40 Days For Life CEO Shawn Carney on 'College GameDay' religious sign ban: 'Nobody's for this'

For years, one of ESPN's most popular original programs has been "College GameDay." The show, which features some of college football's most prominent personalities traveling to different campuses across the country, has been a fan favorite for well over three decades now.

One of the best parts about "GameDay" is the students and fans piling into a small area on campus to express themselves and cheer on their team, and one way they've done that since the show started was to bring handmade signs.

They've featured everything from clever jokes to insults to opposing mascots, but last weekend in Tuscaloosa, the "GameDay" executives took a stand and introduced a "no religious signs" ban ahead of the Crimson Tide's top-ten showdown with Georgia.

This took pretty much everyone by surprise, including 40 Days For Life CEO Shawn Carney.

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"We've done this and it doesn't work," Carney said when discussing the ban.

"It's called 2020 and all of the companies that decided to go in that direction, it just backfired.

It's so stupid." Carney reveals that he's a huge fan of "College GameDay" and a diehard Texas A&M Aggie, and ESPN trying to muzzle what he calls their largest demographic of fans doesn't make sense in his eyes.

THE NFL IS AMERICA'S MOST GOD-CENTERED PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LEAGUE AND SUNDAY'S GAMES CONTINUED TO PROVE IT " Football is religion in the South ," he explains.

"You look at the SEC and you can throw in the Big 10, these are religious people that follow college football.

That's a huge market that is college football." And it isn't just the fans, either.

Coaches and players alike are very faith-based and give credit to Christianity with helping guide them through trying times.

It's a clear case of Disney and ESPN not understanding who they're appealing to with these decisions.

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