Brent Musburger is my hero.

For those of you who are not familiar with the name, Brent Musburger is a television sportscaster for the ESPN and ABC networks. He was one of the original members of “The NFL Today,” one of the legendary shows covering professional football. According to his Wikipedia page, he has covered such sports as NASCAR, the NBA, Major League Baseball and both NCAA basketball and football. He apparently knows what he’s doing, but somehow, all that didn’t keep him from landing in some hot water recently.

Recently, he was one of the guys covering the NCAA BCS championship football game that took place between the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame and the Alabama Crimson Tide. I spent a lot of my time early that night doing the prep work in trying to convince my wife that an NCAA championship football game was much more important than the season premiers of either “The Bachelor” or “The Biggest Loser.” I told her this would be a compelling battle between two collegiate dynasties with rich football histories. “We may never see a contest like this again in our lifetimes,” I believe were the words I used in an effort to gain control of the upstairs television.