((HT: TheYoungTurks))
Former ESPN announcer Ron Franklin has sued the network over his firing in the Jeannine Edwards incident in Atlanta during Chick-Fil-A bowl week.
The wrongful termination lawsuit filed in Texas state district court claims ESPN had no grounds for dismissing him. The suit says Franklin exchanged "contentious words" with a colleague who repeatedly interrupted a private conversation before the pair worked at the Chick-fil-A Bowl without incident.
Sideline reporter Jeannine Edwards has said Franklin called her "sweet baby" and chased that with an "Alpha-Hotel" proper noun when she reportedly didn't like the first predicate noun Franklin used. Franklin apologized, was pulled off the Fiesta Bowl and then fired.
An ESPN spokesman ((probably Josh Krulewicz)) said the network "is confident that the action we took was appropriate."
Franklin had worked for ESPN since 1987.
Here's the Young Turks discussion on the firing in the first place...
The HQ remembers that Franklin apologized to the network, but not to Edwards directly... part of the reason he got fired...
And the HQ doesn't see how this will work in Franklin's behalf...
At all...
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