— Drew Narmour (@Drew_Narmour) October 25, 2017 THE TRIFECTA!!! Honestly, if there was a time to drop a Hurricane Katrina "joke" that you clearly had saved for a 4th quarter run in the game against the team from New Orleans then it's on the heels of Al Michaels making a Harvey Weinstein "joke" and a volleyball announcer making a9/11 "joke". If there truly is power in numbers then maybe professional broadcasters aren't getting too big for their britches in going to outlandish lengths in the insanely misguided search for an awkward laugh. At the very least, Kevin Calabro can blame an epidemic that's oddly afflicted even one of the best in business. I should mention that it's incredibly tone deaf to use a natural disaster that took the lives of well over a thousand people and left the lives of thousands of others in ruins to take an insensitive dig at a region of the country and it's basketball team. Unfortunately, I can't do that without acknowledging that this particular jab was at least mildly relevant to the game at hand when it was thrown. I'm not condoning it or implying that it was remotely close to landing. However, I know for a fact it's not the least analogous botched attempt at comedy by a non-comedian, because - somehow - over the last week and a half I have heard two others that were even more wildly out of left field. Christ man, if it's that hard to display topical wit without encroaching on subject matter that's probably needed it's own 'Strong' hashtag at some point then just accept that funny ain't your thing. Either that, or just have your >140 character apology ready...
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