Fox Sports used the Twin Towers Memorial in New York to promote its "Baseball Night in America" telecast of the Red Sox-Yankees game at Yankee Stadium on Saturday night.
The network superimposed Red Sox, Yankees and program logos on top of an overhead shot of Ground Zero, placing the graphics centrally on the reflecting pools built to honor the victims of 9/11.
The move was immediately panned on social media, with many saying the graphic was among the most distasteful things they had ever seen on television.
Here's the graphic:
Can someone tell @FOXSports never to do this again? Beyond offensive. pic.twitter.com/Jf7D8DXLKf
— Carol Eggers (@ceggersmidwest) July 17, 2022
Sports broadcasts often will overlay images of players or teams on city landmarks before big games. Some sites are just off limits, though.
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The National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center site was erected 10 years after the September 11 attacks which left 2,977 people dead. Written on the walls surrounding the reflecting pool are the names of those who perished in the attack, as well as those who died in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
As of this article's writing, the network has not released a statement regarding the incident.
