Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Chris Boswell missed a potential game-winning field goal in overtime during Sundays game against the Cincinnati Bengals, and the call from CBS announcer Ian Eagle has been widely applauded. While replaying Eagle’s call, 92.3 The Fan morning host Ken Carman noticed something else.
The Ken Carman Show with Anthony Lima pointed out how prevalent the sound of the ball hitting the upright was.
“It’s like a bomb going off,” said Carman. “Listen to that doink.”
“Do we have a Richter Scale read out?”, Lima added.
“Oh, but the NFL and Fox don’t have any audio of Mason Rudolph. Ok. Alright. We have a doink off a field goal post that sounds like a nuclear bomb went off in Cincinnati, Ohio but we don’t got what Mason Rudolph said,” Carman continued. “No. We didn’t mic up the quarterback. ‘How much do you guys spend on your contracts? We spend about a billion dollars on our TV contracts. Oh, you didn’t mic him up? No, we’re trying to cut costs here’. Just checking.”
Carman was alluding to the 2019 incident between Mason Rudolph and Myles Garrett. Garrett has alleged Rudolph used a racial slur after a perceived late hit, which led the Browns defensive end to removing Rudolph’s helmet and hitting him with it during an on-field scuffle. An NFL investigation after the incident reportedly revealed no evidence of a racial slur being used, but audio from the incident has never been released. Garrett was suspended for a total of six games, the second longest suspension for an on-field action in NFL history.
