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Costas had a choice:
He could blame a black football player or he could blame a gun.
Which do you think he chose?
Not really, but you'd think this nationally-televised sermon on gun control might at least land the guy an offer of a weekend show, or something. In the wake of the horrific murder-suicide that rocked the NFL over the weekend, Costas devoted a halftime monologue during NBC's Sunday Night Football broadcast to repeating the anti-gun inanities of a Kansas City-based sportswriter:
MSNBC joking aside, this was not one of the famed sportscaster's finer moments. Costas can't hide behind the "I was merely quoting someone else's opinion"...
Because the player was black, there will be no criticism of him allowed.