Football Announcing, The Worldwide Leader, and Political Correctness

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I try to avoid political topics on here. Part of it is I don't like politics, I don't like politicians, and I hate the extremists on both sides of the aisle who just scream back and forth at each other, seemingly now louder than ever. But I heard about this story last night, and now that it's been confirmed, I feel like I had to say something.

By now you've heard ad nauseum about the evils perpetrated around the rallies and counter protests in Charlottsville, Virginia as part of the ongoing craziness that is the United States in 2017. It's prompted many places in southern states to take down statues of figures from the Confederacy or for opponents of these statues to take them down themselves. At the end of the day, this is probably for the best, but this isn't the point of this post... as I'm sure you guessed by the title.

A week from Saturday, the University of Virginia's football team will be playing FCS school William and Mary at home in Charlottesville. Ordinarily, all that would come of this is Virginia losing an NCSS point for the purposes of the Death to the BCS Playoffs, and that would be the end of it because they don't have any other lower level opponents on their schedule at the time of this writing, and thus they won't get a one year ban from the postseason. Virginia will probably win, and William and Mary will take home a decent payday, and everyone goes home none the worse for wear. Instead, in this heated political climate, all hell broke loose last night.