Hat tip to Jay Busbee of Yahoo! Sports for finding Jim Nantz’s pointed comments about Tiger’s swearing and club dropping at Augusta. Here’s the crux:
“If I said what he said on the air, I would be fired. I read in the USA Today and it was called “mild language.” Someone on my broadcast dismissed it as him having a camera in his face. Well, guess what? Phil Mickelson had a camera in his face all week and did you even hear him come close to approaching that? He didn’t hit every shot the way he wanted. Have you ever heard Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus use that kind of language?
Jim actually goes on to add that he gets plenty of letters asking him why he doesn’t say something about it on TV. I’d love to hear the answer, although he does say that “when the red light is on” there are things he can’t say.
I wonder if any of them come down from the Tour brass…
