The University of Florida football team has made some questionable decisions in the past few years. From missing out on a bowl game last season to forgetting how playing on offense works, even blocking a teammate, the on-field results have not been worthy of much acclaim.
Maybe to promote the team and instill a little more nostalgia for the temporarily mediocre football program, calendars are released with stars of yesteryear. Unfortunately, a licensed Florida Gators calendar included a month – July, to be exact – honoring Aaron Hernandez, former national championship winning tight end and alleged multiple murderer.
@CutlerRidgeLAZ Check out this huge whoops from the UF marketing department: pic.twitter.com/iveDlTT3ud
— Jimi Kunkel (@JimiKunkel) June 30, 2014
While this calendar did not come directly from the University of Florida communications department, it seems to be a licensed product, as stated by the official UF football Twitter account.
@NAWTADIGM @ourtwobits @uflorida approval process for those things is over a year out, so that would have been approved in spring of 2013
— Florida Gators Football (@GatorsFB) June 30, 2014
@NAWTADIGM @ourtwobits @uflorida and it's not from our marketing department, would be a licensed product not something we distributed
— Florida Gators Football (@GatorsFB) June 30, 2014
Perhaps the decision to put him on the calendar was made months in advance, or the distributors still consider him a currently innocent former football player. Either way, Mr. July shouldn’t be making any more calendar appearances after his trial.
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