The Giants have been so bad, even the jokes are cringeworthy.
NBC’s iconic broadcaster Al Michaels pulled out a whopper of a truly terrible joke Sunday, as the Giants visited the Broncos, suggesting a struggling football team has had it worse recently than a person outed for an alleged pattern of using his Hollywood power to sexually assault.
“Let’s face it, the Giants are coming off a worse week than Harvey Weinstein,” Michaels cracked in the third quarter. “And they’re up by 14 points.”
“Only my L.A. guy comes up with that one,” analyst Cris Collinsworth said with a laugh.
After the likening was torn apart on social media, Michaels issued an apology.
“It was not meant in that manner,” Michaels said. “So my apologies, and we’ll just leave it at that.”
The Giants had a historically bad week in football terms last week, having their season most likely crushed in a 27-22 loss to the Chargers, while simultaneously losing Odell Beckham Jr. and Brandon Marshall for the year. The team then suspended Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie this week.
Weinstein’s bad week does not need “football terms” qualifiers. The big-shot film producer was the subject of multiple exposes with allegations of more than a dozen women accusing him of crimes ranging from sexual harassment to rape. His wife left him, he was fired from his production company and just about everyone in Hollywood is denouncing him.