BeachBumDeac
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I like them, as long as they are for wounded warriors, I don't care what they look like, I like them.
Yeah I mean, Wounded Warrior is a fantastic cause, and I'm glad it has gotten a ton of attention, but I guess I'm not sure I like conflating it with a football game. There's already enough mixing of metaphors with this lexicon of football as a battle, the gridiron, etc. This seems like a really extreme execution of a really good idea.
I guess I'm looking at it more at a tribute kind of thing to wounded warriors. To make any kind of comparasion to football being like war or players being like soldiers is silly and wrong. I love the end of the movie "Junction Boys." One of the player's gets heat exhaustion really bad and gets removed from the team because he won't be able to practice for a long time and Bear Bryant is telling his father he's sorry but these players have to go to war each Saturday and those have to be the rules. The father, who has a lame arm from having served in WWI I think, looks at Bear Bryant and says, "I've seen war, football is just a game."
Not a big fan of the splattered blood theme
It is apparently not supposed to be blood, but a tearing effect. They did it on the blue side too.
I still think it looks like blood, but I don't think they intended it to.
Since the uniforms are in support of wounded warriors, I would think almost anybody would think that is supposed to be splattered blood.
I don't think it "supposed to" (they even released a statement explaining the blue vs. the red.) I think they are idiots for not realizing what it looks like, but I don't think the intention was there. Which is, in my opinion, actually worse. How do you not look at that and realize what it looks like?