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Cincy DJ forcibly signed off the air
Posted on November 2, 2006 3:43 PM
WLW fired its long time loudmouth sports talker Andy Furman for stepping just a little too far over the line in talking about his hometown Bengals.
Definitely some good stuff here, but I'm surprised that the trash talking wide receiver Andy got in a war of words with was the unpronounceable T.J. Houshmandzadeh instead of the motor-mouthed Chad Johnson...
Furman's attack on Houshmandzadeh was the latest in Furman's controversial career, during which he had angered Reds and Bengals management and players, university coaches and presidents, and listeners.Andy wants to stay in the Cincy area, but one fan wishes he'd go someplace else, probably where the local weather forecast features sulphurous clouds, leaping flames, and a 100 percent chance of brimstone in the mornings...
On Oct. 6, Furman said on the air that Houshmandzadeh had called him a "punk-ass white boy."
Houshmandzadeh denied making the remark.
"I told him, 'Andy Furman, you can ---- yourself.' That's the bottom line. And he twisted it into all whatever he wants to," Houshmandzadeh said several days later. "What he did was wrong. ... This time he took it too far."
Furman's firing was cheered by Sheri Edmundson-Wood, 32, of Anderson Township, who called it "a very, very long time coming." She has disliked him since 1990, when Furman called her a "slut." He made the remark when Edmundson-Wood, then 16, had called to wish Furman's co-host at the time, Cris Collinsworth, a belated happy birthday.Technorati Tags: Fired, Andy Furman, Bengals