Boston TV host jokes about Roger Goodell's 'murder'

Boston sports fans are renowned for their passion, their devotion, their single-minded allegiance to their teams. Perspective? Yeah, not so much.

Patriots fans believe NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has it in for the franchise, or at least quarterback Tom Brady, and to be fair, Goodell certainly seems to give that impression. But, as usually happens when sports broadcasters start channeling public outrage into hot sports takes, things went a little too far. Chatting on CSNNE, Kirk Minihane offered up a way for Patriots fans to be rid of Roger Goodell:

"Hire someone to murder him," Minihane said. "He's a rich guy. It's not that complicated." At the end of the clip, Minihane noted that he was joking.

Now, obviously the anti-PC crowd will leap to this "joking" defense and say it was sarcasm, everybody's too sensitive, blah blah. You can question the taste of someone advocating murder in our current hyper-violent climate. Rather than getting on our own little soapbox and declaiming the coarsening of discourse in our society, we'll chalk this one up to a poor choice of words.

Of course, the whole "I was joking!" defense seems to work best when you're the joker, not the target. Example: we could say all Boston fans ought to be loaded onto an oil tanker and shipped to Antarctica so they can't annoy the rest of America with their self-absorbed bleating that somehow combines the worst aspects of both arrogance and victimhood. But hey, we're just joking! So it's all good, right, Boston fans?

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