too weird even to be in The Onion, but it’s reality

Actually, sounds more like an April Fool’s joke. And how is it even possible?

The Michigan State-North Carolina men’s basketball game in November will be played on board the U.S.S. Carl Vinson, the aircraft carrier from which Osama bin Laden’s body was dropped into the sea.

This has to be the most bizarre sports idea of all time. Is this really happening?

HERE.

If you want my opinion, I think this is in horrendously bad taste, offers a gratuitous terrorist target, and seems like a needless way to mix sports with crude patriotism. And I’m perfectly happy that bin Laden is gone, so this isn’t me trying to say something else under the guise of a critique of bad taste. It’s simply in bad taste. Someone please cancel this before it happens.

If you’re going to do that, then why not turn the U.S.S. Carl Vinson into a charity al-Qaeda haunted house for Halloween? Or allow people to pay $500 to drop a replica bin Laden mannequin into the Pacific Ocean? It’s that crass an idea.

Or why not fly the Michigan State and North Carolina teams into Pakistan on stealth helicopters, pave a court in the yard of the bin Laden compound using quick-dry concrete, then use Navy SEALs to fight holding actions around the court for two hours while the game is in progress?

Whatever happened to Obama’s line, “We don’t need to spike the football.”? The basketball game is really spiking it. Unless I’m missing some angle here, this is the height of crudity and vulgarity.