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Well that's pretty shitty
Especially given the reasons in the article
It sucks but given the reasons they listed it makes sense. There's no mechanism to have someone expelled from the league for being a bigot, and it became a form of protest against LGBT rights and acceptance to refuse to wear the jersey. It sadly winds up undermining the entire purpose of those events.