Brian Rowe tells me that his son, the one holding the “Dabo wears thongs” sign at the Florida State GameDay stop, was approached Saturday by ESPN security and told to hand over his sign after it was declared not fit for TV.
@BRoweFSU tells BC: “They didn’t give reason besides ‘can’t show that on TV’ & made him give it to them. Certainly was tame compared to others.”
Here’s a gallery of the signs that appeared on GameDay. Is “Dabo wears thongs” worse than “Dabo has hemorrhoids?” Or what about “Dabo likes vanilla Frostys?”
The key to making a fun sign that gets by the ESPN sign police seems to be that you need to go through Urban Dictionary and find sexual references that seem tame to the common guy working for ESPN, but your college bros will understand. Any reference to underwear won’t be allowed, so maybe you try using blumpkin next time.
When you enter the fenced in area with your blumpkin sign the security guard might ask what “Gary Pinkel likes blumpkins” means. Tell him it’s a reference to local pastries. I guarantee that sign will get through. Trust me. Just tell your friends to play it cool.
@bustedcoverage According to my son, it was a security guy who has traveled with the gameday crew the past 2 years they’ve been here.
— Brian Rowe (@BRoweFSU) September 25, 2014
