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Columbus Crew players reply to mean tweets: From Skittles to unicorn 'poop'

Last week, the Columbus Crew revealed a new-look kit.

It was immediately widely, creatively, hilariously panned.

The Crew's response? It was creatively, hilariously delievered in a video featuring star players Michael Parkhurst, Wil Trapp, Justin Meram, Ethan Finlay and Gaston Sauro.

Take a look:

Twitter response ranged from horror to disgust to a minority voice of approval.

Crew owner Anthony Precourt is quoted in The Columbus Dispatch: "It's a one-year, bold adventure."

Portland Timbers owner Merritt Paulson weighed in, albeit without getting specific:

Here's to clubs having the guts to occasionally take risk w kit design.