The mom of Pat Tillman is sad with ESPN’s choice to present the award that bears her son’s identify to Prince Harry.
On the annual ESPYs, the Pat Tillman Award goes to “an individual with a robust connection to sports activities who has served others in a means that echoes the legacy of the previous NFL participant and U.S. Military Ranger, Pat Tillman.” ESPN determined this yr to present the award to Prince Harry for his service within the British Armed Forces and his work with the Invictus Video games for wounded troopers.
However Mary Tillman says Prince Harry’s work shouldn’t be match for an award that bears her son’s identify.
“I’m shocked as to why they would choose such a controversial and divisive particular person to obtain the award,” Mary Tillman instructed the Day by day Mail. “There are recipients that are far more fitting. There are people working within the veteran group which are doing large issues to help veterans. These people shouldn’t have the cash, assets, connections or privilege that Prince Harry has. I really feel that these sorts of people must be acknowledged.”
Final yr the Pat Tillman Award went to the coaching workers of the Buffalo Payments for saving the lifetime of Damar Hamlin.
Pat Tillman was a Cardinals security who give up the NFL to affix the Military lower than a yr after the 9/11 assaults. He died in Afghanistan in 2004 on the age of 27.
