Fox Sports apologizes after putting Yankees, Red Sox logos over 9/11 memorial reflecting pools
Fox Sports apologized Sunday after the graphics department superimposed images of the Yankees and Red Sox logos over the 9/11 memorial reflecting pools during Saturday’s “Baseball Night in America” broadcast.
The images were shown in an aerial shot of the former site of the World Trade Center’s twin towers as the broadcast went into a commercial break during the sixth inning at Yankee Stadium.
“During last night’s telecast, we used poor judgment on the use of a graphic,” a Fox Sports spokesman said in a statement.
“We sincerely apologize and regret the decision.”
The names of the 2,753 victims of both deadly attacks on the World Trade Center are inscribed around the reflecting pools, which honor those killed in the 9/11 terror attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The pools are built in the footprint of the fallen North and South Towers.
The cringe-worthy move was roundly criticized on social media.
“There are ideas that are merely bad, ideas that are downright terrible, and then there is what the Fox Sports graphic department came up with for Red Sox-Yankees, superimposing team logos on the site of the former Twin Towers,” a Twitter user wrote.
“Can someone tell Fox Sports never to do this again? Beyond offensive,” another wrote.
The Yankees beat their Boston rivals 14-1.
