An outcry on social media from people offended by the promotion followed. DraftKings later took it down and apologized.
to entice people to bet on baseball and football games on the anniversary of the tragedy that killed nearly 3,000 people.
After an outcry on social media from people offended by the promotion titled “Never Forget,” DraftKings took it down and apologized. Bret Eagleson, whose father, Bruce, was killed in the World Trade Center, runs a families and first responders organization called 9/11 Justice. He decried the DraftKings offer as “tone-deaf.”
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