The world is safer and greener thanks to all those enviromorons who pressured Nike to change an ad for a football uniform.
The uniform honors the 29 men who died in an April 5 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
The left objected to there being a strip mine in the ad that shows the uniform.
Nike replaced the strip mine with a stadium.
OK.
Fine.
But why a strip mine or a stadium?
Why not an actual coal mine?
After all, they died in one.
WVU made a mistake signing up with Nike because this looks more like an exploitation than a tribute. As for the left's objections, it is a reminder of Lefty Icon Josef Stalin's observation that one man's death is a tragedy, the death of thousands is a statistic.
The Associated Press report:
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Nike has replaced the image of a strip mine with that of a football stadium in ads promoting a new West Virginia University football uniform.
Nike decided Thursday to revise the ad after environmentalists complained about the depiction of a mountaintop removal mine behind the image of a uniform intended to honor 29 men killed in the Upper Big Branch mine blast.
That mine was an underground operation.
Activists said they didn't object to the actual uniform, but that the ad appeared to be a tacit endorsement of mountaintop removal by both Nike and the university.
Both insisted that wasn't their intention.
Nike says it designed the black and white uniforms as a tribute to the state's coal mining heritage.
The uniforms will be worn for a single game this year, the Backyard Brawl at Pittsburgh Nov. 26.
