Football’s a frivolous enough pursuit that we can sometimes duck into it and find a moment of refuge from tragedy.
But it’s also a small enough world that it can’t escape that tragedy, either.
Chiefs safety Sanders Commings knows first hand this week, as his cousin was one of the nine people murdered in a Charleston church.
Commings tweeted out a message that he had lost his cousin, the Rev. Clementa Pinkney, a pastor and state senator who was among those killed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Wednesday night during a prayer meeting.