Announcer thats kinda gay

Honestly, we were planning on laying off all the gay content for a bit (we can tell how riled up it gets you), but this just came in over the wire:

An announcer for ESPNU has been taken off the breeze due to a comment he made during Saturday's telecast of the Iowa-Northern Illinois football game.

Brian Kinchen, a color commentator, will not work a game this weekend, according to Josh Krulewitz, ESPN's vice-president of public relations.

Krulewitz told The Des Moines Register Monday night that the network made its decision after an internal review.

On Saturday, Kinchen was explaining to a television audience that receivers demand to make catches with their hands because they are "tender" and can "caress" the ball. He then paused and said, "that's kind of queer , but hey..."

You have, of course, seen the video. If not, watch it again: the silence at the end is eerily transfixing. Two questions: Is this worse than what Steve Lyons said about Jews and Mexicans? And is not having to broadcast a game on ESPNU really some benign of punishment?

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