Looks like Nike did get a backlash from their Ad, which shows a BBall player with his *cough cough* junk in another player's face and the saying "That Ain't Right".The newspaper said controversy arose last week over some advertisements for Nike's new Hyperdunk basketball shoes. The ads were dubbed homophobic by bloggers and critics, the paper said.
Concerns were first raised by the weblog, www.gawker.com, the Oregonian said. The blog post can be seen here sketball.
Under a post titled "Does Nike Hate Gays? Or Do Gays Hate Basketball?" the blog said the ads showed a basketball player's face in the groin area of another player seemingly dunking a ball. Gawker also carried a picture of the ad on the blog.
The picture was accompanied by slogans like "This ain't right" and the blog said the ads appeared offensive to African-Americans too. The two players featured in the picture looked African-American.
"Nike should pull the ads. Or rework them to be friendlier to gay basketball fans, at least," the blog said in its post. [SOURCE]
Ooopsies. I guess I didn't help with my blog too. Well, I dunno if they were really homophobic but in a way they kinda do look like it. Hard to say!
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