Football fans rip Nebraska after new cleats unveiled
The Nebraska Cornhuskers revealed new football cleats from Adidas on Tuesday, and they’re probably not what you’d expect from the folks in Lincoln.
The shoes are green with gold stripes and covered with money emojis.
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@HuskerFBNation x @adidasFballUS pic.twitter.com/RHUEiu6Auv
— Nebraska Huskers (@Huskers) May 8, 2018
The Huskers apparently didn’t consider the implications of depicting flying dollars on the cleats of athletes who are supposed to be unpaid.
Or take into account the fact that Adidas is at the center of an FBI investigation into widespread corruption in college basketball.
Many observers brought those issues to Nebraska’s attention on Twitter.
Oh dope, how much do the players make again?
— Josh Roth (@joshgroth) May 9, 2018
Hmmmmm, money and Adidas. Soon football will go down like basketball!!!
— Joe DiBlasi (@diblasi_joe) May 9, 2018
— Eric Williams (@destronights86) May 8, 2018
Kind of an odd choice for adidas to be making shoes for college kids with flying stacks of cash on them, no? https://t.co/ajpa8CtDC2
— Dan Murphy (@DanMurphyESPN) May 8, 2018
Bad taste on Adidas part. In deep with the FBI over paying kids $$ to sign with schools and this is what they do?? Shoes with $$ on them?
— Charles Hajduk (@MyHajduk) May 8, 2018
Others don’t like the message being sent to young people.
https://twitter.com/HuskerNSAV/status/993954918573723648
Not a fan. Definitely not a good message.
— Scott Romans (@Scott_Romans) May 9, 2018
Some Big Red fans were most bothered by the shoes’ color or aesthetics.
Red shoes. Flying ears of corn. Your welcome.
— Arick Johanson (@ArickTheRed) May 8, 2018
No thanks!! Make them red then we can talk.
— David Shaw (@Dshaw8324) May 8, 2018
Ughly!!! Make them red!!!
— Jan Krakow (@Nebraskababe72) May 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/DanMan40638665/status/993955733950492672
https://twitter.com/TDOWNINGS/status/993981120634146816
Nebraska has had a relationship with Adidas since 1995, and last year it signed an 11-year, $128 million deal to stay with the apparel maker.
The Huskers are hoping new coach Scott Frost will restore the program to the high levels it reached under Hall of Famer Tom Osborne, who won three national championships in the 1990s. Since then, Nebraska has fallen into irrelevance, posting just one 10-win season since 2010 and finishing 4-8 last year.
Frost, who was the Huskers’ quarterback for a portion of those dynasty years, returned to his alma mater from the University of Central Florida, where he coached the Knights to a 12-0 record last year.
If he signed off on the dollar-sign cleats, it could be a sign that he’s going to bring a new attitude to the tradition-rich program — one that not all fans appreciate.
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