No more “AR 15” for Anthony Richardson?

I was kind of expecting him to do this. Many of the Twitter comments are embarrassing, chastising him for his decision. I thought Gator Nation was better than that, but it appears we are not.

 

Exactly what I would expect.

 

Never read the comments. On anything.

 

lots of necks in FL

 

And then people act dumbfounded when some people criticize gun nut culture.

They can't even respect a college kid who represents their school for having his own convictions on the subject.

 

Wow. I am so impressed with this young man. I mean having the awareness to even consider something like this let alone go through with it.

It was part of his brand. That is epic.

There is so much to unpack here.

Kudos to that young man. Proud.

 

I bet you are a real hoot. Interesting post.

 

I'll stop calling him AR-15 if that is what he wants.

That doesn't mean anyone is going to tell me not to call a Cocktail Party a Cocktail Party.

 

I was never happy with the optics of it to begin with. Sometimes the popular/cool thing to do is not the right thing to do. Leaders lead, they don't follow. Glad to see him step up and be a leader. It is the most impressive thing I have seen from him to date.

 

I couldn't agree more.

 

Gonna refer to him Anthony Richardson, Heisman Candidate.

 

It's his initials and his number... making too much out of it.

 

You were surprised? I'm not. There's a certain contingent of Gator fans who I expect this type of scumbag behavior from, they're the same hate-filled losers who were making nasty comments under some Gator athletes Juneteeth posts a few weeks ago. Anyway, kudos to Anthony for standing up for something believes in.

 

Unless it is a Kitchen Nightmare video; sometimes you just have to know if they made it, after Gordon left.

 

Maybe, but he made a sacrificial decision and a young man deserves credit for being willing to do that.

 

It was a little more than that. His logo (at least on tshirts I saw) was looking through the crosshairs of a rifle scope.

 

Maybe. Or his agents/advistors finally pulled him aside and said "hey, this cr@p is not coming off as cool, but tone deaf in today's environment and likely to draw unwanted attention from people". NFL teams do not want "unwanted attention". So, if he has dreams of getting drafted and playing in the NFL, this is more likely to be the adults and him agreeing to say "hey, let's get some distance from this now and don't given an NFL team an excuse to passing you up in the draft later".

 

Also numbers are in his control, his initials are not.

I thought once the (too obvious) nickname started, that it would be wise to change numbers to get away from it 100%.

 

An NFL team (using the term loosely for the Browns ) just gave the farm to a guy with 24 sexual assault accusations. No one was passing on AR over a nickname that happened to be his actual initials and number.