Fox Sports picked up a terrible hot mic profanity from someone in the Falcons-Buccaneers game. Photo Credit: Fox Photo Credit: Fox
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There are sometimes bad hot mic incidents in media, where someone utters a strong profanity or says something they really shouldn’t have said that ends up getting broadcast.

And then there are really, really bad hot mic moments, that come through loud and clear, and include multiple profanities at the top of the nasty word spectrum.

One of those latter moments happened Sunday in the Atlanta Falcons-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game.

Midway through the third quarter, as the Falcons lined up to run a play, NFL on Fox mics picked up this curse, which could not have come through any clearer: “F****** c***.”


It was a bad day for hot mics around the NFL — or a very good day, if you enjoy that sort of thing. In the Green Bay Packers-Jacksonville Jaguars game, a Fox Sports mic picked up a hot mic gem that led to a funny exchange between play-by-play announcer Kenny Albert and analyst Jonathan Vilma.

Hot mics happen all the time in sports, catching players, coaches and broadcasters saying what they shouldn’t. Yet you don’t often hear one come through as clearly as the Falcons-Bucs profanity.

Was it a fan? A player or coach? A production assistant? Here’s a conspiracy theory: Notice how Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins snaps the ball immediately after the profanity. Could this be an ingenious new signal from the Falcons sideline?

Whatever the case, fans were plenty amused by the incident.


[NFL on Fox]

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