GEORGIA'S FLAG ON THEIR MINDS

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A controversial flag was contested at Super Bowl XXXIV, but the marketing effort making the challenge had more to do with civil rights than football.
The Coalition to Change the Flag, an Atlanta group seeking to do just that in Georgia, handed out posters created by copywriter Stephen Curry and freelance art director Lisa Eckert. Each showed a photo of the Georgia flag and incendiary copy, such as “Give hate a chance” and “We swill moonshine and marry our sisters.”

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