It was bad enough that ESPN allowed whomever is in charge of their GameDay twitter account to tweet out a picture of this sign and enter it in as part of their competition in the first place, but to let it win and then especially go on to allow the "and Appropriate" part is incomprehensible and an all time new low for a company that's already had some pretty bad lows. I think the person running the GameDay twitter should lose their job and ESPN should issue an official apology. Yeah, I'm not holding my breath on those happening though.
Here's the now deleted tweet:
Here is your winner of the Most "RT'd" (and Appropriate) @pizzahut GameDay Sign of the Day from Tuscaloosa. pic.twitter.com/9rOFfzyiKt
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 19, 2015
You tell 'em Shelly!
@CollegeGameDay @pizzahut ok that's not funny AT ALL. VERY classless. I'm pretty shocked at you. #EnoughIsEnough #stopthehate
— Shelley Meyer (@spinnershells) September 20, 2015
Additions:
ESPN apologizes for the multiple tweets it ended up deleting:
You never solve anything in the digital conversation by just hitting delete. We apologize. Were going to be better. pic.twitter.com/dIvTmXzVW2
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 21, 2015
This tweet sums up the situation pretty nicely:
This was the sign (apparently by Saturday Down South), but the issue was more over GameDay's decision to feature it: pic.twitter.com/graINmLkxu
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) September 21, 2015