreciate it if he were because like you I think he's terrible and he should be moved on from. It's actually pretty humorous the whole situation and curious to see what else he will say in his 2nd attempt at an apology once his PR people let him know the first one is getting roasted.

[PvilleStang 2921]

44 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

i have never heard that term before.  how bad is it?

 

[TrashMaster G 17599]

36 minutes ago, bullet said:

The j word was bad before the n word was bad.

This.

It's not a bad thing that so many of you haven't heard it, but that also doesn't make it meaningless.

As has been pointed out, the word makes no sense in the context of what RGIII was saying. That leads me to believe him when he says it was not what he meant to say.

[PvilleStang 2921]

Just now, TrashMaster G said:

This.

It's not a bad thing that so many of you haven't heard it, but that also doesn't make it meaningless.

As has been pointed out, the word makes no sense in the context of what RGIII was saying. That leads me to believe him when he says it was not what he meant to say.

Horse crap. The word is in his vocabulary.  It's like trying to defend someone who drops the N bomb.  They might not meant to have said it, but it's in their vocabulary...

[Darth Tron 1123]

Totally thought I was going to hear something else when I pressed play.

[txhorns 2413]

Him not using it correctly doesn’t matter, he still said it.  

[Beau Vine 54430]

31 minutes ago, HamsterHookah said:

I'm in the camp that RGIII was a clown even before this, so I hope this sends him off.

I just wish it had been Marc Jones who said it.

[CurlyDumps 4484]

I knew exactly what was coming, and it's still laugh out loud funny.  Mostly because it's an obvious honest mistake.

[GoPokes83 2240]

I like him. He’s pretty funny and knows his stuff when it comes to football. Doubt anything comes of this because he’s black.

[Al_4_ISU 12485]

I'm kinda surprised you guys hate RGIII as a media personality.  During the ISU/Texas game he acted like he'd been a lifelong Horn just reveling in the greatness and prestige of your various traditions.  I get that what's guys doing his job do, but given the disdain between UT and BU it was jarring.

If I were a Baylor fan/alum (barf) I'd have been apoplectic.

Edited December 13, 2022 by Al_4_ISU

[Guest]

21 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

This.

It's not a bad thing that so many of you haven't heard it, but that also doesn't make it meaningless.

As has been pointed out, the word makes no sense in the context of what RGIII was saying. That leads me to believe him when he says it was not what he meant to say.

J-word= person.

Bugaboo= a problem or fiasco.

He was talking about people, not a problem.  Maybe you're right, benefit of the doubt and all.  He's more guilty of being a dumbass than anything else.

He is being paid to use the right words.

Edited December 13, 2022 by slorch

[Vic Mackey 47151]

Horse crap. The word is in his vocabulary.  It's like trying to defend someone who drops the N bomb.  They might not meant to have said it, but it's in their vocabulary...

Agreed. Yes, the context doesn't make sense. I think everyone agrees with that. But I've seen white people who make this same argument if they dropped the N word or some other slur. They said it slipped. Ok, but the fact it slipped means it's regularly used in your vocabulary. That's how your slip happens.

It's the same thing as if someone typed a slur and they claim it was auto correct or something. That night be but then that raises as to why your phone or computer did that. Means you regularly use it enough.

Either way, he used it on live tv and already made an apology and it's all over the place now.

[lilMAC25 3818]

41 minutes ago, 'stache said:

He's terrible. I remember tuning into a game and thinking "man this guy sucks." Didn't know it was him until halftime. Trying to be some cool mix of Joe Buck and Gus Johnson but just being terrible. I don't think he gets fired for this though, cry all you want, but it's different when black people say certain things, for very legitimate historical reasons that aren't worth hashing out here.

He’s egregiously bad.

 

”That was a move Worthy of praise”, in regards to an Xavier Worthy play. 
 

just awful.

[CurlyDumps 4484]

4 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I'm kinda surprised you guys hate RGIII as a media personality. 

There's a thread on this board dedicated to complimenting him as a broadcaster. 

[Not a cat 5704]

Sir, you are talking to a bugaboo!

[Guadaloopy 11013]

What a monumental brain cramp.  I highly doubt that the j-word is part of RG3's vocabulary (it's 2022), but clearly he knows the term and it is filed away somewhere in his brain.  I completely buy his "bugaboo" explanation.  It's not exactly the correct usage, but it's not the worst malapropism you'll hear on an NFL broadcast.

This will be a nothing burger.

[4th&Five 41590]

2 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

There's a thread on this board dedicated to complimenting him as a broadcaster. 

that thread is as critical as it is complimentary.

[Not a cat 5704]

I remember a game a few weeks ago they were talking about Renaldo "Skeets" Nehemia and RG3 had to make a comment about the nickname and whether it meant the same thing in the 80s as it does now.  

 

Now I'm not the most refined guy but even I know making jokes about slang terms for ejaculate on a national broadcast might not be a good idea.

 

Tldr- RG3 seems to speak before he thinks a lot of the time.

[markstanco 12612]

Woke crowd is going to demand him getting fired on this. 

[Duane Moore 5249]

48 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

I honestly am surprised so many haven't heard that word.

I am too, and find it very encouraging. 

[TrashMaster G 17599]

31 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

Horse crap. The word is in his vocabulary.  It's like trying to defend someone who drops the N bomb.  They might not meant to have said it, but it's in their vocabulary...

Please explain how the word makes any sense at all in the context of the sentence in which it was used.

[Guadaloopy 11013]

1 minute ago, markstanco said:

Woke crowd is going to demand him getting fired on this. 

[CurlyDumps 4484]

7 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

that thread is as critical as it is complimentary.

The fact that he gets that amount of praise is pretty unprecedented. This board is overflowing with cynical bleating about how every broadcaster under 80 sucks.

[Vic Mackey 47151]

1 minute ago, TrashMaster G said:

Please explain how the word makes any sense at all in the context of the sentence in which it was used.

So context is more important than the word itself? He said the word. It slipped, if that's true, he regularly uses it enough for it to slip. It's like saying the N word slipped but since the context doesn;t make any sense, it's fine.

Will anything happen to him? Doubtful. And I don't even care about that aspect. I just thought it was funny he actually used this word on live tv lol. Pretty ridiculous for various reasons. 

[bullet 1599]

1 hour ago, Blotto said:

RGIII with some throwback bigotry! Sucks for RGIII as I dont think thats what he meant to say, but if it gets him off the air, we'll call it progress and move on. He sucks. Also I guess recognizing that term is further validation I'm an old. 

I'm old and it was a bad term rarely used when I was a kid.

[Guadaloopy 11013]

1 minute ago, Vic Mackey said:

So context is more important than the word itself? He said the word. It slipped, if that's true, he regularly uses it enough for it to slip.

I do not buy this logic at all.  We are talking about two similar sounding words.  The human brain is a weird thing, even weirder when put under the pressure of talking on live TV.

[ButtFumble 5183]

1 hour ago, cactusflinthead said:

Oh yeah I have heard it. Does anyone else remember this scene?

 

that is the first shit I thought of

this is the scene when a friend of mine and I looked at each other and got up and walked out of the theater

it was "half price Thursday" at the dollar theater and we both felt we had been fucking ripped off

we made sure to choose movies more carefully after that when we were bored as shit

what a horribly shitty movie even for a spike lee "jam"

[demos 3011]

 

Damn RG3 with the throwback. Lol.

Haven’t heard that one in a long time.

[TankedBevo 2485]

Destiny's Child literally had a top 40 smash hit song called Bug-a-boo that was played relentlessly on radio and TV for years in throughout the oughts. I've always heard it in reference to anyone or anything that causes problems for other people. 

 

Buncha dorks around here. 

[TrashMaster G 17599]

4 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

So context is more important than the word itself? He said the word. It slipped, if that's true, he regularly uses it enough for it to slip. It's like saying the N word slipped but since the context doesn;t make any sense, it's fine.

Will anything happen to him? Doubtful. And I don't even care about that aspect. I just thought it was funny he actually used this word on live tv lol. Pretty ridiculous for various reasons. 

1 - I'm not arguing that he is blameless.  Nor am I arguing the opposite.  I'm just saying that I believe him that it was inadvertent because the word makes no sense in the way he used it.

2 - I don't buy your assumption that he regularly uses because it slipped.  That's not how the brain works. 

[bullet 1599]

10 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

Please explain how the word makes any sense at all in the context of the sentence in which it was used.

People sometimes use the N word when not referring to Black people.  Its a derisive slang term.

The way he used it he would not be referring to Black people, but he would be insulting them.  Its in his vocabulary as an insult.

[Vic Mackey 47151]

3 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

I do not buy this logic at all.  We are talking about two similar sounding words.  The human brain is a weird thing, even weirder when put under the pressure of talking on live TV.

Bug vs jig. I have never said jig in place of bug. If he said 'Jugaboo' then maybe. But bug and jig don't sound that much alike to have one slip for the other. This word is in his vocabulary. Bug A Boo is also a word no one uses. I don't really buy his reasoning.

But either way, he said the word on live tv. 

[Pato del Muerto 52600]

People don’t watch Police Academy any more?  I think I saw it’s on Netflix. 
 

isn’t that what he calls hooks for running over his foot in the cruiser?

Edited December 13, 2022 by Pato del Muerto

[Beau Vine 54430]

37 minutes ago, slorch said:

He is being paid to use the right words.

Lulz, wtf? No he's not!

[Ghost of Shag 2615]

Who gives a shit.

Grow some hair on your balls and get over it.

[GringoSalado 1652]

1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

Being oblivious to a racist term doesn't make any difference.

I dunno in this case, for me personally, I'm counting it as a minor benefit.

[utee94 15862]

There's no way he meant it as stated, it would make no sense at all.

I don't know anything about smash hits by Destiny's Child, but his intent doesn't seem far off the actual definition of bugaboo which means: an imaginary object of fear, or something that causes fear or distress out of proportion to its actual importance.  And that's not far off from scolding the haters and the doubters for making mountains out of molehills.

It would still be an odd way to use the term bugaboo, targeted at the people levying the criticisms rather than the criticisms themselves,  but it's not crazily outside of the realm of possibility. 

Oh and regarding the j-word itself, I was born and raised in Austin, growing up in the 70s and 80s, and occasionally heard it used as derogatory slang.  Not from immediate family or friends, so it must have been peers at school.

Anyway, I don't think it was intentional and it doesn't bother me, but I'm also a white male, and have never felt the sting of that kind of racism.  

 

 

 

 

 

[WBT 20669]

So, cornball or no?

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Lulz, wtf? No he's not!

Gimme ‘Things professional sports commentators are supposed to do’ for $100.

maybe I was giving him too much benefit of the doubt.

Edited December 13, 2022 by slorch

[Henry Hill 3156]

Is this a serious thread?

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

2 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

According to destiny's child a bug a boo is a pest, someone who won't leave you alone 

I’d define it as a glitch or a flaw. A recurring error. 

[66BUFF 2565]

Nobody seen the musical Hair?

 

[Bigbend1812 12935]

[SHOOTER12 8828]

1 hour ago, Not a cat said:

I remember a game a few weeks ago they were talking about Renaldo "Skeets" Nehemia and RG3 had to make a comment about the nickname and whether it meant the same thing in the 80s as it does now.  

 

Now I'm not the most refined guy but even I know making jokes about slang terms for ejaculate on a national broadcast might not be a good idea.

 

Tldr- RG3 seems to speak before he thinks a lot of the time.

What?? That's what it means for real?

Crap I've lived a sheltered 66 years....damn.

[CfRhTxStBobcats 602]

Well now that I think about it, I guess I should be offended. RGIII was definitely talking about me because I didn't think Hurts would be a very successful NFL qb. I figured he would hang around the NFL 5 or 6 years as a backup and make a good living for himself. Happy to see him succeed even if he was a gooner for a year. Unlike Baker Mayfield, I can root for Hurts as a former TX HS star.