‘Official’ sponsors officially annoying

HOW TO avoid road rage: Don’t listen to Jets or Giants games on the radio. They are so slathered in commercials — between plays, too — for the “Official Whatever of the New York Jets or Giants” that even the ads before the ads are sponsored.

Giants radio includes ads for the “Official Ear Buds of the New York Giants” — seriously — as well as competing auto manufacturers allowing the promotion of the “Official Luxury Car of the New York Giants.” How playby-play men Bob Papa, Giants, and Bob Wischusen, Jets, can focus on the games is worthy of a documentary or cranial examinations.

➤ Several readers have noted that home run or strikeout Dave Kingman was just a bit before his time. Heck, in 1975 with the Mets, he struck out 153 times, hit 36 homers and batted .231. In 2020, those are superstar numbers!

➤ So now that anyone with a three-digit IQ recognizes that Marxist burn-and-loot Black Lives Matter may be the biggest con job in U.S. history, what of its victims? Does Grant Napear, fired as a racist by the NBA Kings after 32 years as its broadcast voice for tweeting “All Lives Matter,” have his career and reputation restored?

➤ Here’s a modest request of the Golf Channel: Wake up! It continues to cover putts toward the lower part of the screen with scrolling graphics.

➤ Anyone else starting to like “Washington Football Team” — WFT — as a keeper?

➤ Assisted living: Fox’s NFL time/score graphics now include a dot to indicate which team has the ball — for those who need such help.

➤ Reader Vin Ryan: “Mike Trout is first in homers, second in RBIs, hitting .296 and playing a great center field. Yet, he’s 15th in the AL in WAR?” I’ve sung it for years, Vin, “WAR, what is it good for?”