By now I’ve lost count of all the letters Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren has received. In fact, he and Santa Claus might be waging a U.S. Postal Service arms race by the end of the year.
There have been parent letters, open letters, virtual letters, and more that we’ll likely never know about. And now, we’ve got one more very important one to add to that list.
According to several reports, state political leaders from around the great Midwest have sent a letter to the commish asking him and the Big Ten to reconsider their decision to postpone fall sports, including college football.
Thanks to Lee Chatfield, speaker of the Michigan House, we get a peek at the full context of the letter below in a tweet he shared on Tuesday morning. It is signed by state leaders from Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Ohio.
We have the full context of the letter on the next page in the event you can’t get into the Twitter link below.
In it, the state leaders applaud the testing and monitoring in place in the Big Ten and ask that their student-athletes not suffer while many others across the country are playing.
The B1G can play sports safely. And the B1G should play sports safely. They should reverse the decision. Here’s a letter that Midwest legislative leaders sent to Commissioner Warren today urging the reconsideration of the decision to cancel fall sports. Let’s go! #LetTheB1GPlay pic.twitter.com/Q89JaZwLQ6
— Lee Chatfield (@LeeChatfield) September 8, 2020
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