ISU student garners national attention after meeting Musburger

Stephen Koenigsfeld

An ISU student has made national headlines this week after obtaining a unique autograph from ESPN commentator Brent Musburger.

Matt Mummelthei, a freshman in pre-business, approached Musburger at the men’s basketball game Monday night between Kansas and Iowa State and asked him to signed a large poster of supermodel Katherine Webb.

“I just walked down from the student section and asked, ‘Can I have your autograph?'” Mummelthei said. “He hadn’t seen the poster yet, and so I pulled it out and he just started chuckling.”

The joke with the Webb poster dates back to the BCS National Championship game, when Musburger referred to Webb, who was in the stands, as “smokin’.” This incited a nationwide controversy with Musburger at its epicenter.

Mummelthei said Musburger never made any comment that was derogatory toward Webb when signing the poster.

“He was a complete sport about the whole thing,” Mummelthei said. “After he signed it, I got a picture with him.”

The picture, taken by Mummelthei’s girlfriend, has since gone viral across the nation and has made its way in national headlines.

If it weren’t for Westendorf and his friend Dan Clemens, the experience would have never happened. Mummelthei said at the time of purchase, he had no money and so Clemens acted as a “financial backer for the project.”