Detroit station airs A-Rod’s photo in Mandela L3

We all knew Nelson Mandela was a lot of things — a nobel laureate, statesman and first black president of South Africa to name just a few — but apparently one station knew something the rest of the world didn’t — he also moonlighted as Alex Rodriguez on the Yankees.

Well, not really, of course, but that’s what a lower third banner at WDIV-TV in Detroit would have you believe.

During its coverage of Mandela’s death, the Post-Newsweek station in the market, aired a lower third that declared “Remembering Nelson Mandela” with a photo of Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez (“A-Rod”) in the lower left corner.

Let’s go to the tape:

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