SLATE: The greatest play fake ever

Trevor Lawrence, warrior. Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images At 6:11pm CT on the night of Sunday, August 9, 2020, Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence tweeted a call for the powers that be in college football to let the season progress, launching the #WeWantToPlay hashtag. That tweet resulted in a massive outpouring of “Yeah, buddy!” responses from a phalanx of sports commentators who generally have three things in common: a skepticism over the entire COVID pandemic, an overwhelming sense of entitlement to the free labor of college football players, and an annoying penchant for castigating fellow journalists and commentators who express doubt about the season by accusing them of “rooting for the virus”. Chief among them: a certain obnoxious jerk whose name we don’t mention around here, but it rhymes with Tray Clavis.

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