ESPN is not the network that the Rasmussens started...ESPN is garbage now...
Each sport already has its honors. Even if this was done right, it would just be the piling on of honors for those who had already received a bunch of honors.
Sort of like when they give a money prize to someone in a sport for winning the most money that year.
This is just another opportunity for ESPN to be as pretentious as Jim McCay was in the 70's and Costas and Jim Gray are trying to be now.
Bruce is awarded for getting a haircut and putting on a dress. Does that happen with everyone?
This sort of thing can happen because otherwise rational and moral people surrendered the right to outrage on these sorts of issues a long time ago. Why? I think it is because of the clever marketing of the left, labeling those who disagree as haters and bigots. What that did was put people on the defense. So a kind of hardwired psychology kicks in. People tend to 1) go on the defensive, or 2) try to convince everyone that some may hate but THEY are not haters and, 3) stake out an early compromise position they can live with that will also silence the opposition (something that wrongly assumes the opposition can be reasoned with).
People are generally weak and trusting. Few saw the calculating scheming behind the false charges. So they surrendered the position of outrage. It has become a virtue to not react, no matter how ludicrous the behavior. People have become afraid to react. Until that reverses and people stand up for truth again — STRONGLY and where appropriate with outrage, this will just get worse.
Notice that the left, after the immoral win at Supreme Court, is just mutating the battle into more attacks. They NEVER surrendered the right to display outrage. I heart a local mayor today rant on and on about how bigoted Christians are who oppose homo marriage. He was outraged. He is crazy, but his outrage still had an effect. No one calls the left on this hypocrisy. They can hate. They can yell. They can be outraged. They can speak (increasingly we cannot). So they have the foolishness they are promoting and we have the rational truth, but it is THEY who get the debate position of POWER. Therefore they win.
It’s three consecutive years of sexual “diversity” (so far):
2013 Robin Roberts - “I am grateful for my entire family, my long time girlfriend, Amber, and friends . . .”
2014 Michael Sam - kissing another man on TV as he gets an NFL draft pick for being gay
2015 Bruce Jenner - dressing like a woman and taking estrogen
It isn’t courage. It is psychosis, and ESPN is simply enabling.