A reporter for The Golf Channel made a painfully awkward blunder when she started interviewing a person at a pro-am occasion that she thought was former NFL quarterback Vince Younger.
Through the broadcast of Thursday’s BMW Charity Professional-Am in South Carolina, it was revealed that Younger was taking part. They then threw it over to Lauren Withrow, who was proven strolling alongside a person who clearly wasn’t the Texas Longhorns legend.
“Performed six seasons within the NFL, arguably the most effective NCAA quarterbacks at Texas, [and] picked up golf about 4 years in the past,” Withrow mentioned as the person grinned. “What’s the most important shift you made going from the last word staff sport to now the last word particular person sport?”
That’s when he needed to ship the dangerous information on reside TV.
“I apologize,” he mentioned. “You may have the improper individual. I’m Everette Sands over at Citadel — which I’m a soccer coach.”
Fortunately for Withrow, Sands was additionally an all-time nice school athlete. Throughout his time on the South Carolina army school The Citadel, he rushed for the second-most profession dashing yards in class historical past with 16 profession video games of no less than 100 yards. As famous in his bio on the varsity’s web site, he was by no means as soon as tackled behind the road of scrimmage on a dashing try.
As a result of he additionally performed soccer, he was in a position to
reply the query and Withrow pivoted nicely to complete the interview.
After the weird interplay, Sands received on a video name with WCIV sports activities director Scott Eisberg to clarify how he discovered himself in that unlucky place.
“A younger girl got here up and he or she mentioned, ‘Vince?’” he mentioned, “which I assumed she was introducing herself to me. [She] mentioned, ‘Can I get an interview after you tee off?’ I used to be like, ‘Positive.’ And I teed off after which she got here up and he or she began speaking about being the most effective quarterbacks within the NCAA, and enjoying for Texas, a six-year NFL profession.
“And I used to be like, ‘She thinks I’m Vince Younger.’”
Sands added he later noticed Younger and jokingly launched himself as “Vince Younger” earlier than explaining what occurred earlier within the day.
Watch above through The Golf Channel.
