The National Football League wanted to honor a retired U.S. Navy officer with a special award at Sunday’s New Orleans Saints game — but the veteran shot them down hard.
Cmdr. John Wells, who was set to receive the Peoples Health Champion Award, responded to the offer in a letter to executives in the Saints organization and Peoples Health. The award is given to community members who have achieved “significant accomplishments.”
However, Wells wanted nothing to do with it.
“I am unable, in good conscience, to enter an NFL stadium while this discourtesy prevails,” Wells wrote, according to WDSU-TV.
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