ICYMI:
#PennState
football players wear shirts in support of teammate Jonathan Sutherland before game against
#Iowa
The shirts from
@ChampsPennState
read "Chains, tattoos, dreads and WE ARE." Safety Jonathan Sutherland, received a racist letter, criticizing his hair.
#WeAre
#PSU
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Penn State personnel confiscated the shirts from the players while warming up.
According to Holly Rowe (
@sportsiren
) , head coach James Franklin was upset the players didn’t discuss their intentions to wear the shirts, before hand.
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"We asked our students to remove the shirts out of an abundance of caution for NCAA compliance." Penn State said in a statement released during the game.
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@Boobie24Dixon
@ChampsPennState
I love this! It's so great to see. I hope that guy who wrote the letter was at home watching and felt as tiny as he is.
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@WJACTV
@ChampsPennState
Send me one of these shirts. I know where the dude lives that wrote the letter. I will hand deliver one to him.
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@CaneLife1
@ChampsPennState
IF, IF, IF Penn State did not publicly speak out against the letter from that alum, why would black players want to play for that school?
Know your power.
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@AWainwrightTV
@ChampsPennState
Top black recruits need to exercise their powers and stop going to school like Penn State. Football programs like Penn state can't survive without them.
#PennStateFootball
#Blackrecruits
@jemelehill
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@ChampsPennState
The shirts show weakness. Strong people don’t fret and obsess over criticism, especially from some random person who doesn’t seem to be particularly sharp. Rally over what? Man up and move on. It was one person’s opinion, if it was even a legit letter.
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@ChampsPennState
I get what they are doing but they gave that 1 letter so much power over them. 1 person trolling made it to TV that was most likely just trying to do that.
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@ChampsPennState
That’s insane but it’s also .009 of PSU fans and I can’t stand them.
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@AngelaSharma1
@ChampsPennState
For the guys at
@PennStateFball
always remember the words from the great Bernie Mac
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