NFL reporter and commentator Albert Breer, currently of Sports Illustrated‘s The MMQB, Comcast Sports Network New England and Boston radio station 98.5 The Sports Hub, has plenty of hot takes on the news that Harvard shut down its men’s soccer team for the season, following an investigation that revealed the team’s long-running, widespread practice of creating documents crudely and explicitly discussing female players’ looks and presumed sexual behavior and also following those players’ letter about how this affected them. Breer decided to portray this as an “inside joke”:
Did they really cancel Harvard's soccer season over an inside joke?
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) November 4, 2016
He then took a lot of flak for this:
Or the continued objectification of women, which for some reason is still considered acceptable. https://t.co/X21dHYmGRt
— Trenni Kusnierek (@trenni) November 4, 2016
that a dude could read what those women wrote and come away with this response is so disheartening, it's hard to adequately explain it https://t.co/Pw3TbbO55B
— Jessica Luther (@scATX) November 4, 2016
And Breer then doubled down:
@kardashian04 it's college kids acting like jackasses. just feels to me like throwing someone in jail for parking in the fire lane.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) November 4, 2016
@trenni Everyone objectifies everyone, college kids are jackasses, and this is an example of a parking ticket turning into a jail sentence.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) November 4, 2016
@AlbertBreer @trenni so you have no problem with this kind of behavior? Says a lot about yourself if you think this is no big deal.
— shawn lemmer (@shawn55555) November 4, 2016
Never said that. Just that I thought the punishment was reactionary to public sentiment and didn't fit the crime. https://t.co/VTcJ55mff5
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) November 4, 2016
Unlike what happened in August, Breer probably can’t blame this on hackers.
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