Nike Makes Jerseys For “Kentcuky”

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By FITSNews || We’ve raved previously about the University of Kentucky’s John Wall, who along with fellow superfroshes DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe has the No. 3 Wildcats on top of the SEC.

So … why wouldn’t Slam magazine get in on some of the Bluegrass love?  Well they are … in fact, the magazine did a photo shoot with Wall (et. al.) for one of its upcoming issues.

One little problem, though (and no, we’re not talking about South Carolina spoiling Kentucky’s season).

Take a closer look at Wall’s jersey …

john wall jersey closeup

K-E-N-T- … wait a minute … that’s not right …

Quoth Deadspin:

… to be fair, spelling your state correctly isn’t a graduation requirement at most SEC schools.

Oooooooooo!

That was “cold-blooded!”

Who knows … maybe Nike is using the same copy editor we are?

Oh well, one thing we know for certain … we don’t want to be the kid in the Vietnamese sweatshop who is ultimately going to be held responsible for this!

UPDATE: Just out of curiosity, do you pronounce that misspelling Kent”suck”y?

UPDATE II: Method to the misspelling? There’s a theory on that …

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Comments

  1. By Webster February 11, 2010 at 11:06 pm

    Kind of ironic to make a post knocking poor spelling with poor grammar. See: “Well the are..” above.

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  2. By fitsnews February 12, 2010 at 6:57 am

    Webster-

    It was kind of ironic. Then we fixed it.

    Zippity-do-da, zippity-A.

    -FITS

    Reply

  3. By Calhoun Fawls February 13, 2010 at 3:18 am

    KY is a sex lubricant, right?

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