Katherine Webb, girlfriend of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron, celebrates after the BCS Championship game on Monday night when the Crimson Tide beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 42-14. (Photo: Matt Cashore, USA TODAY Sports) One day after ESPN apologized for Brent Musburger "going too far" in his comments about Katherine Webb, the girlfriend of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron and former Miss Alabama said she didn't think such a gesture was necessary. The former Miss Alabama discussed her newfound fame and ESPN's mea culpa on Today with Matt Lauer. "I think the media has been really unfair to [Musburger]. I think if he had said something along the line if we were hot or sexy, I think that would be a little bit different," Webb told Matt Lauer. "The fact that he said we were beautiful and gorgeous, I don't think any woman wouldn't be flattered by that. I appreciate it, but at the same time I don't think I needed an apology." When Musburger made his comments -- "What a beautiful woman," he began -- they sounded ogling and over-effusive. But there's a fine line between praise and objectification. While Musburger was too close to that line, he didn't seem to cross it. Webb's father, Alan, agrees. "On one hand, you can look at it as being kind of like the dirty old man, but I'm used to this and I think if you really look into what that he was trying to say, he was trying to be complimentary, and I think they need to give Brent a break," he told Atlanta's Fox affiliate. Katherine said the focus should go back on the Alabama football team, the back-to-back national champions who are "the real winners." Speaking of that Alabama team: If Webb's boyfriend and the Crimson Tide hadn't been so dominant against Notre Dame and won the BCS National Championship on, say, a last-second field goal rather than clinching the victory 10 minutes into the game, would Musburger's comments still be a big deal today? Or would the focus be on football rather than some throwaway first-quarter comments about the attractive girlfriend of a quarterback? Tags
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