Just when things were going so well

That NFL player who was killed in Afghanistan was memorialized yesterday in San Jose, Calif., and everyone was pouring on the sentimentality when:

Tillman's youngest brother, Rich, wore a rumpled white T-shirt, no jacket, no tie, no collar, and immediately swore into the microphone. He hadn't written anything, he said, and with the starkest honesty, he asked mourners to hold their spiritual bromides.

"Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f -- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he's f -- ing dead.''

I wonder if EPSN -- which showed the ceremony live -- had a five-second delay on that broadcast.