Eamonn covered the Rod Marinelli-Rob Parker spat quite well this morning, so this post serves less to opine, and more to inform: Rod Marinelli has spoken about the Rob Parker question. And Rod Marinelli does not like when you involve his family in a question. Not one bit:

“Anytime you attack my daughter, I’ve got a problem with that. In a room of stink … and as a man and it was premeditated. I think there was something wrong with that, yeah.”

When asked if Parker had crossed the line, Marinelli said, “Big time.”

Marinelli refused to address two questions about what he meant by “room of stink.”

“I’ll leave it at that,” he said, adding that he had not talked to Parker and had no desire to do so.

On why he didn’t immediately respond to Parker’s question, Marinelli said: “I just don’t think that’s the right stage for that. To me, it’s not. It’s the wrong stage for the game of football and for me to even react to something like that, on a stage about football — it’s a kid’s game, it’s for the kids. It’s wrong.”

For what it’s worth, Parker went on “First Take” today and again apologized. Also, let’s remember: He did say “on a lighter note” before the question was asked. (Though, I could say that before a lot of things, and I’d still come off like an idiot.) So, somewhere in my heart, I’d like to give a small sliver of benefit to Parker, because though his question was horribly timed and not funny, he seems to realize his question was horribly timed and not funny. Or he’s at least pretending like he realizes that.

Ah, life on the Detroit Lions beat, almost as fun as life on the Knicks beat last year.

Via Pro Football Talk.