Posted on 09/03/2018 6:56:30 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Nike has chosen the star of its 30th anniversary #JustDoIt advertising campaign: Colin Kaepernick. At first glance, it seems weird for an athletic shoe company to select as its corporate icon someone who is no longer an athlete, and was never a star. At second glance, it gets weirder:
Nike apparently thinks Kaepernick has sacrificed everything, which tells you something about 21st century corporate America. Kaepernich is a multimillionaire whose “sacrifice” consisted of kneeling during the National Anthem, wearing socks depicting police officers as pigs, and generally denouncing his country. Which has led to a second career as a leftist spokesman. That is not exactly a contender in the annals of Greatest Sacrifice Ever.
Further, Nike’s tag line, “Believe in something,” naturally raises the question: Does it matter what you believe in? Any normal person would say that it does. After all, the worst monsters in human history–Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Nero, Hitler, Amin, bin Laden, Castro–all believed in something. It was just the wrong thing.
ClayTravis This is the dumbest move @nike has ever made in the history of its brand.
I interviewed Travis a week or two ago on the Laura Ingraham radio show, talking about his new book Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left Is Ruining Sports With Politics. Clay’s book, written by the only person to be banned by both ESPN and CNN, is a useful commentary on the kind of corporate insanity that afflicts companies like Nike.
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“Nike - Just To Hell With America”
Just trashed my Nikes!
Wow, what kind of marketing department does Nike have? Even a big chunk of liberal sports fans think Kaepernick is an attention-seeking no-talent.
There wasn’t another of their athletes in 30 FRIGGIN’ YEARS that they could have chosen?
From a marketing standpoint, ASTONISHINGLY stupid.
First of all LIBS are NOT the business owners AND hard workers in this country, the people the IDIOTS at NIKE are trying to please have plenty of time to march in the streets, because THEY ARE NOT WORKING, they can NOT afford to buy their DAMNED PRODUCT!!! This company has just signed their DEATH WARRANT!!!! What FOOLS!!!!
It figures. Nike is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, a suburb of Portland.
I love it. I think they should honor kneelers by setting some nike shoe stores on fire.
What’s next...Hitler Hikers?...goodbye Nike ...
Blacks make up a large portion of sneaker sales (air Jordan and rioting at malls when they appear and killing for them?)
Nike decided they want more o dat.
I’d boycott Nike over this, but I’ve been boycotting them for thirty or more years since it became apparent to me that they had been probably the leader in moving US athletic shoe production to cheap labor nations in Asia.
Amazing to me too. My family won’t buy any.
“Further, Nike’s tag line, “Believe in something,” naturally raises the question: ”
Nike is telling you what they believe in right to our faces.
We need to start listening.
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Ok nike.. you can join Target, the red hen, big dicks sporting and several others on my “oh hell no” list.
and the Pontiac Aztec.
Like nearly everyone in the world, I own (and have owned) a number of pairs of their shoes. And I always thought it was kind of cool how underpaid, public-university track coach Bill Bowerman went into the business in his mid-50s with one of his former students... and became a gazillionaire. A truly American success story. At some point, though, Nike decided that social liberalism was a great market tool. Who knows... maybe it does juice sales for them, but it’ll be a while before I buy another pair of their shoes.
RIP Nike profits.
That sporting goods store was going to be named Little D, on the suggestion of the owner’s wife, since she felt that name to be most fitting for the owner.
I’ll have to pass on this boycott as I haven’t bought Nike anything in over 30 years.
“Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”
Sounds more like Pat Tillman
Just Dolt.
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