"Apparatus! I said apparatus..."

Have you heard about the morning anchor who supposedly dropped the F-bomb after hearing about Peyton Manning's move to the Denver Broncos?  The above YouTube video is the station line on what really happened.

I can't help but remember the time Sally Fitz reportedly told Ralph Rayburn to "stick it up your ass" when both were trying to interview the same person in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew.

We were all still on 12-hour shifts and Sally and Rick Sanchez had been dispatched to field anchor from South Dade.  Both did incredible, award-winning work.  But it was exhausting and stressful.  Ralph and Sally came upon the same story at the same time.  Both wanted the interview and Sally pulled rank.  Unfortunately, her mic was live during the "discussion."

I was pretty sure Princell Hair, then a producer, was in the booth but my pal Bill Pohovey was actually there.  (I was the Assignment Planner and had camped out in my office behind the assignment desk. I was asleep when it all went down)

Sally ended up with the interview.

Shortly thereafter, the Miami Herald reported the incident and Sally, ever the professional, explained that Ralph's IFB had fallen out of his ear and that she was really just pointing it out.

"Apparatus...I said apparatus" she explained to the newspaper.

There was no YouTube in 1992 so I guess we'll never know.