AOTW 8-25-2017
Altho’ there are many worthy candidates this week, I will have to give it to the beauzeaus at MS-ESPN. They were nominated by my sister and many readers. What did they do? They removed an announcer for an upcoming UVA football game for having the name Robert Lee. What makes it even more stupid is that he is an Asian. My old blog buddy Kim Crawford (not the winemaker from down under – alas) from the old Velociworld blog who is now on Facebook came up with a good solution. Change his name to Lobert Ree. That would fit with his Asian heritage.
This is really getting fucking ridiculous. When are we gonna quit pandering to the 13% of our population that seems to have been born offended? After the Confederate flags are gone and all of the Confederate War memorials have been torn down what will offend them next? When there is fear that an announcer with the name Robert Lee will cause riots we have totally passed the bounds of sanity.
Here’s your participation trophy MS-ESPN.