Beast Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 (edited) game due to his name possibly offending people. https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2017/08/22/robert-lee-espn-announcer-university-virginia-charlottesville If this **** is true, this country is more !@#$ed than I originally thought. Edited August 23, 2017 by Binghamton Beast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 I'm so sorry, @TheOnion. Time to close up shop; real life has overtaken you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cugalabanza Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Holy ****, that is stupid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Sack Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Is that the same ESPN that earlier in the week held a fantasy slave auction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkAF43 Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 This is pathetic. Poor Asian guy gets reassigned for really no logical reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Is that the same ESPN that earlier in the week held a fantasy slave auction? What? I think the original topic is fake fwiw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 This is pathetic. Poor Asian guy gets reassigned for really no logical reason. You will be made to care. How long before the demands mount for Washington, DC to change its name to Columbia, and the State of Washington's name to Olympia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilzfancy Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 ESPN is quickly becoming the CNN of sports, irrelevant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherpa Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Metastasis stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 ESPN is making this up. He was assigned to other teams for the first 3 weeks and generally covered Midwestern small teams for his career. Why is he just all of the sudden jumping up to a big time D1 school? The 506 is always 💯. And he was assigned to other games and still shows those games ESPN is trying to create news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 ESPN should be embarrassed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpberr Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 He should sue, if true. Blatant, no doubt name discrimination. No different from "He's got a last name of Abraamowitz. He *must* be Jewish." or "Mykell, he's obvious a black man, right?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 @yashar Just received this email from an ESPN executive re the Robert Lee controversy. 12:54 AM - 23 Aug 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 They really think this guy is a giant 26cornerblitz, don't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 @yashar Just received this email from an ESPN executive re the Robert Lee controversy. 12:54 AM - 23 Aug 2017 Classy how they call their own guy "anonymous" and then alter his schedule because of HIS NAME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 @yashar Just received this email from an ESPN executive re the Robert Lee controversy. 12:54 AM - 23 Aug 2017 Nobody would have noticed or cared in October. They created the flap on their own. Still, the media schadenfreude is hilarious to watch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 LMAO @PFTCommenter I will be boycoting ESPN untill they fix this travesty by forcing Raven's announcer Gerry Sandusky at gunpoint 2 do ply by play 4 Penn State Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 So when are they firing Bob Ley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cugalabanza Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 So when are they firing Bob Ley? ESPN just released a statement saying they were aware of the concerns about Bob Ley’s potential continued employment. They do not want to be perceived as insensitive by not acting and yet they do not want to rush to action that could be seen as inappropriate. Furthermore, they see how this position of overarching reluctance could be interpreted by all parties as complicit in ways that might be interpreted as socially irresponsible. As a result, a new statue of Bob Ley will be erected today on the grounds of the ESPN headquarters in Bristol, CT. Then, this evening the statue will be promptly torn down by members of the last generation of Icelandic Down Syndrome survivors, in a grand gesture of celebration of the differences among people that may or may not be identified and/or objected to in accordance with the respective cultural climate which deems it however so, in the spirit of freedom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted August 23, 2017 Author Share Posted August 23, 2017 ESPN is making this up. He was assigned to other teams for the first 3 weeks and generally covered Midwestern small teams for his career. Why is he just all of the sudden jumping up to a big time D1 school? The 506 is always . And he was assigned to other games and still shows those games ESPN is trying to create news I don't think they are making it up. They generally hate Conservatives and have embraced the Liberal point of view. That's why Curt aschilling is no longer employed there.....and hy they recently had to lay off hundreds. People are sick of ESPN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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