I’m not into sportsball, or the Emmys for that matter, so this has me very confused. Isn’t this a scandal for the Emmys as much as it is for ESPN? If you’re giving awards to people that don’t even exist, you clearly aren’t doing any due diligence to see if they deserve the award. And did the people getting these reengraved awards know that they didn’t actually win? They weren’t suspicious that there wasn’t some official announcement from the Emmys? The Emmys wasn’t weirded out by people that didn’t win announcing that they did and showing off their trophy? How is any of this a thing?
Looks like they’re just returning trophies not awards, so I’m guessing anytime a show wins an award everyone who happens to be on the show’s crew at that time gets a trophy for it, and since there’s a bit of turnover on those crews they probably just get a list of names from the studio and send out as many trophies as they get told they need, so it would probably be pretty easy to slip in a fake name or three and get some unique birthday gifts for people