welcome back. nike is pulling t-shirts with the words boston massacre from its outlet stores. shirts have been on sale for years. nothing to do with the bombing. nike moving to stop the sales. allisison kosik is following th tory. reporter: this is the rivalry that everybody knows about, it s been going on for almost a century. these shirts are referring to september 1978 when yankees swept a four-game series from the red sox at fenway but the yankees winning four games by a lot that put the yankees in a tie for first with the red sox. yankees won the world series. that was dubbed the boston massacre a reference to the original boston massacre in 1770. i gave you that background because that s where the shirts originated from. but now they re being seen at inappropriate, insensitive, because the t-shirts have blood spatters over the word boston. we did speak with nike yesterday, and here what happens they told us. this is an older item in light
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