[ April 24, 2024 ]
Incredible.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
The era of hate. It’s a sickness, like a cancer, eating away at the very soul of this country.
Nike selects Colin Kaepernick for ‘Just Do It’ ad campaign
Nike selected the controversial former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as the new face of the athletic wear company’s “Just Do It” campaign, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
“Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt,” Kaepernick, who has been with Nike since 2011 though hasn’t played on an NFL team since the 2016 season, posted on Twitter on Monday afternoon.
The now-free agent quarterback, who led the Niners to Super Bowl XLVII where they fell to the Baltimore Ravens, stirred up controversy when he began kneeling during the playing of the national anthem prior to NFL games, beginning in the summer of 2016, to protest racial injustices against the African-American community.
Story continues below advertisementMany other players have joined the movement since it began, which eventually led to NFL owners voting to enact a national anthem policy for the 2018 season. Under the new guidelines announced in May, players and others associated with the NFL who are on the sideline must stand during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner, while those who choose not to stand must remain in the locker room.The policy has been on hold since July under an agreement with the NFL Players Association, and while the league and players union have tried to come to a deal that pleases both sides, it doesn’t appear likely that the two parties will have an agreement before the start of the 2018 season on Thursday.
The movement also caught the attention of President Trump, who lambasted Kaepernick and other players who participated in the pregame protests. Last September, the president called on NFL owners to fire any player who kneeled during the national anthem.
Television ratings declined nearly 10% across all networks during the 2016-2017 regular season, according to data from Nielsen, though that cannot be blamed solely on the anthem controversy. An average NFL game was watched by 1.6 million fewer people in 2017 versus the prior year— an overall decline from 16.5 million to 14.9 million, according to ESPN. Ratings saw a similar decline last season, falling 8%, the sports network reported. Still, 20 of the 30 top-rated shows on television last year were NFL games, according to Nielsen data.
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55 Comments
5 years ago
Everything is so political now: sports, talk shows, comic books, sitcoms, social media, schools. I know I have had enough,
5 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
I believe this is going to big Nike in the rear. Nike is already the subject of protests over their renewed Slave Labor controversy.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ron Stanford
Agreed. Let’s see how their stock gets treated at this morning’s opening bell on the NYSE.
5 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Walk away from the NFL, and take your money with you, The ingrates playing thugball can then organize their own “defiance football league”. No one will attend the games.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
I’m done w/the NFL too. When millionaires bitch about America it’s just too much for me. Then again, I’m done w/all professional sports as well.
5 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Very true, we watch entertainment in order to get away from politics and the humdrum of everyday life. We don’t need to have their leftist politics constantly pushed on us. A big reminder to get out and vote for a red wave so maybe this nonsense can stop.
5 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
in fact Trump should pass executive order after taking a poll to ban players for not standing up for Anthem or disrespecting the flag and rescinding citizenship of such players and seize assets for being enemy agents.
congress won’t do their job
while Left/liberal pro-jihadi run EU is turning into islamic hellhole with more jihadi attacks Trump is shutting down jihadi funding that has been running for decades now https://tinyurl.com/ya4gdwt3
Left/Liberal Loons say that makes him “racist” , “islamophobe” . Guess what Trump gives a damn . LOL !
5 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Screw ’em all!!! I was a devout follower of the Cowboys since their inception in 1961 until the NFL allowed this disrespect of our Flag to happen.
I NO LONGER WATCH ANY NFL AND COULDN’T CARE LESS ABOUT IT!!!
5 years ago
Reply to
[email protected]
It will take two more seasons for the NFL to realize that ticket sales have decreased, some season ticket-holders have not renewed, and Nielsen ratings for TV viewership have revealed that people are shunning televised NFL games. Then, and only then, they will realize that they have fooked the duck!
5 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
You forgot to mention funerals. Agreed, I have had more than enough.
5 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
Funerals are getting so politicized, it’s like going to a political protest march.
5 years ago
Short Nike stock and make some money off of Krapperdick!
The backlash on Bleacher Report (a sports web site) is incredible. Nike really stepped in it – BIGLY!
5 years ago
New Balance has a line of shoes made in America, not in a sweat shop in asia.
5 years ago
Reply to
overboosted ✓ᴰᴱᴾᴸᴼᴿᴬᴮᴸᴱ
I wear New Balance shoes as well, and they make really wide, 6E shoes.
5 years ago
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tweets Support for Colin Kaepernick
Colin Kaepernick has not played football since the 2016 season, and even then, he wasn’t one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. In fact, Kaepernick lost his starting job to journeyman quarterback Blaine Gabbert just prior to the start of that season.
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The #NFL season will start this week, unfortunately once again @Kaepernick7 is not on a NFL roster.
Even though he is one of the best Quarterbacks in the league.
#ColinKaepernick #NFL
Remember him? He openly stated he wanted to “WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH”!
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
His successor, Rouhani, is functionally no better – just less charismatic.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
I remember seeing a ludicrous picture of Naturei Karta (not sure if I spelled that right) HUGGING A$$minijihad.
5 years ago
Same here. I was raised on Nike. NO MORE!
5 years ago
Last year or so, Budweiser decided that it was a good idea to hire Seth Rogen and Amy Schumer to do a series of political lectures as their advertisements. Sales plummeted and shows no signs of recovering.
Nike is about to learn how easy it is for customers to not buy their over-priced, slave-labor footwear.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ron Stanford
Yes, I think that Budweiser campaign ended rather quickly. They should stick to using dogs, lizards and frogs in their ads.
5 years ago
Reply to
cheatemandhowe
>Yes, I think that Budweiser campaign ended rather quickly.>
It ended a week before the cycle was suppose to end. That is unprecedented.
> They should stick to using dogs, lizards and frogs in their ads.>
Frankly, I’d prefer they went back to comedians who are actually funny and scantily clad young ladies. But that might just be me.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ron Stanford
With Caepernick and Ahmadinnerjacket on their side, I’m sure they will recover.
5 years ago
I wonder why the Social Justice Warrior wants to shill for a company that is notorious for using Child Slave Labor?
https://qz.com/1042298/nike-is-facing-a-new-wave-of-anti-sweatshop-protests/
5 years ago
Reply to
Ron Stanford
The Social Justice warriors don’t care. The won”t wake up until some Joe Stalin type has them arrested and shipped to a gulag in a frozen frontier far from their CNN TV sets …
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
Then they’ll be amazed to find out we were right all along about their wicked ideology but it will be too late for them.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
Not even then. The prisoners in the Russian gulags cried when Stalin died. They were convinced that the arrests happened without Uncle Joe’s knowledge. “When Stalin finds out what’s going on here, we’ll be freed” they believed.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ron Stanford
A tough, pretty, Russian Jewish woman told me the same thing (i.e. that people cried in the streets when Uncle Joe died), but she never saw it personally.
5 years ago
Just do it Nike. Thow your brand in the toilet.
5 years ago
Now this… from Breitbart. Says it all: Nike, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Endorse Colin Kaepernick on Same Day.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2018/09/03/nike-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-endorse-colin-kaepernick-on-same-day/
5 years ago
Who is working on Nike’s marketing team. Are they all twenty-something’s who have no clue what is going on. I’m glad Nike is doing this. Just makes my shopping for sports wear that much easier. I could have free vouchers for Nike stuff and still wouldn’t take it now.
5 years ago
Do you want to tell Nike you won’t be buying their products and why?
5 years ago
The idiot running this company. I do not buy sport shoes or sport clothes but if I did I would certainly not buy anything this company is selling.
5 years ago
Reply to
carpe diem 36
Yeah. Makes it hard to boycott when I could not bring myself to buy that overpriced stuff in the first place.
Nike is sacrificing more than that coocoo quarterback wannabe ever did. Maybe his girlfriend is shuffling the bucks over to some jihadist organization.
5 years ago
I really am shocked at the stupidity of Nike. Did they pay any attention to the loss of revenue the NFL suffered because of this knelling garbage? Like it is stated those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I won’t be buying Nike as many others won’t. Guess Nike will wake up when revenue tanks. Perhaps Nike will pass into the trash bin of failed companies.
5 years ago
Reply to
Steve
Nike couldn’t care less. They are every bit as unpatriotic, un-American, anti-American and treasonous as Kaepernick.
5 years ago
Wish he’d get a haircut 🙂
5 years ago
Never buy Nike . EVER!!
5 years ago
Boycott and bankrupt Nike. Drive them to the ground. Make them take a knee and beg for forgiveness.
5 years ago
Nike is following the advice of it’s own ad slogan. They mistakenly believe Kaepernick has a valid point while willing to sacrifice their corporate bottom line profits in an attempt to prove it.
The shareholders in Nike approved this blunder beforehand? Let’s see how Nike stock does at the opening bell on the NYSE today.
5 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
Nike’s marketing department’s “distant relatives” are heavily short Nike. Let the good times roll.
5 years ago
Well i wont be buying running shoes from them in the future.
5 years ago
It is obvious, Nike has a “bankruptcy fantasy” for it’s future.
5 years ago
I may’ve said it before, but . . . Kaepernick and all the other NFL “kneelers,” in their actions, not only display their hatred of America, law enforcement and our military (not to mention ICE), but essentially are also taking sides with MS-13, Crips, Bloods, drug dealers, human traffickers, rapists, muggers, cop killers and other violent criminal elements domestically; and with HAMAS, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, ISIS and other jihad terrorists abroad. Not for nothing, evidently, did Ahmadinejad endorse Kaepernick’s cowardly, treasonous actions.
And yes, Kaepernick IS a coward and a traitor. It shows how, under Obama, we went in just one generation from Pat Tillman to him. And Obama IS to blame for this phenomenon, as he has made it safe for such America-haters to openly show their contempt and disdain for this country. If Kaepernick WERE to fight abroad, five’ll get ya’ ten it wouldn’t be for the Stars and Stripes, but rather for jihad terror (a la John Walker Lindh).
And in tying in with this particular ingrate and Islamophiliac who gave money to aid and abet fugitive cop killer Joanne Chesimard (a.k.a. “Assata Shakur”), Nike shows they themselves are just as anti-American, anti-military, anti-law and order, pro-criminal, pro-cop killer, pro-lawlessness and pro-jihad.
5 years ago
Nike is big in Oregon…good place for them.
5 years ago
Let them reap what they have sown…..Boycott Nike Products…they hate your guts!
5 years ago
No more nike’s in this family, seven persons……….
5 years ago
Silverbacks always kneel down on the grass…
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5 years ago
No nike products will be purchased in my house ever again. What idiots
5 years ago
Do what Trump is doing to China, EU, Iran , Turkey …and the pillagetines: hit them where really hurts,…in their pockets.
Boycott them.
5 years ago
I think the Nike story, Phil Knight founder and partner, his former coach, was Bill Bowerman, and the company plan was was that shoes would be imported from Japan to compete with the established German shoe lines at that time. Established in 1964 and formerly known as Blue Ribbon Sports.
If the company model is to import shoes from Japan or from foreign countries, then I can see why they would be trying to support people who are attacking Trump, since Trump’s plan for the country is to bring manufacturing jobs back to America.
If President Trump succeeds, that would be bad for Nike.
5 years ago
Nike “Just BLEW it”. Never bought Nike but now never will.
5 years ago
