(09-04-2018, 07:43 PM)Millhouse Wrote: I wonder if Nike will roll out some socks with pigs in police uniforms?

Or some T's with Castro's face on it saying Just Do It?

(09-04-2018, 07:43 PM)Millhouse Wrote: I wonder if Nike will roll out some socks with pigs in police uniforms?

I get why people are mad at Kaepernick. He was the one who saluted that North Korean general, right?

— Rex Chapman?? (@rex_rexchapman) September 3, 2018

(09-04-2018, 07:00 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Sure it made news; however, the brilliance of it is to be determined.

(09-04-2018, 07:04 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: I dunno......what about the old cantankerous white man market?

(09-04-2018, 11:22 PM)Benton Wrote: Those easily led tend to always be easily led.

They picked up a ton of free marketing across a variety of bases. The handful of people upset enough not to buy any more Nike gear are (generally) the same people who only got upset when told how upset they were. They'll come back around when they're told to.

And this isn't saying all people upset about Kaepernick's protest are easily led. There's a large portion of upset people who said "hey, this protest is dumb... time to watch the game." There were also a large portion that said "hey, this is dumb, I'm going to set fire to $600 worth of jerseys... oh $#%*! WTF did I do!? That guy I like is still wearing his jersey!"

That latter group has taken to Twitter and Facebook and given Nike countless dollars of free advertising... and they'll be wearing Nike gear just as soon as someone they want to emulate is wearing it. 

(09-04-2018, 11:36 PM)bfine32 Wrote:

As I said: We'll see how brilliant it is.

Personally, I'm going to diversify a little bit into Under Armor stock.

For tweets suggesting #Nike stock is down over 2-percent today due to the Colin Kaepernick endorsement, here’s the ticker for #Adidas and #Puma. Both also down over 2-percent today. Neither signed Kaepernick. It’s a broad-based NAFTA-related dip, folks. Not Kaepernick. #Context. pic.twitter.com/UchRSlGIAT

— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) September 4, 2018

(09-04-2018, 11:43 PM)GMDino Wrote: Should have bought before it went up.

Anyway...

For tweets suggesting #Nike stock is down over 2-percent today due to the Colin Kaepernick endorsement, here’s the ticker for #Adidas and #Puma. Both also down over 2-percent today. Neither signed Kaepernick. It’s a broad-based NAFTA-related dip, folks. Not Kaepernick. #Context. pic.twitter.com/UchRSlGIAT

— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) September 4, 2018

(09-04-2018, 11:55 PM)bfine32 Wrote:

Quote:On Monday, Nike announced the face of the thirtieth anniversary of its iconic "Just Do It" campaign: GQ's own Citizen of the Year, Colin Kaepernick. And as with every other time Kaepernick has earned an accolade, Donald Trump's supporters lost their damn minds.


In this case, right-wing doofuses across the Internet started angrily tweeting that Nike should instead have chosen former Arizona Cardinal Pat Tillman, who died in Afghanistan from friendly fire in 2004. It's the kind of hiding-behind-vets technique that's commonly used when political leaders want to avoid or deflect criticism, but unfortunately Tillman's family wants no part of it. And we know this because Trump already tried a year ago to drag Tillman into his attacks on NFL players like Kaepernick who protest police brutality. At the time, Tillman's widow, Marie, issued a statement to CNN asking, in extremely non-confrontational language, that Trump knock it off. Per CNN:

Quote:"As a football player and soldier, Pat inspired countless Americans to unify," Marie said. "It is my hope that his memory should always remind people that we must come together."

Quote:"Pat's service, along with that of every man and woman's service, should never be politicized in a way that divides us. We are too great of a country for that," she wrote, subtly invoking Trump's "make America great again" slogan.

Quote:"Those that serve fight for the American ideals of freedom, justice and democracy," she wrote. "They and their families know the cost of that fight. I know the very personal costs in a way I feel acutely every day. The very action of self expression and the freedom to speak from one's heart — no matter those views — is what Pat and so many other Americans have given their lives for. Even if they didn't always agree with those views."

Quote:Tillman's statement concluded: "It is my sincere hope that our leaders both understand and learn from the lessons of Pat's life and death, and also those of so many other brave Americans."

This isn't the first time Kaepernick's critics have scrambled to find a white athlete they think is more deserving of praise, nor is it the first time that family members have asked the president and his supporters to please, for the love of God, stop hijacking the memory of their dead relatives.

(09-04-2018, 11:36 PM)bfine32 Wrote:

As I said: We'll see how brilliant it is.

Personally, I'm going to diversify a little bit into Under Armor stock.

(09-04-2018, 11:59 PM)GMDino Wrote: https://www.gq.com/story/pat-till-widow-no-anti-kaepernick-stunts



Classy bfine.

(09-05-2018, 12:03 AM)Benton Wrote: That’s mostly due to Nike being in danger of losing some of its cheap labor. It also doesn’t reflect that the brand has been dipping some in the us but growing a lot internationally.

In six months, people will be reposting the image of Tillman with nikes logo, all for the price of Collin kaepernick.

(09-05-2018, 12:06 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Thanks. I thought it was as well. The audacity of Nike to use someone on their payroll as someone that has sacrificed everything is 2funny.

As to Tillman; I'll always respect him as someone who sacrificed everything for something he believed in.

(09-04-2018, 11:55 PM)bfine32 Wrote:

(09-05-2018, 12:10 AM)GMDino Wrote: And use his image to advance your political beliefs against the wishes of his family while singing the blues for any perceived personal slight.

Sad.

Pitiful.

Hypocritical.

(09-05-2018, 12:14 AM)bfine32 Wrote: I've never used Tillman as a pawn in kneeling. I did use it to show the irony of Nike selecting Kap as an athlete who sacrificed everything. I'm not sure we've gotten the family's feedback on that.

(09-04-2018, 07:33 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I will say it gives me a chance to revisit one of the funniest videos I've seen: