Like the rest of us, Jamal Spencer believed Michigan had the game in the bag. With 10 seconds left, the Wolverines needed only to punt the ball away and the Paul Bunyan trophy would return back to Ann Arbor. So Spencer, a sports reporter for WZZM 13 in Grand Rapids, took to the airwaves and pronounced Michigan as the winner as he stood outside The Big House.
Except, oops, boom goes the dynamite.
Here's the replay, ladies and gentlemen! @MSU_Football pulls off the miracle win! WATCH! http://t.co/CFIkxsoC2p
— Sean Merriman (@MerrimanTweets) October 17, 2015
Poor guy apologized on Twitter for the mishap.
Not the first time I've made a mistake in my career and it won't be the last. Gotta take the bad with the good https://t.co/N4vxwJRgyM
— Jamal Spencer (@JamalSpencerTV) October 18, 2015
As do I, but that's not the way to get clicks and page views I guess. I'm ok with that. I take responsibility https://t.co/b7bKhCxF9e
— Jamal Spencer (@JamalSpencerTV) October 18, 2015
Evening anchor Eric Lloyd also apologized saying, “We tried bringing the most up to date stats as we could, as we were going live at the exact moment everything was happening. Had two scripts written and ready to go and got bad information off my phone while on air. And then we immediately corrected it when we could. I’m sorry for getting it wrong but in the end it was corrected and it certainly won’t be a finish forgotten by any of us.”
Poor Jamal, that’s not on him. Somebody, a producer, anyone needs to get in his ear before that shot goes live. And, at the very least, he owned up to it on Twitter. Feel bad for him. Even worse, according to his bio, Spencer is a Michigan State grad.
Double ouch.
