NBC pre-empted Sunday Night Football tonight for President Obama’s speech about Friday’s tragic shooting and apparently some football fans weren’t too happy:

By now, no one should be surprised that twitter and social media have once again become the de facto mouthpiece for our nation’s racist hicks, but we can gleam two additional lessons from this incident:

1) For some, football is apparently more important than the collective grief over the lives lost in Friday’s senseless shooting spree.

2) And seeing a Black man on their TV during an NFL football game is apparently both unexpected and unwelcome.

But then there were those tweets that were disturbing in a different way:

Really? Bob’s Burgers?

God bless America, indeed!