On Tuesday, one Robert Lee was rebuffed for the activities of another. At the point when ESPN chose to evacuate the games telecaster Robert Lee from covering the principal University of Virginia football session of the season, it was, per the system's own announcement "essentially as a result of the happenstance of his name." UVA, and its home of Charlottesville, have been involved in turmoil over the expulsion of a statue of Robert E. Lee, and the system thought it best to not summon the conspicuous correlations.
As indicated by an announcement from an ESPN official shared by the writer Yashar Ali, the move was made to shield Lee from potential "images and jokes" and Lee himself was associated with the choice.
In any case, the greater part of this happened in light of the fact that, apparently, Lee's folks loved the sound of the name Robert.
Both Robert and Lee are greatly regular names. As per the site HowManyofMe.com, which looks through a database of U.S. Statistics information, there are 5,128,282 Roberts in the United States, 731,046 individuals with the last name Lee, and an astounding 11,518 Robert Lees.
