An effort is underway in the Tampa Bay area to move a Confederate monument in downtown Tampa and the three major professional sports teams from the area have bound together to issue a joint statement.
The following is from the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League and Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League.
The monument in question is the Memoria In Aeterna monument from an old courthouse. Originally, the monument was set to be moved to a cemetery, but the Hillsborough County Commission amended a vote to require $140,000 in private money in order to move the monument.