David Arrington: He always attended the home games, dating to Brian Cotton’s playing days (in the late 1980s).

“My dad went to all the Bradford football home games until he got too sick with cancer,” Arrington said. “I coached for Bradford for two years. My dad really enjoyed that. I resigned because my dad had stage four cancer. We just didn’t publicize it. He did not want me to leave Bradford, but I had to take him to chemotherapy treatments in Chicago. When he got too sick to go to the games in person, he listened to them on the radio.”

Added Arrington Friday: “My son, Isaiah, his grandson, plays on that football team. Nobody even offered him a congratulations (regarding the naming). Now, in the back of his head, he has to wonder, ‘What’s wrong with my grandfather?’ What am I supposed to tell him?”

Declared a racial issueLifelong Kenosha resident Tim Thompkins, who is black, scoffed at the outcry from critics of the board’s decision, referring to them as “angry white people” and saying they are acting out of racism toward Olen Arrington Jr.’s name being chosen over Mary D. Bradford’s.

A former equal opportunity officer for the city of Kenosha, Thompkins now fills a similar role in the city of Racine.