The Stupidest Thing We Heard During Sunday Night Football

On NBC's "Sunday Night Football" coverage, pretty much everything except the game is a disaster.  They seem, like so many other sports shows, seem overly concerned with entertainment with that ridiculous 45-minute Faith Hill song and the ever expanding smugness of Dan Patrick (who we used to like back in the days of "The Big Show" with Olberman) along with the holy one, Tony Dungy.  Who is the audience for this crap and why is it necessary?  We would assume that most people put on the football game to, you know, watch football.  Are there really dudes out there who deliberately turn on Channel 4 at 8:15 to see Faith Hill singing a terrible song with a dress that barley covers her woohaa? 

Anyway, what usually saves the broadcast is the Michaels-Collinsworth duo.  Collinsworth, particularly, normally does such a good job of being honest and calling guys out when they screw up.  As you might have guessed, we're fans of calling people out.  That might be why we were so surprised to hear them discuss Donte Stallworth's appearance in the game for Baltimore, it went something like this:

And now we see Donte Stallworth who was suspended all of last season after being involved in a car accident in which a man was killed.

A car accident in which a man was killed?  Is that really what happened guys?  They make it sound like he and someone else smashed into each other on the way home from Sunday mass.  Was O.J. involved in a knife accident in which two people were killed too? (Just kidding of course, O.J. is innocent).  Did Japan missed the better part of several decades after being involved in two separate incidents in which things fell out of planes? (Oh how we love being overly dramatic to make a point)  No, Stallworth wasn't just involved in an accident, he was drunk and he ran a guy over and killed him.  And then he went to jail for 30 days.  You can argue the details of the incident all you want but it was more than just an "accident"  Guess that part just slipped the guys' minds.  Unbelievable.

We get it, it's a football game and the announcers are not going to constantly bring up all the off the field stuff by calling Roethlisberger a rapist, Vick a dogkiller and Leonard Little a chronic drunk-driver and mother killer (are we the only ones who remember this happened?) but, if you are going to bring it up, at least be truthful.  Spare us the bullshit lines about accidents or just don't say anything next time.