Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman trophy, died of leukemia in 1963. Nike's swoosh was introduced into the zeitgeist in 1971. So it wouldn't make any sense that a statue honoring the trail-blazing running back would feature him wearing Nike cleats, right?Oops.
This isn't the first statue error this year, and it's not even the first problem with a statue honoring an athlete named Ernie. When the Cubs unveiled their Ernie Banks tribute this spring, there was a pretty major grammatical error on it.
Whomever is in charge of the Ernie Els statue better not screw it up.
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