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ESPN gets fooled by Westbrook impersonator

Tony Kornheiser isn’t the only guy who is going to be suspended by ESPN this week.

Someone who guards the on-air gate allowed a person pretending to be soon-to-be-former Eagles running back Brian Westbrook to talk live via phone with Scott Van Pelt on last night’s SportsCenter.

Here’s the audio/video.

As if the prank wasn’t obvious the minute the person started talking, it became even more clear when the caller mentioned “worshiping the prostate of Howard Stern.”

Maybe the caller was Tony Kornheiser.

UPDATE:  The prankster, who goes by the name of “Captain Janks,” has explained how he pulled off the stunt, per The Big Lead. 

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38 Responses to “ESPN gets fooled by Westbrook impersonator”
  1. Mean Leroy Brown says: Feb 24, 2010 8:07 AM

    BABABOOEY!

  2. taudaddy79 says: Feb 24, 2010 8:09 AM

    ESPN 0 – Howard Stern’s Prostate 1

  3. BleedGreen says: Feb 24, 2010 8:14 AM

    Ahh Captain Janks.

  4. Jpgedds says: Feb 24, 2010 8:15 AM

    bah bah boey!

  5. ttcheech420 says: Feb 24, 2010 8:16 AM

    This prank was done by the greatest prank caller ever, captian janks haahahaha

  6. SUNDAY says: Feb 24, 2010 8:18 AM

    BaBa Booey… BaBa Booey…

  7. Bronkko says: Feb 24, 2010 8:25 AM

    bababooey

  8. tfm_drummer says: Feb 24, 2010 8:25 AM

    Scott Van Pelt looks so stupid when he realises. douche.

  9. RavensTuck says: Feb 24, 2010 8:26 AM

    Gratz on the get Captain Janks!!!!!

  10. Rodzilla says: Feb 24, 2010 8:27 AM

    Captain Janks strikes again!!! BABA BOOEY 4EVER!!

  11. mnmaverick says: Feb 24, 2010 8:31 AM

    ROFLMAO
    Too Funny! = )

  12. SeeRayRun says: Feb 24, 2010 8:38 AM

    Captain Janks strikes again! BaBaBooey! BaBaBooey!!

  13. Ralph Gre Nader says: Feb 24, 2010 8:43 AM

    That is just some good clean family fun right there.

  14. Big Stretch says: Feb 24, 2010 8:43 AM

    BABA BOOEY BABA BOOEY
    HOWARD STERN’S BALLS

  15. kpc21 says: Feb 24, 2010 8:45 AM

    baba boeey!!! howard sterns penis!!!

  16. Opie says: Feb 24, 2010 8:48 AM

    So, your job is interviewing athletes and from the “go” you can’t figure out it isn’t Westy?!?
    More folks should prank these media types, can you imagine the panties that would be in wads!
    At the end there, I hope it was dude’s ear piece that fell out of his ear and not a wax-sammich..

  17. Old Manny of the Mountains says: Feb 24, 2010 8:57 AM

    thats hilarious! I didn’t get to watch it live, but it looks like the whole segment was falling apart. At the end, the other dudes earpiece falls out when he started talking.. lol..
    Remember when ESPN was THE BOMB? Well, the bomb has jumped the shark.

  18. Burritto says: Feb 24, 2010 9:05 AM

    I am Doctor Remulak.
    Bababooey!!

  19. heywood jablowme says: Feb 24, 2010 9:05 AM

    FA FA Flohi

  20. Iron Wolf says: Feb 24, 2010 9:05 AM

    Anything that makes ESPN look stupid works for me.

  21. snccoach says: Feb 24, 2010 9:14 AM

    That…..was….AWESOME!

  22. Chapnasty2 says: Feb 24, 2010 9:27 AM

    Olbermann and Eisen are laughing their a$$e$ off

  23. RumorMongering says: Feb 24, 2010 9:45 AM

    He almost got the Langford out! Steve would have really had it out for him then! Great job Janks!

  24. Asswipe Johnson (Pronounced Az-Wee-Pay) says: Feb 24, 2010 9:55 AM

    This is not Ricardo Montalban…
    Bababooey!

  25. Gooney Rule says: Feb 24, 2010 9:59 AM

    cut off right before Janks could get a jab in on Steve Lankford’s mom.

  26. WarrenMoonGOAT says: Feb 24, 2010 10:04 AM

    WTH i was watching that and minute i heard his voice i knew it wasn’t westbrook, i’m thinkin westbrook sounds alot more country and illeterate then this

  27. Peoples Champ says: Feb 24, 2010 10:21 AM

    Scott Van Pelt & ESPN = OWNED!

  28. toe-to-toe bird law says: Feb 24, 2010 10:38 AM

    WarrenMoonGOAT says:
    February 24, 2010 10:04 AM
    more country and illeterate then this
    ———————————————
    Define irony: Someone who tries to use the word “illiterate” in a sentence, but is incapable of spelling it properly.

  29. 4liberty says: Feb 24, 2010 10:43 AM

    everybody else is laughing at the tools known as olbermann and eisen

  30. encinitasraider says: Feb 24, 2010 11:04 AM

    does it matter if they got fooled? They fool a lot of people by calling themselves news reporters. I guess ESPN doesn’t do any fact checking or background before putting news out…LOL

  31. JoeSchmoe says: Feb 24, 2010 11:20 AM

    Somewhere in Bristol, a college intern is being Mike Leached right about now… dark small closet with no idea when he’s going to be let out.

  32. runtheballandy says: Feb 24, 2010 11:46 AM

    I was watching when this call took place. How anyone could have thought that the voice speaking was Westbrook is pretty pathectic. Not only the voice, but what he was saying, you would have to be oblivious to reality to fall for that. Oh wait, its ESPN, they are oblivious, and all their anchors think they are entertainers. You suck Van Pelt..

  33. mcfierce says: Feb 24, 2010 11:53 AM

    Capt. Jenks also got thru the ESPN screeners as Steve Bartman a few years ago, and fooled Dan Patrick on the 6pm Sportscenter. The guy is prolific. He usually targets news channels during bad events (plane crashes, earthquakes). The news people are so desperate to break a story, or get an exclusive that they don’t do the checks that they should do.

  34. RichieBugs83 says: Feb 24, 2010 12:16 PM

    Howard Stern’s penis.

  35. phillyeagleschamps says: Feb 24, 2010 12:17 PM

    “Two mice and and a bucket of cream!”

  36. KingJoe! says: Feb 24, 2010 12:39 PM

    Well his most famous is the OJ bronco chase.

  37. Joe in Toronto, Canada says: Feb 24, 2010 12:41 PM

    It couldn’t happen to a better network than BSPN.
    Hats off to the king of all media, Howard Stern.

  38. WarrenMoonGOAT says: Feb 24, 2010 12:49 PM

    @ toe-to-toe bird law
    i wasn’t really trying to be funny but when Westbrook talks he sounds country as hell

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