I am a girl who loves sports, and talks a ton about sports, and gets irritated every time the more idiotic ESPN radio hosts (not you, Scott Van Pelt; you and I are all right) yap about women who don’t let their men watch The Big Game and/or state that their shows are for “guys who love sports and want to talk sports,” as if we are in Olden Times. So I promise you — because I know someone is going to say it — this post is NOT secretly maligning female sideline reporters. It is just maligning pants. Specifically, these pants:
I really hate these pants. The rise is unflattering, they’re at least a size too small, and they are mangling what the gene pool gave her. Please note, I am absolutely NOT saying Erin needs to wear a muumuu when she’s on the sidelines — any grown-ass people who lack the coping skills to control themselves or their mouths or their eyeballs around someone of the opposite sex who is wearing anything remotely snug therefore have problems that are above my pay grade — but seriously, these give her a full frontal wedgie. That’s not camel toe; it’s camel foot surgery. Two words: OUCH.
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Van Pelt! Yeah, I like him, too, probably because he is not very dude-bro–a charming nerd.
Agreed about this whole post, basically, the gender politics stuff, and especially Andrews’s pants, which are terrible. The Dick-Vitale-at-a-Duke-game of pants.
There was a very unflattering shot of her interviewing a coach where the camera started at shin/knee level and then moved up to shoulder level, but the angles and shadows made it look like she had a basketball in her pelvic area.
Hah yeh, I posted about this below but that made it way worse!
Very unflattering fit, and really, the whole outfit seems to be from the late 70′s/early 80′s.
Exactly my thought. I think I wore that outfit to a lunch meeting at my first job in 1982. Yesh. It’s the sidelines of a game, not an Avon company meeting. Sportswear? Hello?
That is some lovely hair, though.
I saw a shot of her on the sidelines and thought two things immediately: 1. What would the Fug girls think? 2. WHY would Erin Andrews, every teenage/college/middle-aged man’s dream wear a suit from the 70′s?! (Yes, there was a jacket the same color as the pants earlier.)
I actually think the blouse is lovely, too. Just those pants…!
wow, those are some bad pants. They just don’t fit her at all. Even the Erin-haters wouldn’t wish this on a girl.
I’m now going to date myself because it looks like an outfit I actually wore in the 1970s, so I don’t HATE the pants. I do agree we could go up a size though. But I love the blouse. Not only does it bring back memories of a white blouse I wore A LOT, I like a good bow.
It also looks like stuff I wore in the ’70′s and that’s why I DO hate it! : )
I hate the caca color and the fit, but I think the rise is fine. Surely we don’t ALL have to wear pants hanging off our hipbones? The blouse is pretty, but looks a wee bit corporate.
I personally don’t think the rise is very flattering, but the issue is more the size/fit, isn’t it? I don’t mean to sound crass but you can literally see the outline of her pelvic bone.
The rise isn’t fine if it’s giving her a megacameltoe like that.
Yeah, those pants are bad.
Great hair, cute blouse, awesome bangle that brings the blouse into the 2000s, but GIRL. Go up a size. Go up 3 sizes. YOUR PANTS WERE ORIGINALLY PLEATED WHERE IS THE PLEAT MY GOD.
I totally love the blouse (and hair and glasses), but the pants, yeeouch. Erin reminds me of Tami Taylor/Connie Briton, and y’all, that’s a good thing.
OMG Connie Britton is the most beautiful woman in the world!!
Yup, definitely though this was Tami Taylor as well.
But she’d be completely ignored by the meathead jocks and their meathead reporter pals unless some part of her body is offered for display. She’s perfect from the waist up.
I like her pants more than I like watching sports
Wow! That’s almost indecent exposure. When someone can tell that you most likely have a full Brazilian, your pants are too dang tight!
That’s what I thought!
Camel foot surgery, I’m still laughing. And Yes, I’m a man and I said OUCH!
Honey they are too damn tight, they are pants for Jiminy Cricket’s sake, not leggings!
Were they supposed to be riding pants (like she was going to hop on a horse after the game)?
Um, I hope not, because riding would be incredibly uncomfortable in pants like that, and the wide bottoms would really get in your way. Ugh, just trying to imagine it reminds me of riding bareback, which, listen, is sitting on a horse’s SPINE with no padding or nothing while it runs around.
Oh dear…. those are unfortunate……. But I agree, from the waist up she looks great!
I personally feel that the sideline reporter should be abolished….however inane the questions she is forced to ask, at least she looks good doing it! Those pants are disgusting and she should have refused to go on camera wearing them. Noone needs to see that much of her
extended wearing of those pants may result in a Monostat moment…..
i guess i’m in the minority because i love the whole thing. but i always loved that cut of pants and the whole 70s thing she’s got going on here.
Really? The cameltoe up to her pancreas doesn’t bother you? The bulging at the hips doesn’t bother you?
She’s a lovely woman, who would be even lovelier in clothes that fit her properly.
I like Erin Andrews. She does a good job and she doesn’t use that really annoying female sportscaster voice. She also handled herself well through Peephole-Gate. And we’re both UF grads, so there’s always that. However, I HATE the way she dresses. Usually she’s in leggings and a shirt, jacket or coat that stops at her waist. No matter how lovely the figure – and hers is indeed lovely – that look is just awful. For some reason, she has a hard time finding clothes that allow her to do her job without looking ridiculous. I don’t get it.
I echo your sentiments regarding her clothing choices and Go Gators! I graduated in 2003.
Class of ’92 – Go Gators!
Go Gators! 1990
I also love sports and couldn’t agree more about the whole gender bias thing on sports shows. As in, the sportscasters who talk about what movie is on Lifetime tonight for ‘the ladies’ who don’t want to watch the Big Game. UGH! But those pants have me fidgeting in pain, just looking at them.
Yup! It’s like that vile Dr. Pepper 10 commercial, which made me so mad I have actually boycotted Dr. Pepper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iuG1OpnHP8
That IS a vile commercial!
Holy crap. Well, that was a REALLY crap job on somebody’s part. Because I normally see SOOOOO many men out there interested in lower calorie/diet style drinks, this clearly speaks to their target audience. Eye roll.
I want EA to fire the person in charge of her clothes. But I think her hair person needs a raise and promotion. I love her hair. Always.
And AMEN to the Tammi Taylor/Connie Britton comparison.
Not your best Erin but better than Holly Rowe over at the Sugar Bowl. Poor Holly looked like she was all gussied up for a girls night special with half off well drinks at the Holiday Inn up by the expressway.
I like Holly Rowe, but at the risk of sounding really catty, she does not have as much to work with as Erin. As the saying goes, “To whom much is given, much is expected.”
I’m with Ellyn on this one. Flaunt that CT, baybee!
I’m with you on this H because come ON. Get a mirror or a best friend. These pants are terrible!
Too funny – Heather, on Monday we started watching the Fiesta Bowl (I think?) and the guy says, “We’re going to join Heather Cocks on the sidelines” and I’m all WHAATTT??? I was so excited thinking wow, how did Heather score the college football gig on ESPN…but it was Heather COX. Waa waaaaaa. I was all bummed. And no way would you have been wearing camel toe pants.
But Jessica, now that I know your thoughts about Van Pelt… I just really need to know your feelings towards Kirk Herbstreit. Because aside from the whole married-with-adorable-children thing, I’m pretty sure Herbie’s my dream guy.
(Erin is awesome! I think she represents us football-loving-girls extremely well. And her hair is super pretty. These pants, however, are most definitely not.)
Or, HEATHER. Sorry, the Facebook comment misled me as to which football-loving Fug girl wrote this post.
In case you still care, I LOVE Herbstreit. That Dove ad with all his kids is the cutest.
Herby is my most favorite TV crush. I happily watch GameDay religiously with my husband to oooh and ahhh at how wonderful Kirk does his job. He and his boys are the cutest things going.
Agree with this post in every way.
As a woman with a long torso and average legs camel toe is that which haunts me….. I pretty much stick to wide leg pants or skirts….. I just cant understand how anyone would willingly leave the house like that ( fabulous hair or not)
This woman is a mystery to me. She’s always wearing pants like that; she does terrible interviews; she’s always tripping over words; she doesn’t actually seem to understand that much about college football; she’s dumb as a post; and she’s not that hot. Also, she needs to stop grabbing at Andrew Luck after games for postmortems. She’s lucky an O-lineman didn’t take her ass out.
I am not ACTUALLY the hugest fan of her skills but I do at least think she cares about the work.
nice lady bits!
totally agree.
on a side note, have you ever heard this completely humiliating voicemail from scott van pelt trying to woo a girl? muy terrible. (he references bell’s palsy??)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5a4p3x091A
That pic also doesn’t do the color “justice.” It was much pinker/Pepto Bismol/Salmon-y. It was an indescribable color, but it was brighter than this pic is showing and it was that much more no-good.
And to put it in perspective, my BF pointed out this as it happened, that’s how egregious it was.
I was of the mind that pants this tight are what you were when you are young and insecure but then you grow up and wear things that look good on you.
Then hollyweird and ladies like this keep reminding me that some kinds of stupid live on forevs.
And they’re camel-colored, too!
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I wish I could unsee this… OMG!
I saw these pants too and they are awful. It also probably didn’t help that the interview I saw her do, they like zoomed in and panned right up the pants so you got to see them in all their awfulness front and center.
Those pants deserve to be maligned. Christ they are all kinds of unflattering.
Yes! I am also a woman who LOVES sports (even more so than my husband except when it comes to hockey), and those pants are awful. Erin has a habit of wearing horrible pants though. Pretty much every game day I would groan when they would do a full body shot of her. One time she was literally wearing a white leisure suit I swear. She could do sooo much better!
Getting close to camel hoof right there.
Just looking at this is making my hips hurt. I’ve put on pants that felt as though they looked like that. And promptly taken them off. Outgrowing pants sucks. You know its time to go shopping when you put on a pair of pants and they *hurt* your hip bones (not to mention crotch). And I can’t blame her too much, there’s often a split second when you think “maybe they’ll loosen up once I’ve had them on for a while.” But you don’t risk it by leaving the house like that.