On Monday night, Peter Burns posted a “public apology” on Twitter to SEC Network college Benjamin Watson and his wife Kirsten after he made a terrible joke on Saturday that angered the former Georgia and NFL tight end.
During halftime of the Florida-Vanderbilt game, Watson joked that his wife texted him to tell him that he looked good after he was the only one who didn’t come dressed in dark colors.
Burns responded, “That’s not what she texted me,” and things went badly shortly afterward. When the show returned from break, analysts Chris Doering and Takeo Spikes were seated at the desk in their usual spots, but Burns and Watson were nowhere to be found.
Eventually, Watson joined them but the anger on his face could be seen.
“Did you have him keep your wife’s name out of his mouth?” Doering asked Watson, who replied with, “Huh?” as he sat down and slammed his phone on the desk.
“We’ll see how Peter Burns is with that smart mouth in the second half,” Doering joked.
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Burns eventually posted a photo of him and Watson on Twitter showing that things were good between the two, but Watson still stated he owed his wife an apology.
On Monday, Burns responded on Twitter to someone who commented that the situation “wasn’t that bad”, while apologizing for his joke:
“While it was a joke, the truth is that I crossed the line, you should never joke about family so that I owe a public apology to Ben & Kirsten 100%,” Burns wrote. “@BenjaminSWatson couldn’t have handled it better with his humor and class. We all good & proud to call him a friend & coworker.”
Watson then reposted Burns’ tweet, writing, “Apology accepted. We are moving on. See you Saturday man. We have some big games to discuss!”
Hopefully, they can finally put this joke behind them and move on to talking about football as co-workers.
