And in light of a dramatic suicide turned spectacle, why was the game even played the following day?
Costas left out the most powerful part of Whitlock’s commentary, which was an excoriating attack on the NFL for letting the Chiefs’ regularly scheduled game be played the very next day after the killings. Nothing to see here — except more football.
The Threat to Football - Rich Lowry - National Review Online
The Belcher story may tell us more about the NFL than the NRA.
12-4-12 Rich Lowry
There’s a reason that halftime of NFL broadcasts is usually reserved for game analysis and highlights rather than social science. NBC announcer Bob Costas showed why with a little sermonette during the Philadelphia Eagles–Dallas Cowboys game Sunday night.
Just a day earlier, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend before driving to the Chiefs’ practice facility and shooting and killing himself in front of the team’s head coach and general manager.
During halftime of Football Night in America, which is not to be confused withMonday Night Football or Thursday Night Football, Costas referred to Belcher’s shocking murder-suicide as “nearly unfathomable.” He then proceeded to fathom it in terms of a clichéd gun-control fable. Costas quoted approvingly sportswriter Jason Whitlock’s argument that “our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy.”
Costas is an extraordinary and justly acclaimed broadcaster, who apparently hasn’t spared a moment’s reflection to the long-running argument over guns in our society. If he had, he wouldn’t have treated such tripe as priceless words of wisdom.
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