"Let him get barbecued."

Jim Thorpe on Kelly Tilghman and the Golfweek noose cover:

"We know there was no racist intent. It was just a bad choice of words,'' he said. "But the guy from Golfweek? Let him get barbecued. That's just a major mistake on his part.''

Just a suggestion to the Golfweek staff: I would not put an image of Jim Thorpe barbecuing Dave Seanor on this week's cover. Just my advice.  

Comments

[JSS]

He's right. Kelly's comment was so off the cuff, so quick she had no ill intent.

The Golfweek guy, trying to make the news instead of reporting on it screwed up big time, on purpose.

[Iggy]

No screw-up either way. The PGA Tour is way too sensitive. Yuh wouldn't think so, being a Republican domain.

[RGW]

At this point, which thin-skinned PC among us would like to be the first to claim offense to Jim Thorpe's racially-insensitive barbecue comment?

Will the next Jeff Dhamer please stand up?

I think Dave Seanor should demand an apology.

[Kentucky Golfer]

Well, actually, what Jim suggested often accompanied real-life lynchings. Which is just one of the reasons this "incident" transcends the golf world.

[MLK Jr.]

Kentucky Golfer, the DEMs are in South Carolina this week, and that state's confederate flag is a hot topic.

"If your a street cleaner, then be the best street cleaner you can be, and when you die people will say this man was the greatest street cleaner....MLK Jr.

Do you think Jim Thorpe knows the PGA Tour is open for business today, MLK's national holiday! If Finchem was so sensitive about race think he'd be working today??

Somebody mentioned on another posting that Finchem was wagging the dog and astrotruffing Dave Seanor's demise, I agree with that mentality.

[Iggy]

Artificial intelligence, Thorpe.

[iacas]

I wonder if Seanor would have been fired if he'd put the noose on the cover a week earlier when the topic was still relevant. I think his biggest mistake may have been waiting a week.

I personally find Kelly's original statement a bigger "mistake" than the noose cover... but the timing of the latter was delayed.

What's Seanor getting fired tell everyone? Goof up by suggesting murder and you get a small suspension, but try to cover the goof-up and you get fired?