Boston Celtics radio analyst Cedric Maxwell will offer an on-air apology during Wednesday night’s game for saying that a female referee should “go back to the kitchen” after he disagreed with one of her calls, a station official said.
Maxwell made his comments during the Celtics 77-72 win over the Houston Rockets on Monday night’s broadcast on WEEI-AM, which is owned by Entercom Communications.
He subsequently said “Go in there and make me some bacon and eggs, would you?” in reference to referee Violet Palmer.
“Cedric’s comments about Violet Palmer were a poor attempt at humor, and we don’t condone what he said,” Jason Wolfe, Entercom’s vice president of AM programming and operations in Boston, said in a statement. “Cedric will apologize on air during [Wednesday] night’s Celtics broadcast.”
Entercom fired former WRKO talk show host John DePetro in November after he called Green Party gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross a “fat lesbian” on the air. DePetro apologized.
Luton Town’s Mike Newell was unavailable for comment.
Funny this follows a post about Keith Hernandez.
Big deal. Who are you people, the mind police. That woman probably can’t even cook eggs w/o burning them
I felt a need to leave a comment on something that really needed no comment on but since we live in a society that has no sense of humor and douch-bags who run radio stations obviously have hard – ons for anyone who makes a joke regarding a woman I just wish Cedric would have told you to go F— yourself which is what I would have done had I been ORDERED to apoligize for a joke.