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Vanderbilt Football Kicks Off the First Day of Practice With an Awful Tweet

Context is everything. It's one thing to defiantly say "we don't need your permission" if you're a teenager looking to make a statement about your independence. It's another when it's coming from a football program that's only two years removed from a high profile sexual assault scandal. Vanderbilt fits into the latter category, and this is a bad tweet:

Phrasing, Vandy
Phrasing, Vandy
— VandyFootball (@VandyFootball) August 6, 2015

This is...unfortunate. With one graphic, Vanderbilt has fallen into the same trap that Bud Light did when they printed labels that advised drinkers to "remove the word 'no' from their vocabulary.