Surgery expected to sideline Flyers’ Tyson Foerster for rest of regular season<\/a><\/p>\nThe gaffe happened during the third period of the Flyers game against the Buffalo Sabres. Saunders was working Thursday night with analyst and former Flyer Todd Fedoruk.\u00a0In a statement Friday, Saunders described the incident as an “error in judgement” and promised to hold himself to a higher standard in the future.<\/p>\n
Saunders said Friday he thought he was no longer live on air.\u00a0In a record of the broadcast, he is heard acknowledging play in the game had stopped for a TV timeout and indicated the radio broadcast would be pausing for a commercial break, too.<\/p>\n
“… Seven (minutes) gone in the 3rd (period),” Saunders says. The game was broadcast locally on the 97.5 The Fanatic. “It’s 3-2 Buffalo on the Philadelphia Flyers Broadcast Network.”<\/p>\n
After about 30 seconds, Saunders starts speaking again. It’s not clear who he is speaking to, but the person is off mic.<\/p>\n
“While you’re down there, would you mind blowing me?” Saunders says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Five seconds pass and Fedoruk tells Saunders they are still on the air.<\/p>\n
“I think we’re still on the air, Tim,” Fedoruk says. Someone chuckles and then a voice is heard saying,\u00a0“No we’re not. Are we?”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Flyers first addressed the situation Friday morning and announced Saunders is suspended from the team’s next two broadcasts.<\/p>\n
“We are aware of the inappropriate comment made during last night’s radio broadcast in the TV timeout of the Flyers-Sabres game,” the statement reads. “These remarks do not reflect the standards of conduct or values we expect from anyone associated with our organization … We take this matter very seriously and sincerely apologize to our listeners, fans and those affected by these comments.”<\/p>\n
In the statement released by Saunders, he called his comment “offensive.”<\/p>\n
“… To all Flyers fans and listeners of our broadcast, I promise that I will hold myself to a higher standard moving forward to ensure our broadcast is a safe and respectful place everyone can enjoy.”<\/p>\n
The Flyers’ next two games are against the New York Rangers on Saturday and the Vancouver Canucks on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers radio announcer Tim Saunders’ explicit comment into a hot mic during Thursday night’s game has resulted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25731,2341,4843,69,4845,71,70,2597,35004],"class_list":{"0":"post-65675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-flyers","9":"tag-media","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-radio","16":"tag-suspension"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}