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ESPN analyst Bob Griese suspended one game for “taco remark”

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ESPN college football analyst Bob Griese has been suspended for a game for a racially insensitive comment about NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya, network officials confirmed Monday. During a broadcast of a game between Minnesota and Ohio State Saturday ESPN ran a graphic of the Top 5 drivers in NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup standings, Jim Utter writes. When announcer Chris Spielman asked, "Where’s Juan Pablo Montoya?" Griese responded, "He’s out having a taco." Griese apologized late in the broadcast and again during that night’s Florida-Mississippi game. "I don’t even know who he is," Montoya said following the next day’s race. || Michael Hiestand writes that Griese crossed a line that broadcasters can’t approach. Here.
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One Response to “ESPN analyst Bob Griese suspended one game for “taco remark””

  1. Vernon Baum Says:

    We are all too up tight about our ethnic background!

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