TheComeback- Quarterback Gyree Durante was removed from the team after he decided to take a knee during the playing of the national anthem. He was removed from the program for what the school claimed was a definitive stance against the team vote to kneel before the national anthem during the coin toss and stand during the anthem. Two other players were then removed from the team for not fully kneeling during the coin toss when the team had voted to take a knee in a show of unity.
“What we understood to be shared agreement among players, student leaders, and coaches has not been adequately supported,” Albright president Dr. Jacquelyn Fetrow said in a released statement. “As a result, each of the students dismissed from the football team for failure to comply with the team’s shared agreement established for that day has been offered reinstatement to the team.” ----- What?! No! You don't say? The no-name Division III school that's about 600 miles away from anything that can be legitimately considered modern society went back on the decision that placed them somewhere amongst the periphery of an insanely polarizing nationwide controversy? The college whose football stadium seats 5,000 couldn't withstand the disproportional amount of backlash that resulted from turning a non-reimbursed teenager into a victim of free speech? I can't believe they had to succumb to the pressures of a public that slightly outnumbers the 275 overly conservative fans that were made uncomfortable by a player kneeling during the National Anthem. Seriously, who could have possibly seen that story blowing up to become far bigger than an institution of higher education that enrolls just north of 2,000 students was able to handle? Oh well, whatever Albright College's Athletic Department lacks in resolve that clearly make up for in obedience. I mean, that was just about the most submissively worded backtracking in the history of dumbass decisions that were almost guaranteed to backfire. They honestly might as well have released a statement that simply said 'uncle', because "has not been adequately supported" reads a hell of a lot like "....okay fine, I'll do it. Just let me go". Kicking a black athlete off a football team that looks to be predominantly African American for peacefully protesting on behalf of a racially driven cause. Seems pretty stunning that wasn't met unanimous approval. Who would have thought it would have behooved them to take the temperature of the room - or really, the entire political climate as a whole - before going full-snowflake and kicking a couple players out of it?
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