Well this is going to be a controversial moment the NFL isn't going to want.
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On Sunday ahead of Super Bowl LII, the NFL aired a tribute video package to former players that had passed away over the past year. While that concept is not at all controversial, it became so when people in U.S. Bank Stadium noticed that the tribute included disgraced former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez.
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NFL honors the deceased up on the video board, including one Aaron Hernandez.
— Tyler Dunne (@TyDunne) February 4, 2018
The NFL did place Aaron Hernandez in the NFL Memorium.
— Dan Beyer (@danbeyeronfox) February 4, 2018
NFL showing a video tribute on scoreboard to NFL players who died in last year. They included Aaron Hernandez.
— Brian Costello (@BrianCoz) February 4, 2018
According to Mike Tanier of Bleacher Report, Hernandez's inclusion was brief and featured with other players on the video board.
To clarify, the Aaron Hernandez moment during the rollcall of players who passed away in 2017 was on a slide with a half-dozen relative unknowns which flashed almost too fast to read.
— Mike Tanier (@MikeTanier) February 4, 2018
Hernandez committed suicide just a week after he had been found not guilty of the murders of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. Hernandez was still serving a life sentence for the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd, a conviction that was later abated due to the laws in Massachusetts.
Hernandez was drafted in 2010 by the New England Patriots after a standout career as a tight end at the University of Florida. His NFL career came to a stunning end in June of 2013 when he was arrested for the murder of Lloyd after a short investigation.
