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Bob Griese made a really stupid comment on Saturday afternoon while in the announcing booth for Minnesota-Ohio State game, and it wasn't anything even related to justifying the Big 10's place in the national hierarchy. No, it was much worse. And much more racist -- while ESPN was showing a graphic with the top-5 NASCAR drivers, Chris Speilman questioned where Juan Pablo-Montoya was.

And Griese responded that Montoya was "out having a taco." (which you can hear at the bottom of the post). Naturally, he's been suspended for a week by the network, who's having a bit of an, ahem, rough week.

But, yeah, anyway, ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz says Griese will not be working a game this week. Krulewitz says ESPN has spoken to Griese and "he understands the comment was inappropriate."

Now, that's great that Griese knows that, but it's kind of shoddy that this is somehow flying under the radar because, frankly, this is kind of really, really, bad thing -- it was obviously racist, it was malicious as hell and it wasn't even really accurate; Montoya is freaking Colombian. Sigh.

Anyway, on the bright side, Griese didn't even manage to harm the much, MUCH richer Montoya, who refused to comment on the situation or even acknowledge that Griese was a real human being, stating that he'd never heard of him. So, yeah, that's a bigger burn. 

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