Thom Brennaman Gets Big New Gig Years After Horrible Gay Slur On Hot Mic

Thom Brennaman, whose broadcasting career cratered when he uttered a homophobic slur during a Cincinnati Reds game in 2020, has been hired as a college football announcer on The CW this fall, The Athletic reported .

“There are no words to describe how grateful I am that they’re rolling the dice,” Brennaman told The Athletic.

Brennaman starts work Aug. 31 covering a game between Oregon State and Idaho State.

While calling a Reds-Kansas City Royals game for a Cincinnati station on Aug. 19, 2020, he dubbed Kansas City “ one of the fag capitals of the world .” He thought he was off the air. He was not.

As he apologized while acknowledging “I don’t know if I’ll ever put this headset on again,” he famously switched gears to calling a home run in a now-viral video. He was replaced midgame.

“Within seven hours, I was basically fired from everything,” Brennaman, 60, said to the sports outlet.

Brennaman, whose father, Marty, was a well-known play-by-play man for the Reds, lost his Reds job and his national gig as an NFL and MLB announcer for Fox Sports.

“It became clear that he has taken full responsibility for his actions,” The CW President Dennis Miller told The Athletic.