Hornets apologize after pretending to give child PS5 and taking it away off camera - Yahoo Sports

Certain headlines get really funny if you pretend sports don't exist.

Or, in my case for this particular situation, if you are a foreigner and are missing a lot of context for American Sports.

I swear The Boys gets more and more blatant with how evil Corporate America is, but cmon, this episode is just completely ridiculous. Not even Homelander would be that ev....

Wait this happened in a REAL Sportsball game? This is not a bit? sugh

I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed

This means there was at least one meeting where this plan was discussed and approved by multiple staffers who have jobs and salaries and manage to find their way to work and back home at night.

The skit that "missed the mark" . . .

Quit sucking up to corporate America, yahoo sports writer. The Hornets farked up a simple PR event in every way it was possible TO fark up. They baited and switched a PS5 with a t-shirt and thought no one would find out about it.

Jfc... How much of a psychopathic piece of shit do you have to be, to hurt a kid's feelings like that?! I fucking hate people.

I feel like this is so boneheaded that it has to be the case where the staff member in charge of this giveaway just wanted to keep the PS5 themselves and thought the kids wouldn't complain about the ol' switcheroo! This just even sounds like something Michael Scott would have done in The Office.

It'd be nice if people stopped acting like fucking psychos.

One of the comments about why

What fucking cheapskates.

Do they make their players turn out their pockets after each game in case they picked up some loose change off the ground too? Lol

LOL. Cheap bastards. I mean, PS5 is an expensive gift, but not for such an occasion, no?

I might suggest that the kid got a nicer present in the form of a reason to file suit against the team for the embarrassment and emotional distress. Using the kid for a BS publicity stunt is not acceptable.

That's called theft. Legally a gift is irrevocable once it's given.

I guess I'll continue not watching basketball or football or whatever

I bet the price of that console was going to break their bank.

I mean I would get it if they had an empty box out on the court for the show, and then having to take away the empty show box... But they gave the kid a jersey instead? Wtf?

See this is why everyone hates Hornets, first the bullshit with the not making any honey and then this shit. They're so aggressive.

Reminds me of the time some asshole tried to switch some kid who was meant to walk out on the field with Zlatan with his own and got caught Link: https://youtu.be/NFYN3bY0kc8

No wonder they were just eradicated from North america

The only conceivable explanation is that the person who planned this sees audience members as less than human.

Goddamn hornets, this is why everyone prefers bees

That's fucked up.

That sounds about right, I've never gotten anything nice from a hornet. The one time I did get something from a hornet, it was a painful disappointment.

Stingy.

wait what? did they go back to the store and ask for a refund on the PS5, lol.... someone was like "that is fine we will just apologize and save a couple hundred bucks!"

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That one was not on the bingo board.

Psych!

they apologized or gave it back. this apology was planned.

nice troll.