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No respect.

Via Newsbusters:

Timothy Burke at the sports blog Deadspin reports “A T-shirt that appropriates the imagery of raising the flag on Iwo Jima has apparel maker Under Armour under attack. Hundreds of people outraged by the shirt have been flooding Under Armour’s Facebook page today with complaints.”

The Baltimore-based sports apparel company calls the shirt “Band of Ballers.” (The TV series Band of Brothers was based on World War II in Europe, not in Asia.) They could have gotten sillier and called it “Iwo Gymma.”

Tweets to Under Armour include messages like “Gotta say the band of ballers shirt should not be sold.Disrespectful to all military past present and future.” And: “This honestly sickens me. ‘Band of Ballers’? I will never buy Under Armour again and that is a promise. Have respect.”

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