Posted on 09/03/2018 4:14:41 PM PDT by mandaladon
Nike unveiled a new ad on Monday for the 30th anniversary of its "Just Do It" campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, who has remained unsigned by an NFL team for nearly two years.
The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback tweeted an image from the new campaign featuring a close-up photo of his face, accompanied by the words "Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything."
Kaepernick became the first player to take a knee during the national anthem during the 2016 NFL season as part of an effort to protest social injustice. He became a free agent at the end of the season, and has remained unsigned.
The player has since filed a grievance alleging that league owners colluded to keep him off a team. An arbitrator ruled last week that Kaepernick's case will go to trial. ESPN reported that Nike signed Kaepernick to an endorsement deal in 2011, and has maintained that contract since then.
"We believe Colin is one of the most inspirational athletes of this generation, who has leveraged the power of sport to help move the world forward," Gino Fisanotti, Nike's vice president of brand for North America, told ESPN.
In the roughly two years since Kapernick first started kneeling, numerous other players have taken a knee, raised a fist or have stayed off the field during the playing of the national anthem in protest of social injustice.
President Trump has lashed out at protesting players, declaring they should be fired and suggesting they don't belong in the country.
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Gezzz, so much for Nike products...
The PR people for this company must have their heads up their rumps.
He is a Front Hole.
If @$$hole Caperdick’s allegations were true, NIKE would be broke because the basketball boys wouldn’t have any money to pay 300 bucks for a pair of sneakers. Geez. Life isn’t rocket science. People need to figure out how to engage their brains and then use them.
Counterfitters cater to the world market. Most people can't afford Nyke. Especially the children slaves that make them.
Sounds like the left will be using Kaepernick as their role model for indoctrination of the gullible youts after they dress him up in the latest "look at me, I'm important because I wear pretty Nike bling made in China."
Believe in What??? Sacrificing What? Looks to me like he just got a nice cushy deal with Nike so He’s a even a more multi-millionaire complaining about some sort of unfairness or something or other. Cops depicted as Pigs socks must cost a lot of dough? I sure could use a smidgen of that new million or more he’s raking in to help out my struggling kids with their crappy Obama-care insurance and ridiculous student loans. I don’t get it.
And we just bought the grand-son an adorable little pair of Nike shoes on sale a couple days ago ... they are getting returned!
No Nikes ... yep. I always get Under Armor for the boy and Saucony or New Balance for me. BIL who is big into human rights and fair trade for some reason did not like Nike previously, and this settles it.
“I don’t get it.”
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Me neither——everything seems to be upside down.
What was always bad,is good——what was always good,is
bad.
I’m glad I’m old.
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Nike is yesterday. I guess they figure this will energize their yesterday base. Yawn.
It’s call free advertising for Adidas, Asics, New Balance and Saucony. Possibly even Skechers, too.
Nike Special Sale! Comes with one knee pad and a 5 dollar off coupon for head lice spray.
Brand Suicide.
Please, please. List for me the good that has come from the players kneeling. How did Colin bring the world “forward?” Honest question. What good has come?
And a free American flag urinal screen!
Nikes definitely are not for athletes other than perhaps basketball players. All the rest don’t need the degree of protection that results in the foot musculature atrophy Nikes and many other hard “foot coffin” shoes cause.
There was a time when the phrase meant something.
Is Nike selling Knee pads? He didn’t Sacrifice a damn thing. He turned down a contract extenstion be cause he thought a 2 and 12 quarterback that is more a drama queen cancer would have all of the NFL begging for him.
Do what? Support radical Islam?
That slogan about sacrificing everything sounds like something a jihadist would say before shouting ‘allah fubar’.
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