Broadcast sends mixed message on taunting

SUNDAY, Jags’ linebacker Telvin Smith became the latest brainless pro to try to undermine his team when he was flagged for taunting while returning a late first-half fumble for a TD. Thus, 28-7 soon became 28-14 as Pittsburgh began from midfield with two minutes left.

While CBS’s Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts firmly made this point to viewers, they made no impression on CBS’s truck, which brainlessly continued to replay episodes of showboating in slow motion — TV’s pathetic modern sense of why we watch football.

Based on the fact that he was born in Queens, the Mets again, this season, will honor 50 Cent, the vulgar, women-degrading, threat-issuing rapper and recidivist criminal with arrests for crack and heroin possession, multiple gun possessions and domestic assault.

So where is Rob Manfred’s office to holler, “Oh, no you don’t!”?

And if Queens nativism is the standard, why don’t the Mets share their love? Rikers Island must have inmates from Queens who’d like to be, as the song nearly goes, taken out for the ballgame.

I like CBS’s rookie lead NFL analyst Tony Romo because he speaks football in regular-guy English. He just speaks too much of it. Is there no one at CBS to tell him?

ESPN remains the last to care what LaVar Ball thinks, still even calls them “exclusives.”

Throughout Sunday’s JagsSteelers, CBS noted that both teams and players either didn’t meet or exceed their seasonal averages, thus making new averages that are equally irrelevant.

It will be tough for even ESPN to top CNN’s Headline News for Graphic of the Year. As provided by reader Mitch Cabot, on Jan. 1, HLN reported, “Today’s Super Moon Is The First Of 2018.”