Steve Spurrier’s 2007 comments on Confederate flag worth revisiting
In 2006, South Carolina hosted Tennessee in a game that was visited by ESPN’s weekly pregame show, College GameDay Live. As is regularly the case, fans came to hold up posters and wave flags in the background of the GameDay set, but one flag drew the ire of South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier.
The Confederate flag.
“(It) was embarrassing to me and I know embarrassing to our state,” Spurrier would later be on record of saying. Despite being the visionary he can be, surely Spurrier had few expectations his quotes about the Confederate flag would be resurfacing in South Carolina roughly eight years later.
“I realize I’m not supposed to get in the political arena as a football coach, but if anybody were ever to ask me about that damn Confederate flag, I would say we need to get rid of it. I’ve been told not to talk about that. But if anyone were ever to ask me about it, I certainly wish we could get rid of it.”
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