We heard the LA Galaxy had a new sponsorship deal with someone! Hope it's a really cool company that in no way marginalizes certain groups of people, especially should one of those people play for the Galaxy!
Free !
Los Angeles area @ChickfilA restaurants named official partner of the #LAGalaxy: https://t.co/JAiZYoGRIh pic.twitter.com/oz03nVe1Qd— LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) March 7, 2016
Oh no.
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In case you don't know how inappropriate this is, here's an explainer. Chich-Fil-A is a hugely Southern Baptist company. This is fine. What's not fine is they have a section of their Wikipedia page titles "Same Sex Marriage Controversy."
The LA Galaxy, in case you didn't know, employ the talents of one Robbie Rogers, who is an excellent fullback and also openly gay. You can see where this is going.
Fortunately, Rogers was cool about it and posted this message on his Facebook:
Robbie Rogers posts classy message on Facebook re: Chick-Fil-A & #LAGalaxy sponsorship deal https://t.co/xtONBo49MX pic.twitter.com/8OAE0dJnR5
— World Soccer Talk (@worldsoccertalk) March 8, 2016
So, any Galaxy employees reading this: a little foresight next time would be nice. Thanks.
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