It looks like school mascots are not the only things under attack by progressive activists.

Point Loma Nazarene University student Jacob Roth comes to the defense of another school’s football uniforms.

The Northwestern University Wildcats will take on University of Michigan’s Wolverines this afternoon in a football game that’s largely a pride match between two promising teams that have struggled for wins this season. Yet the hype that’s foreshadowed this game has nothing to do with the gridiron.

Northwestern has been vilified and harassed all over the World Wide Web this week because of the patriotic “Wounded Warrior” uniforms its players will wear today.

It’s hard to imagine any effort that aims to raise money for wounded veterans being thrown under the bus, but that’s exactly what’s happened, as critics have described the uniforms as blood-splattered and inappropriate. If you take a minute to examine what exactly the keyboard warriors are complaining about, it’s easy to see that their gripes are absurd.

The uniforms feature stars and stripes adorning the helmet, shoulders, gloves, pants, socks and cleats. Instead of the players’ names on the back, the jerseys display words like “duty” “honor” and “courage.”

After the game, the company Under Armour, which designed and produced the uniforms, will auction off the jerseys, with 100 percent of the proceeds going directly to the Wounded Warrior Project. Additionally, Northwestern is selling replica jerseys online, and 10 percent of those profits will help wounded veterans.

But detractors castigated both Northwestern and Under Armour over the uniforms, in large part because some people called out the splotchy red stripes embedded in white parts of the uniforms as blood. Deadspin called it “gore porn,” for example.

For one, the uniforms also include splotchy blue stripes – is that blood, too? What’s more, Northwestern and Under Armour have flat denied it’s blood.

…Still others have scoffed at the mere 10 percent being donated from the replica jersey sales. Why not just scrap the cost of making them and donate all that money straight to the Wounded Warrior Project, critics say, adding isn’t this all just some big publicity stunt for Under Armour and Northwestern?

In some ways, it is. And yes, both parties could just as easily send a check to the nonprofit. But the whole point of supporting a cause like the Wounded Warrior Project is to get others involved. If they simply mailed a check, how would that rally others to contribute?