Apparently scumbag means condom. So, obviously Howie was calling him a Condom. As in, "Terry, you prevent people from having babies with 99.9% accuracy."

Mushnick always does shit like this. Sitting up on his high horse and judging others. It isn't right to openly root against teams that you have no vested interest in. Howie was right to call Terry a scumbag. Just like it's right to call Mushnick a scumbag as well.

I think Phil Mushnick is a complete douchebag. /Fixed

Ummm, wow. And to think that I saw this and thought absolutely nothing of it.

I agree with GMoney. While not right to openly root against a team that one has no vested interest in, Mushnick has no argument here. If "scumbag" is the absolute worst thing a kid hears in his life, then that's one kid who really needs to get out more.

I saw this article, and was racking my brain trying to figure out what the hell an "s--bag" was.

Actually Phil Mushnick is wrong. Both Howie and Terry are entitled to their own opinion, and saying scumbag because of it isn't that bad. Both actually had a vested interest in the game because Terry wanted to see history and Howie, because the Packers beat the Raiders in Super Bowl II, wanted to see Green Bay lose and make history as the only team that lost to Detroit this season.

Haha, when I read that article, I thought they had said "shitbag" and actually thought Mushnick, for once, had a point.

Now I realize it's just Mushnick doing his schtick of being that moral guy. I'm 100% positive that the NY Post has run the word scumbag in headlines and in stories without it being written "s--bag".

one of the definitions of scumbag is used condom.

that being said, i think a lot of people were rooting for the lions to go 0-16 to save them from themselves. i hated listening to the radio and hearing ex-players saying they hoped the lions won a game. look at the BIG positive that came from this: matt millen is gone.

it's one thing to go 3-13 or 5-12 year after year, but now they can look at that 0-16 on the wall and say 'jesus, what have we become?'.

it sucks they went 0-16 but if they played the browns today, they would beat them.

-dan

Well, Terry Bradshaw is a scumbag. You'd better fine me, FCC, I'm a broadcaster too! In any case, there is nothing good about FOX's pre-game show. CBS' is so much better.

look at the BIG positive that came from this: matt millen is gone.

I would agree with this statement if Millen wasn't replaced by Martin Mayhew.

I can't stand Mushnick and his moral high horse. I also dispute that he's a "fine journalist." Until right now, I had no idea that a "scumbag" could be construed as a used condom. I'll bet most people watching the FOX pregame had no idea, either. Mushnick should just up.

TB isn't a scumbag...

Now if we're talking about Michael Irvin or Marv Albert, then it fits...

If networks continue to hire commentators whose vocabulary is barely out of junior high then this is the trash they will get.

I'm shocked that NY Post is making such a big deal about this, when Fox Sports and the NY Post are in the same company whenever Fox News does something stupid they never mention but when its MSNBC.....

I guess that shows that Fox Sports does'nt associate itself with the other divisions?

Accordig to Websters' Dictionary, of which Phil Mushnick has never read in any way, shape or form, a "scumbag" is refered to as a "dirty or dispicable person."

It can alo refer to pond scum, see "St. Louis Baseball Cardinals fans on the New York Mets".

scumbag? please.

AA guy ---- are you nuts? Phil Mushnick a "fine journalist???"
Phil Mushnick is a deceitful, duplicitous, sactimonious, fraudulent....scumbag.
Wake up, brother.

Exactly how should they have apologized? "On last week's program, Howie Long referred to Terry Bradshaw using a term that now means 'despicable person,' but which originally meant a used condom. We apologize for those of you who were born prior to the Depression and who thought that Howie was calling Terry a sackful of jism. We would also like to apologize to the people who now have to explain two profanities to their children who read the newspaper and asked what 's---bag' meant. Although in our defense, 'scumbag' isn't nearly as profane as the other meaning, and it's a lot more fun for all parties involved."

Terry how does someone email you for a date?

I don't watch the game, but I watch Terry on the pre-game show...I think ur great...wish there were guys with ur sense of humor in Nebraska. Saw u on Leno resently...u made the show.
Nann