walking sports encyclopedia, to quote a friend of his, who absolutely loved his job. adam ward, walking sports encyclopedia. i would like to have been able to talk sports with him more, but i wasn t in his league. it kills me to know the college football season is about to start and here he is gone. adam had so much fun playing on the company s softball team, that they let me play on, too. adam was a lot better than i was. that s one of the reason we won the city championship. going to virginia tech or pursuing this career in sports broadcasting, he had the goals and achieved them with relent his work effort, and a lot of effusive joy. we know we saw that entire newsroom standing strong behind the general manager of the station and the news director wearing those ribbons, so when you see them, it s the teal, which is alison s favorite color and the maroon which stantsds
her fiancee was shot and killed on a show that she produced on live television. i can t even imagine that. i can t imagine that. and knowing that i know we ve heard from alison parker s father and he has said his soul is crushed. he spoke with his daughter each and every day and, you know, respecting the wishes of adam s family and of the fiancee, wanting their privacy and understandably so. and i think just to reiterate your point, these ribbons, teal was alison s favorite color, marine was adam s favorite color from his beloved ala mater virginia tech. it s the little things, what this news director was saying, adam s car is still sitting in the parking lot with clothes inside. yeah. and we heard this story, the anecdote with the meteorologist, he saw a candy wrapper that adam ward ate often and lost it there. these will be very difficult and sensitive moments but we all have to respect that this news
the pins. yes. we re wearing ribbons today and we ll continue to wear those as long as we can. they represent adam and alison. the maroon represents virginia tech and adam s love for virginia tech and the teal was just alison s favorite color. so one of our reporters put this together for us and we appreciate her efforts and it really helps solidify our feelings about them and show everyone about how we feel. thank you. a lot of questions have been asked about the employment situation of vester flanagan, also known as bryce williams. i want to put it together in a statement and we ll distribute copies of the statement and i want to thank everyone for coming out and joining us for this because we re all in this together. i m going to read the statement. be glad to take questions.