Alabama QB girlfriend a breakout star after title game
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's routing of Notre Dame for its second straight national championship has been overshadowed in part by a new breakout star - Katherine Webb, girlfriend of quarterback AJ McCarron and Miss Alabama USA 2012.
Webb gained tens of thousands of Twitter followers during and after Monday night's game, when ESPN cameras visited and revisited Webb in the stands and announcer Brent Musburger piled on the compliments. As of noon Tuesday, she had topped 143,000 followers, trumping McCarron's 101,000.
Before the game, Webb - who graduated with a business degree from longtime Alabama rival Auburn University in 2011, according to her pageant biography - had only a few hundred.
"Wow, I'm telling you quarterbacks: You get all the good-looking women," Musburger said as the camera focused on Webb, sitting with McCarron's mother. "What a beautiful woman. Wow!"
Some found the remarks from Musburger, 73, out of line. On Tuesday, ESPN released this statement: "We always try to capture interesting storylines and the relationship between an Auburn grad who is Miss Alabama and the current Alabama quarterback certainly met that test. However, we apologize that the commentary in this instance went too far and Brent understands that."
Arizona Cardinals defensive end Darnell Dockett also was among those who noticed Webb during the broadcast. He tweeted her his telephone number and suggested they meet after the game. He later tweeted that he meant to message her privately.
McCarron responded after the game, telling Docket on Twitter, "(hash)betterkeepdreaming like the rest of these dudes."
Webb, a 23-year-old model, told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer that she first encountered McCarron on Twitter, and they met in early December when he attended the Miss Alabama USA pageant in Montgomery. The two visited over the holidays and publicly confirmed their romance right before the New Year.
"(McCarron) has such an amazing heart. He realizes that family and friends and the people closest to you are most important," she told the paper.
Webb's pageant biography says she was born in Montgomery and grew up in Phenix City. Webb worked for Chick-fil-A as a training director in Columbus, Ga., before moving to Los Angeles to pursue modeling. She finished in the top 10 in the national pageant.
Before Monday's game, Webb tweeted a photo of herself wearing a jersey with McCarron's number, her arms wrapped around the quarterback.
Early Tuesday, Webb posted her first tweet to her new followers: "So extremely blessed... (at)10AJMcCarron. Congrats to Alabama and making history! (hash)BCSChamps."
Webb gained tens of thousands of Twitter followers during and after Monday night's game, when ESPN cameras visited and revisited Webb in the stands and announcer Brent Musburger piled on the compliments. As of noon Tuesday, she had topped 143,000 followers, trumping McCarron's 101,000.
Before the game, Webb - who graduated with a business degree from longtime Alabama rival Auburn University in 2011, according to her pageant biography - had only a few hundred.
"Wow, I'm telling you quarterbacks: You get all the good-looking women," Musburger said as the camera focused on Webb, sitting with McCarron's mother. "What a beautiful woman. Wow!"
Some found the remarks from Musburger, 73, out of line. On Tuesday, ESPN released this statement: "We always try to capture interesting storylines and the relationship between an Auburn grad who is Miss Alabama and the current Alabama quarterback certainly met that test. However, we apologize that the commentary in this instance went too far and Brent understands that."
Arizona Cardinals defensive end Darnell Dockett also was among those who noticed Webb during the broadcast. He tweeted her his telephone number and suggested they meet after the game. He later tweeted that he meant to message her privately.
McCarron responded after the game, telling Docket on Twitter, "(hash)betterkeepdreaming like the rest of these dudes."
Webb, a 23-year-old model, told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer that she first encountered McCarron on Twitter, and they met in early December when he attended the Miss Alabama USA pageant in Montgomery. The two visited over the holidays and publicly confirmed their romance right before the New Year.
"(McCarron) has such an amazing heart. He realizes that family and friends and the people closest to you are most important," she told the paper.
Webb's pageant biography says she was born in Montgomery and grew up in Phenix City. Webb worked for Chick-fil-A as a training director in Columbus, Ga., before moving to Los Angeles to pursue modeling. She finished in the top 10 in the national pageant.
Before Monday's game, Webb tweeted a photo of herself wearing a jersey with McCarron's number, her arms wrapped around the quarterback.
Early Tuesday, Webb posted her first tweet to her new followers: "So extremely blessed... (at)10AJMcCarron. Congrats to Alabama and making history! (hash)BCSChamps."
People are upset about Mussberger's comments but not about that skank Kathy Griffin talking about blowing a gay guy?
WOW!
Do want.
Dang, I should have been a quarter back.
Breakout star indeed. Looks likely to break out of that bikini top any second.
"Chick-fil-A as a training director".....Ya right
Let me get this straight: There are 143,000+ people who are interested in what she has to SAY?
 @Xebico no there are 140,000 who just want to look at her and wish they could spend the night with her, only 3000 care about what she says...
So let me get this straight. You're not allowed to call a beautiful woman beautiful anymore?
Check out the size of her..............earrings.
 @Kushfan I am!
 @Kushfan They do seem surprisingly round.
from the neck down she looks like Meg
 @Land Pirate i see what you did there... but i think she looks more like Lois...
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Those aren't real. If you can't win with what your born with, don't enter beauty contests.Â
 @peckishpete Her feet aren't real? How can you tell?
Breaking News: Katherine Webb, girlfriend of Alabama Quarterback AJ McCarron, formally filed restraining order mid game, against ESPN sports broadcaster Brent Musburger.
Looks like a lot of silicone there. Â But that's the new normal. Â Phony everything.
Thank you!!!
'Some found the remarks from Musburger, 73, out of line."
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It's their own fault. So long as they treat her like a sex object,
that's exactly how their viewers and employees will see her.
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Idiots.
Enough already.....she is pretty...but enough already.....Hey, Bama...she went to Auburn! Â You know, your rival school....so, maybe you should be shunning Mr. McCarron and not gushing over this woman...she is pretty but, not that hot. Â Thanks Mushburger....that was quite pathetic commentary on your part. Â You are really starting to lose it.
@PD1202 I quite agree. If the media hadn't made a big deal out of it, it would have been forgotten by morning. When is the news ever going to be real news? Get a clue media, nobody cares.
 @kateybarthedoor Considering the non-stop updates on the talentless Kardashians... somebody cares.
No, I think she was a breakout after this photo. It's good to be the king ;-)
She has really big round......eyes