You’ve heard by now that Nike changed the background of its promotional ad for the new WVU football “Battle Gear” uniform because of objections by mountaintop removal opponents.
The ad was an artist’s rendering of a player dressed in the coal-themed uniform in the foreground with something vaguely resembling a surface coal mine in the background, which several people took for a mountaintop removal mine.
Their complaint was with the background, not the uniform.
Full Article at: Charleston Daily Mail
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Anyone who loves West Virginia and WVU should object to any rendering that associates either with any form of surface mining. Surface mining sells our states natural beauty for a few dollars that will be soon spent.
Amen Hoppy!! Unbelievable.