The Final Kill Shot For Nike: An Alabama Pastor Cut Up Some Nike Gear During His Sermon

Fox News – An Alabama pastor on Sunday used a pair of scissors during a sermon to destroy Nike items after learning the apparel company endorsed Colin Kaepernick.

Rev. Mack Morris, of the Woodridge Baptist Church in Mobile, held a Nike headband and wristband before cutting them up in an act of protest, AL.com reported.

This whole Nike/Kaepernick saga is turning into such a shit storm of hilarious takes and even crazier actions, all you can really do is laugh at this point. First we had all the idiots on Twitter taking videos of themselves burning Nike products that they’d already paid for. That’ll show ‘em. We had guys cutting the Nike swoosh off their socks so people didn’t mistake them for someone with a brain.

Next, the mayor of Kenner, Louisiana announced he’s banning Nike products from sports and recreation facilities in his city, and banning city employees from purchasing Nike products as well.

At least that one makes a tiny bit of sense because, you know, sports.

None of those come anywhere close to topping the move by Rev. Mack Morris of the Woodbridge Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama. Using your Sunday sermon to make a statement about an athletic wear company, simply because you’re triggered by them putting Colin Kaepernick’s face on a new ad campaign, is so insanely hilarious it feels more like a Saturday Night Live sketch than something that actually happened in real life.

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My favorite part about this whole story is how Morris tried to make it seem like the headband and wristband he cut up are things he actually was using in his daily life prior to Nike choosing to make someone as villainous as Kaepernick the face of the brand.

“I ain’t using that no more,” Morris said in his weekly sermon, titled “The Storms of Life.” “He’s inked a contract with Nike. No one knows or is telling how many multi-million dollars that is going to be simply because he won’t stand when the national anthem is sung.”

Oh really, Rev. Mack Morris? You ain’t using that no more? How are you gonna keep the sweat off your eyes while you’re locked into a game of 21 at the local recreation center against you’re brother-in-law and Rev. Garry Harred?

You think Colin Kaepernick knows about sacrifice? Tell that to Rev. Mack Morris the next time he crosses up an overweight middle-aged white guy in the gym and hits a pull up jumper with so much sweat in his eyes he can barely see the rim. The dude’s got Jesus in one ear keeping him humble, and God in the other telling him to get the shot up before Earl from the diner on Main st. closes out and hits him with the Dikembe Mutumbo finger wave because his vision is so blurry from sweat he can’t see 3 feet in front of him. No wonder the congregation gave him a standing ovation when the sermon was over.

Here’s to the real heroes like Rev. Mack Morris out there. Don’t let anyone tell you you’re wrong just because a little logic is involved. Believe what you want to believe. Sometimes we all have to make sacrifices, even if it means losing your ability to thread the needle with a bounce pass in the lane because you can’t tell the difference between shirts and skins. Just do it.