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Buzz Bissinger: 'I Shouldn't Have Used Profanity ... I Embarrassed Myself'
sports.aol.com - 5/5/2008
Buzz Bissinger: 'I Shouldn't Have Used Profanity ... I Embarrassed Myself'
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Two days after unleashing a profane tirade about blogs on Bob Costas 's HBO show, Friday Night Lights author H.G. Buzz Bissinger showed some contrition on Dan LeBatard's radio show . Bissinger (at left in the photo, with a film executive and the director of the movie Friday Night Lights ) didn't exactly embrace blogs in his radio appearance, but he did acknowledge that he took things too far ...

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Rocky Top Talk — ... (inviting Buzz to read but warning him to watch his language because "in these parts, vulgarity is no substitute for argument."). And finally, Buzz: "Embarrassed." Uh-huh. ...

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