Brent Musburger laughs about a running joke he has with Brian Kelly from the 2012 BCS National Championship Game

Brent Musburger is a legendary voice in football broadcasting, and there’s a moment in a national championship game that many college football fans remember Musburger, arguably more than details about the game.

Musburger was on “The Shamrock” podcast this week, and recalled the reference he made during the broadcast of the 2012 BCS National Championship Game when he discussed AJ McCarron’s girlfriend, Katherine Webb. Musburger joked that he still brings it up with Brian Kelly, even though he’s moved from Notre Dame to LSU.

“I still tease him that when he got blown out by Alabama, in that national championship game, I took all the heat off him because I called a beauty queen beautiful,” Musburger said. “I was the villain that night in the eyes of the media, especially the woke journalists of some of the papers around the country. I say, ‘Coach, you’d have been under the gun if it wasn’t for me.’ He laughs. He’s a good old politician, we’ll see what he does.”

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After a weekend in Vegas, @Matt_Fortuna and I talked Notre Dame past and present with the great Brent Musburger, who has a running joke with Brian Kelly from the 2012 BCS National Championship Game

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