It's been a fair bit of time since Lebron James decided to spurn Ohio for the beaches of Miami, Florida.
So you would assume by now that people in Ohio have gotten over it and moved on with their daily lives. Well, I guess you can say that's not the case when a marketing company in Akron, Ohio decided to put up an anti-Lebron billboard.
We get more from NewsNet 5:
A billboard says "Welcome Home LeBron," but there is a big red 'X' over home. The second line poses a question: "How does it feel to be a sidekick?," a reference to James' decision to join Dwayne Wade on the Miami Heat. Sidekick is underlined in red. The message then ends with "Go Cleveland!" in gold letters.Geez, maybe that $3,000 dollars could have been spent on something else besides an anti-Lebron billboard.
The Omada Group, a marketing company in Akron, paid $3,000 for the billboard, which is on Route 18 eastbound between I-71 and I-77, about two miles from James' estate in Bath. The company paid about $3,000 for the billboard, which will be up for about a month.
Matthew Palumbo, one of the principals at the Omada Group, said he hopes the billboard sparks a grassroots campaign to let James know exactly where he stands in his home state since his decision to leave.
(Courtesy of Out of Bounds)