FOX Put Yankees and Red Sox Logos Over the 9/11 Memorial During Baseball Night in America Broadcast
The New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox, 14-1, on Saturday night in front of a capacity crowd at Yankees Stadium. The game was broadcast nationally on FOX as the Baseball Night in America game. As part of the opening FOX showed an ariel view of Manhattan which revealed they had put the Yankees and Red Sox logos over the two pools of the 9/11 Memorial.
Fox WYD pic.twitter.com/uyp6TiLK5E
— CJ Fogler AKA Perc70 #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) July 17, 2022
This was a bad decision. The brief clip was not well-received.
Hard to believe. @FOXSports owes the 9/11 community an apology. On air. For those who do not recognize this aerial image, it is Ground Zero of the 9/11 attacks. The logos are where the WTC Twin Towers used to be, now the sacred pools of the @Sept11Memorial.
— 9/11 Day (@911day) July 17, 2022
Here is video of @MLBONFOX and @FoxSports superimposing MLB logos over the 9/11 Memorial.
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 17, 2022
There have to be firings over this. Lots of them.
What. Goddamned. Fox. Assholes. pic.twitter.com/LnQEaVuMYJ
Of all the NYC aerial shots Fox Sports could have used, they decided to superimpose their baseball logo over the 9/11 Memorial?
— Steve Scott (@SteveScottNEWS) July 17, 2022
Horrible. pic.twitter.com/aM8XtGpACU
I am calling for total graphic creation shutdown until we figure out what the hell is going on pic.twitter.com/nlICTJDFI2
— Kyle Koster (@KyleKoster) July 17, 2022
Fox Sports putting team logos in the reflecting pools at the 9/11 memorial. 🤦♂️
— Chris Sadeghi (@chrissadeghi) July 17, 2022
How dumb can you be? https://t.co/85DbO42byJ
People were so upset that Twitter actually hid some of the images of the graphic and labeled them "potentially sensitive content." It's hard to believe this one made it past the brainstorming phase, but here we are.