Keith Olbermann: Village Idiot
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 5:59 pm
DMN:
Texas A&M isn’t making any friends over it’s protection of the “12th Man” trademark.
The week began with news of A&M warning Buffalo Bills fans that a website using the trademark must be taken down or legal action would follow. The site, 12thManThunder.com, was created to petition for the Bills to remain in Buffalo.
As news spread about A&M’s protection of it’s trademark, we learned that one of the site’s four founders, Charles “Chuckie” Sonntag, is an amputee with very little funding to fight back or accept any legal action.
Sonntag claims that he worked diligently to change the site’s name and to take down banners promoting the site but A&M insisted the pace was not quick enough.
Now the outrage has begun. Aggie fans believe their school is protecting what it owns, while others argue that A&M is being a bully in this case.
A support of the latter backing is ESPN’s Keith Olbermann who went as far Wednesday to call A&M and it’s interim president, Dr. Mark A. Hussey, “The World’s Worst Person in Sports” on his nightly show.
In the video Olbermann slams A&M saying that the entire school, including it’s fans and students, “don’t care” about attacking a man who is a double amputee with little money despite it’s large revenue each season through donations and athletics.
Therefore, Olbermann says, he doesn’t care either.
“Until you fix this, screw you,” Olbermann said.
Texas A&M isn’t making any friends over it’s protection of the “12th Man” trademark.
The week began with news of A&M warning Buffalo Bills fans that a website using the trademark must be taken down or legal action would follow. The site, 12thManThunder.com, was created to petition for the Bills to remain in Buffalo.
As news spread about A&M’s protection of it’s trademark, we learned that one of the site’s four founders, Charles “Chuckie” Sonntag, is an amputee with very little funding to fight back or accept any legal action.
Sonntag claims that he worked diligently to change the site’s name and to take down banners promoting the site but A&M insisted the pace was not quick enough.
Now the outrage has begun. Aggie fans believe their school is protecting what it owns, while others argue that A&M is being a bully in this case.
A support of the latter backing is ESPN’s Keith Olbermann who went as far Wednesday to call A&M and it’s interim president, Dr. Mark A. Hussey, “The World’s Worst Person in Sports” on his nightly show.
In the video Olbermann slams A&M saying that the entire school, including it’s fans and students, “don’t care” about attacking a man who is a double amputee with little money despite it’s large revenue each season through donations and athletics.
Therefore, Olbermann says, he doesn’t care either.
“Until you fix this, screw you,” Olbermann said.