25 August, 2017
The William and Mary-Virginia game will take place just three weeks after 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed as a result of violence stemming from clashes between protesters battling over Charlottesville's plan to remove a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Betraying her liberal constitution, she opens with: "In the testosterone-laced world of sports, sometimes your name means everything". He says ESPN's decision to remove announcer Robert Lee from a recent football game is an example. "Not in today's America", Jones explained. According to the network, the two parties made a decision over the weekend of August 12, when a woman counter-protesting the original rally was killed when a protester drove his auto into a crowd of counter protesters.
Antifa may be passionate, but that passion is more about destroying than it is about equality. The night before the tragedy in Charlottesville, which left one woman dead and 19 others injured, white nationalists marched across the University of Virginia campus carrying torches and chanting racist slogans. The University of Virginia is in Charlottesville.
"In that moment it felt right to all parties", ESPN said in a statement.
Because of its beyond stupid decision, ESPN was justifiably panned on social media. Dave Weekley, who had been scheduled to call the Youngstown-Pittsburgh game, now will call the game in Charlottesville, according to the Gazette. If you read that question and don't understand how tough the situation Lee and the network were facing, step back and think it through again.
