The Denver Broncos will wear white in Super Bowl 50 and the Carolina Panthers will wear black. How appropriate. For a Super Bowl with so many great storylines, this one is starting to revolve around an unfortunate one: race.
In what should be a celebration of what is probably Peyton Manning’s last game, people are ignoring a central rule to enjoying sports and injecting the subject of race into the discussion. Religion and politics are sitting on the bench wondering when they’ll get their shot.
Sports discussions are usually immune from these verboten dinner party topics because it’s about the results on the field and not about the ancillary nonsense floating around it.