I don't think Witten is that easy going. More of a hard ***.
I get that that was the purpose Skip was putting the anecdote to, that TO is a cancer. That's my point. TO is the cancer because Witten wanted to fight him?
Skip had just finished pointing out in an aside that TO is smart and generally has a point. That tends to piss certain types of people off, the type that aren't as smart and don't have as good a point. I don't see their inability to argue the point and resorting to violence instead as a cancer *in TO*.
Going back to all the "TO is a cancer" talk way back when, all I ever saw was people getting their panties in a wad over something TO *said*. Something usually true. Yeah, it wasn't always something helpful to say, because the world is full of delicate daisies, but getting your panties in a bunch over it ain't helpful either, but it's always the hysterical delicate daisies who are treated as being an innocent party to the big meanie who said something true.
All anyone ever had to do was say "TO says lots of things. He brings it on the field. That's what matters." End of problem, for adults with emotional control, who aren't hysterical delicate daisies.