Detroit Columnists Are Well Intentioned Idiots
There was only one sports debate this Halloween—Did Jon Kitna’s costume cross the line?
After a Detroit TV station showed footage of Kitna dressed as a naked Joe Cullen, two local Detroit columnists (Drew Sharp and Terry Foster) penned columns criticizing the costume. Sharp specifically chastised Kitna for bringing embarrassment to Cullen and his family by reminding everybody of the incident.
He crossed the line this time and owes Cullen an apology, if for nothing else but for pushing that embarrassing evening back to the forefront of local consciousness.
I understand that as a local columnist Sharp has some responsibility to address the incident, but by writing a column about the costume didn’t Sharp helped it become a national story and end up doing the same thing for which he criticized Kitna? We can never know what would have happened with the story if Sharp hadn’t addressed it, but the column certainly brought the incident the attention of many people and played some part in the AP, ESPN.com, and SI.com picking up the story. Next time Sharp should find something else to write about.
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