Forget about standing outside the fire.
Garth Brooks, unintentional as it was, jumped right into the social-media fray — all because he wore a Barry Sanders Lions jersey during his Ford Field concert last Saturday.
Detroit fans sure appreciated the local touch. The rest of the country, well, let's just say it went way over their head.
Given we're knee-deep into yet another super-charged presidential-election season, Brooks' jersey gesture was amazingly (or not-so amazingly) mistaken as some kind of an endorsement for Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders.