Quick Hits 8/27 #2: Several Entries Into the WTF Sweepstakes, and Another Sacrifice to Football's Altar

• Beginning with the sacrifice:  Deadspin reports the unfortunate sacrifice to the altar of football of Michael Keck, who, after two uneventful years at Missouri, transferred to smaller Missouri State, stood out for one year... 
• ... and then it all fell apart.  Major concussion in a drill in a 2009 post-season camp led to one thing leading to another, and Keck was out of football and on his way to dead at 25 two years later.  Though the cause of death is believed an unrelated heart problem, Keck feared he had CTE -- and was proven right in the autopsy.

And, almost uncoincidentally, several entries into the WTF Department, where you just scratch your head and wonder how people around sports (especially football) could be so brain-dead...

• (Hopefully soon-to-be-former) Chargers announcer Hank Bauer leads the list with one of the stupidest on-air comments in ages.

Yes, we get that pre-season football can tax the material for any announcer.

Bauer goes completely overboard, and should've been fired, for this:

""But then again you know how copper wire was invented? Somebody dropped a penny between Josh and his family member," said Bauer. "I say that respectfully and endearingly, my partner.""

His partner is Josh Lewin, who is Jewish.

Should've been shit-canned for it, got a one-game (preseason) suspension instead.  Why?

Bauer was a Charger in the 1970's.

• In what is becoming a far-too-common occurrence, a story of heroism is proven to be anything but.

(Hopefully soon-to-be-former) Spoiled Child Josh Shaw was in the news over the weekend for spraining his ankles in the heroic rescue of his cousin -- which he just admitted today he fabricated the story.

Suspended from the team indefinitely -- hopefully soon to be buh-bye from USC entirely.

• STILL no word from the frauds at the NFL on Suh or Swearinger.
• Josh Gordon's latest suspension has been upheld.  He's out at least a year, drug program repeat.  He is at least the 26th NFL player to be suspended this offseason.  No one is reporting this number.