Announcers Should Probably Just Keep Hobey Baker Jokes to Themselves

↵Steigerwald quickly realized his comment that the player went down hard "but not as hard as Hobey Baker" was an off-color one. He made a half-hearted remark to acknowledge that, but it probably won't placate the people who are already upset about the disrespect of the deceased.↵While certainly an awkward delivery and not a particularly funny joke, humor about death is racier than most anything you hear during a typical sports broadcast. But offensive? Not unless gags about a death that occurred nearly a century ago really raise your hackles. If you've never made a morbid joke, feel free to condemn the guy. That the comment happened on the anniversary of Baker's death is really the chief factor that makes it troubling. Anyway, since it was in Pittsburgh, just be glad he didn't make a Roberto Clemente joke.↵

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