Bob Griese becomes the most recent victim of political correctness. Bob Griese was the Miami Dolphins quarterback for several years, most notably in 1972 when he and his team had a perfect year, including a Super Bowl win! He's been a class guy, that is, until, last week when he was doing the broadcast of a college football game and all that is good about Bob Griese was flushed down the toilet. He was promptly suspended, possibly fired - who knows?
"Out having a taco." That's what Griese said during a college-football broadcast a week ago, trying to make a joke about race-car driver Juan Pablo Montoya. Does Montoya eat tacos? Who the hell cares? If you are Mexican or from another Latin American country, would you be offended? If he said that an Italian was woofing down a pizza instead of paying attention to the matters at hand, would I or my Italian cousins be offended? Hell no!
It may be a good idea to see if a level-headed Columbian was or could have been offended by Griese's remark. Now, if he substitutes a taco for a line of cocaine......different story.
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