Nike’s Colin Kaepernick doing what he does best, nuttin good.
Nike hired Kaepernick to do some adds for them. That must mean an advertising firm did a study that told them customers would respond by purchasing their product. It implies that Kaepernick has some kind of courage and conviction that should be admired.
People in the US are destroying their Nike clothes to protest the company’s new ad campaign starring Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback whose protests during the national anthem before games caught the ire of President Donald Trump.
Kaepernick caused a stir when he sat on the bench while the anthem played before an NFL game in August 2016. Asked why he wasn’t standing, he said he was sitting in protest over police killings of unarmed black men. He went on to consistently kneel during the anthem, and while he went unsigned last season, a handful of other players had continued the practice.
The new Nike campaign, released Monday night, showed an image of Kaepernick with the words “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”
I guess time will tell if consumers have any long-term response to this. I was a lifelong football fan, I have not watched a single game or attended one since he took a knee. Supporting a false narrative of victimization while living with a silver spoon up your ass does not gain my favor. Police are not killing unarmed Black Men in mass, the entire notion of it is hysterical hyperbole and has been debunked countless times.
Its getting to the point that I can’t enjoy my white privilege anymore.
He is an insult to shoe salesmen everywhere.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Dumbass Bullshit
Bitching, moaning, groaning, and complaining because no one will hire him after he turned down two contract offers; one being his fifth year option with the 49er’s and another with the Broncos.
What owner in their right mind would want such poison and divisiveness in their locker room.
Nationalize ALL of his money and holdings and ship the worthless turd to the middle east, maybe he can get a job there shoveling camel shyt! imo
but…but…he is soooo “woke”. He’s so “woke” he can now tell only the lies his girl friend feeds him on behalf of their white, liberal, puppeteer.
That idiot hasn’t lost anything due to his disrespect of the flag and country. He has gained a good portion of the country’s disgust.
He sucked as a QB his last few seasons in SF, which is the main reason no one hasn’t a need for him. The only thing he would attract to any team is a bunch of unwanted media attention, and as a byproduct, hurt them financially with their fanbase.
You’re right. What was Frisco, 1-15 his last year as a starter? The NFL will hire and play anyone if he can help to win games. Hell, if he was good, he would have been snapped up the moment he went free agent. He gambled. He lost.
Yep. Straight trash his last season playing in the NFL. This is pretty much the only way he can make money at this point. He is a professional “Social Activist.”
Sociapl Activist pays well. Just ask that Mumbles Jackson (can you tell me what job he has held for the last 50 years?) and God’s gift to orators, Al Sharpton. They both have one foot in a grave and the other on a banana peel. Krappy is primed to take the reins and bilk the evil corporations just as they did. Nike is just the first to sign on.
He got them to SB 47 because no one had any game film on him. Once they did, as in the next year, his success evaded him.
Haven’t bought any Nike since they started making shoes in Viet Nam . Same same with 511 gear . Haven’t watched a pro game since klapperdick took a knee and there wasn’t anyone to kick him in the ass and make him stand .
Done and doner !!!
Wait 511 are now made outside the USA?! Darn, what am I to wear as a contractor for the Army wanting to look like I was an Operator? How can I tell my war stories about burning my hand making coffee for the General in Afghanistan… or having to carry multiple coins in my pocket when getting on and off helicopters flying from safe base to safe base in Iraq?…. oh wait, that ‘s right that wasn’t me. It was just a dream.
I ordered Propper for my PD , after looking at samples of 511 gear . The shirts and pants fit better .And they’re not made in RVN .
LRRP2 …we are in 100% agreement!!
I can just see the long lines forming at Nike stores across the fruited plain.
The shareholders are ecstatic.
My ex’s dead husband worked for Nike and he just sat up in his grave.
“Its getting to the point that I can’t enjoy my white privilege anymore.”
That’s the problem I have with on line shopping. Since nobody can see that I am White, I have to pay what everyone else does! So, nowadays, I shop locally as much as I can. Time was that meant a 50% discount but it’s now down to 25% for the privilege of whitiness–provided, of course, I get a White clerk. And the trouble with that is that I hate lines and all of us White people go to the White clerks. It’s freakin’ horrible. Some days it just doesn’t pay to be White.
Do you go to White Castle, too?
Bet you use white bath tissue also. White picket fence? White frigidare? washer/dryer? T Shirts/tighty whiteys? white milk? and OMG the horror… white pillow cases and sheets!
You may be forgetting the first rule of white privilege – the code of silence.
Just give me the discount and avoid the wink please – we know what we’re doing here.
Gee Whiz…Nike is on a roll.
Remember this issue with Nike and the US Naval Academy crest?
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=80009
As a matter of fact, I do remember, AP.
*grin*
😉👍
Remember: It is not too late to turn away from the Dark Side…
Go Army! Beat Navy!
You are dyslectic..its GO NAVY, BEAT ARMY lol
I think I get Nike’s move. White libs are the target customers, just as they are for Subaru. Frankly, young blacks are killing each other in such numbers and at such a rate that they simply cannot be the target customers. White libs, on the other hand, will buy the Nike stuff to show their solidarity and liberalhood, without risking a thing themselves. It’s a COEXIST sticker for their feet.
Subaru…nauseating old hippies (remember senile drug-addled granny hugging a tree reminiscing about her late Jerry Garcia-type husband she met at Woodstock?) and beta males…and alpha females at least until the low slung car rips out the oil pan or ends up in a ditch out in the wild where the apex predators roam
“Out in the wild where the apex predators roam”? Detroit? Chiraq?
This fucking cry baby has already had his 15 minutes of fame, he needs to go away and eat a bag of dicks! I too have not watched a single NFL game since they started all of this bullshit! Why don’t they protest the number of blacks killing blacks in Chicago everyday?? They should call if the Negro Fapping League anyway! I don’t understand why the owners put up with all this shit anyway? If I owned the team, it would be, you don’t want to respect our flag, then you don’t get a paycheck! Let’s see how many would remain with their convictions then? What a bunch of fucking crybabies!!! I never had any Nikes anyway, but if I did, I would take them outside and burn them! I’m sure Tiger Woods will be wearing them this season?? Why don’t they dig up Trevon and plant some nice Nikes on his dead feet?? At least I still have college football to watch for now??
“[H]e needs to go away and eat a bag of dicks!” Why give him pleasure?
Sorry, I meant to say a bag of dicks up his asshole!!
He might enjoy that too. Try a bag of rabid wolverines. In other news Nike stock dropped today, wonder why?
WW: Reference your comment about what is going on in Chicago:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/03/chicagos-violent-labor-day-weekend-leaves-at-least-6-dead-more-than-1000-shot-since-memorial-day.html
The names of the victims:
https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/?_ga=2.47286375.1145302529.1536084053-97160790.1536084053
Thanks Pat, funny how they never mention all the killings of blacks by other blacks? You would think by now, they could come up with some excuse to blame whitey???
WW:
Additionally,Kaepernick protests are about LEOs shooting Blacks. Don’t think he has ever addressed via Public the problem of Blacks shooting Blacks, especially in the Chicago area.
Kaepernick lives in an Alternate Reality World. Bet he would never dare to go to Inner City Chicago and walk around the area UNESCORTED by Body Guards.
Which asks the question, how many suspects were taken into custody for these crimes?
*crickets*
The best site in the world for Chicago shooting numbers is called Hey Jackass! It breaks the shootings down every which way, including shot placement. It updates daily, as it must. Wait a week and you’re backlogged like nobody’s buisness. Thus far in 2018, police have shot 13, four of whom died. I believe all were justified. On the other hand, to date, 2095 have been shot, mostly young black males shooting other black males. Clearly, black lives do not matter.
https://heyjackass.com
Harm Emmanuel is out, not running for re-election. He phuked up by actually suggesting some weeks ago when he had the audacity to note aloud that the absence of family (with an actual father present in the household) and faith (some moral guidance) play a role in the violence. Idiot was supposed to keep that shit quiet. Everyone knows what’s going on, but were supposed to pretend otherwise. He violated the first rule of liberalism: never tell the truth.
Liked the Jackass site, 2/17 Air Cav…gonna share it with others.
Thank You!
And how many were shot by blacks, not white police?>
Ahem….
I’ll have you know, Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds against his old nemesis, “Spare Tire” Dixon.
He was a legend… and then he got married… with children.
Marriage = the leading cause of divorce children = potentially God’s punishment for adults enjoying sex.
Alimony, fucking you get for fucking you got.
Saw this in regards to Nike.
https://twitter.com/akamanonthemoon/status/1036792485505363969
Much more poignant symbolism. Nike can FOAD.
I will never understand why a non-political company so willingly jumps into politics in a surefire move to alienate and piss off half the country. Just shows how deluded these radical lefties are that they can’t understand that there are people who disagree with them. They just cannot fathom that.
They listen to the wrong people, that’s all. They think their customers are the millennials, and that they have lots of money, and neither is true. In addition, the millennials aren’t very interested in sports or sports figures. They no longer understand their own market.
That is also true for many other companies that are slowly sliding into financial disrepair. Macy’s, for example, is about to go under. Sears is nearly done for. I see more and more closings in the nearest mall, while neighborhood shops are opening a few at a time, even in the area where I live, and that means that the ‘big box’ and chain stuff is being replaced online and smaller specialty shops are taking up space now.
Here’s something to consider: if millennials don’t like commuting 35 to 50 miles on a train to get to work, the suburbs may lose a lot of population to the cities. It’s almost like ‘what goes around, comes around’ at work. And it won’t surprise me at all if it does happen. The commuter trains are so overcrowded now, as it is, that passengers going and coming have to stand in the aisles to ride the rails, and that’s with the doubledecker cars included. There’s a shift going on. Give it time.
They listen to blowhards like Musk pontificate about how in the future we’ll just dig tunnels upon tunnels. Solar powered tunnels!
So basically in the socialist utopia that is our future, Musk and the Democrats want us to be Morlocks.
The myth of suburban flight to the cities is an urbanista wet dream repeated endlessly by the New York Times as it whistles past the graveyard. What the actual Census data reflects, and has for a long time is that about 20 percent of people are rural, another 60 percent live in an exurban/suburban environment, and the remaining 20 percent live in an urban setting if defined by population density and proximity to a central business district (CBD). There has been little indication those numbers are going to change much anytime soon.
One of the reasons the numbers aren’t likely to change is a matter of biology. There are already indications millennials are turning out in ways similar to prior generations. As they get older, they start having kids, and a single-family house becomes a priority in a neighborhood with good schools and a yard with room for a dog.
Recent studies have also indicated that only about 15 percent of commuters now have daily destinations to a CBD core. A large amount of commute traffic apparently involves trips on the exurban/suburban fringe to other places on the exurban/suburban fringe.
Ace of Spades had a good commentary on that. Liberals get hired as chatroom moderators and only allow “acceptable commentary”. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/376824.php#376824
Hey Kap, If the foo shits, wear it, and while we are at it, Bend your knees and touch your toes, and I’ll show you where the sneaker goes.
Krapernick has no clue about what it means to really put it all on the line. Never has, never will. Playing a game and making an ass of himself in front of thousands of people is not putting everything on the line. Pat Tillman put it all on the line. Krapernick isn’t fit to carry Tillman’s deuce gear.
I totally agree with you good sir! This little pussnutts couldn’t even carry the jock strap of Pat Tilman, now there is someone who put it all on the line!!!
All of the above X 10M. Brother sent me one of those me me thingys showing Pat Tilman’s pic with their new little saying. Some one more technically advanced than me may can find it and post it for all. My white privilege allows me to contributes at least 30+% of my paycheck to a tax of some sort every 2 weeks
Nike’s stock dropped over 2 1/5 % today…. just saying.
I’m sure that’s only the start. If I owned a pair of Nike shoes I’d have burnt them by now, one does NOT spit on Red State America like Nike did sans suffering serious consequences!
“Get woke, go broke”. It is to be devoutly wishing. Screw the Swoosh…
The ad agency Weiden+Kennedy has done a lot of good work, but seem here to be channeling Chiat Day’s old Apple “Think Different” campaign.
It’s no surprise Nike would lean left. They got started at the University of Oregon, and are based outside Portland.
Although it’s also routine for Nike to use high-profile athletes, the choice of Kaepernick seems odd. The company has been known to bounce people if they get too far out on the ragged edge. If memory serves, Tiger Woods, for example, got dumped that time his blonde hottie wife conked him with a 9-iron during a domestic dispute.
FUCK Kaepernick and FUCK Nike, that’s all I have for now.
API, let us not forget to Fuck Dick’s! These assholes will never get a dime of my money! I would rather walk barefoot across a burning bed of hot coals than wear some piece of shit Nike shoe!
I’m just adding to the list of companies I refuse to do business with.
When Apple decided not to give the unlock codes for the smart phoneto the FBI to the husband & wife shooters in California, they started the list. The Feds finally got in but lost all the time sensitive intel.
Dicks decided to play politics so they joined the list and now Nike makes the triumvirate.
I shop at Academy and anyplace that ISN’T Dick’s!
Colon grew up with more white privilege than any Caucasian-American in the NFL. He didn’t use football as a way out of the ghetto, he lived in affluent suburbs. Fuck this washed-up phony cocksucker and the liberal culture that spawned him.
He was just another empty headed footballer until he hooked up with his current wife/whatever. She is a severely deluded SJW sympathizing, indoctrinated progtard. She is likely the one who convinced him that he was another black victim of “the Man” and white privilege, and he needed to “get down with the struggle.” I will never, ever purchase anything with that effing Nike swoosh on it.
No offense intended to anyone with the following, but I suspect Nike knows exactly to whom they are marketing these shoes and clothing items and it ain’t me or anyone who looks like me.
Based on the models on their website I suspect they know their demographic and are playing to it with these adds for specific items.
You’ve seen a shoe release riot, haven’t you?
Nike Air Jordans fly off the shelves in more ways than one.
Veritable,
They may indeed be marketing towards a thug demographic.
Even so, how does it help them to alienate literally millions of consumers?
My kids have bought tons of their stuff, and now they are forbidden to buy anything from them.
If they want to market to gang members and hangers on, they could easily do that and not anger every conservative person in the country.
Seems counterproductive for a company to take any side in the culture wars.
My money is just as green ad blm money.
Now they have lost me and millions of others
See my post on the Dicks thread. Sub Nike for Dicks. “Marketing to a different demographic.” How many of that demographic “buy” the product unless it’s on the riot, loot, burn, sale?
Add this to the list of dumb business decisions 101.
Guess the decision is easy since I don’t own a single thing from Nike anyway.
Kaepernick can suck a bag of dicks!
Perhaps Nike is betting on the come for its other brands, thinking Americans are just dumb f’s. “Hey if they don’t by Nike, just let them buy Converse, or Hurley, or ………..
Nike Owns:
1)NIKE Golf. This division of Nike designs and sells all types of golf supplies. …
2)Hurley International LLC. …
3) Cole Haan. …
4)Converse, Inc. …
5) Umbro Ltd.
Among Others. I am not a fan of boycotting by any stretch, and actually like their products, but they make me think twice now.
Screw Kaepernick.
Aside from a pair or two of shoes, I think I’ve been boycotting them already for decades!
I haven’t bought Nike in over 20 years not because of anybody’s politics…but because it is a lousy product. Infantry guys who run every day at PT know that Asics and New Balance are better.
To those who wish to buy Nike and then take a photo of yourself burning them …. well Nike wants that too. Key word being “Purchased.” They got your money at that point, what do they care? If you want to make an impact, don’t buy them. I’m not going to announce that I am boycotting Nike since I don’t buy them to begin with. It would be like David Hogg refusing to buy guns.
Not to get off topic, but try Brooks too!! I used to be an Assics guy until I tried Brooks. Never going back.
Brooks wearer here as well. They are made in Viet Nam, but at least it’s not China. Their motion control shoes did wonders for the old knees. Other companies also make motion control shoes. Brooks fit me best.
I’m good with Brooks, but I also like ASICS and Saucony as well.
I’m with you Infidel. I haven’t worn Nike running shoes since 1981. I prefer ASICS and Brooks as well. I avoid Dick’s and order shoes online from other companies.
And, if you already have Nikes, donate them to a homeless shelter, or a charity that does that kind of work. Then go out and buy a pair of New Balance, or Asics,
Nike’s history is replete with sweat shops overseas, child labor, and other ugly business practices. They don’t make shit in China, Indonesia, Viet Nam and elsewhere in Asia because they like Asians. But this Krapernick ad endears them to many people who would be up in arms if they knew the truth behind the company. Are you listening liberal soccer mommies?
Fuck Klaperdick. And fuck the NFL and anyone else who kneels during the anthem or otherwise disrespects our great flag and country. I have not watched an NFL game since my hometown Ravens took a knee at the game in England. I will not watch another NFL game until they support our country and our flag and stop these stupid, thug assholes for their shameful, bullshit actions. I know that will never happen, so I guess I will never watch an NFL game again.
Ditto that, protesting for a cause is one thing but intentionally disrespecting our Flag and National Anthem to do so will automatically make me say “FUCK YOU!” to you, your cause and organization. When did we see a single member of the National Felon League say even a damn thing during their off season? Where are any of them drawing attention to things like rampant gang violence in places like Chicago?
Dick’s: “Nobody can piss people off and make sales nosedive like we did.”
Nike: “HOLD MY BEER!”
^^^^Like^^^^
For a perfect parody of the Nike semi-Colin ad:
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/comic/head-case-2/
Hopefully that’s all of the URL. If not, go to yesterday’s (Tuesday’s) Day By Day on line comic.
The slogan is very ironic.
“Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”
Let’s watch Nike swallow their own medicine. If sales take a huge plunge, let’s see how much they stick to their own slogan. In theory, they should even if the entire company goes down the drain. Then, and only then, would I admire them for sticking to their principles.
I just love the saying below his picture: “Believe In Something. Even If It Means Sacrificing Everything.” What a crock of shit. He didn’t sacrifice a damn thing. He had nothing to sacrifice. He was the shittiest QB in modern NFL history, so nobody wanted him, therefore he sacrificed nada. But … he came out looking like a saint with a shit pot of money. So he gives up nothing and get paid. Nice gig if you can get it. What a waste of space.
“He was the shittiest QB in modern NFL history…” You haven’t seen Joe Flacco in action. Gawd, that guy sucks. Like krappy, D II Delaware Blue Hen Flacco “won” a super bowl and forgot to watch the game film of how the win actually occurred.
OK Guys, Not only am I going to Hell but I’m taking Air Force 2.
*Spew alert* This was on book of face and I couldn’t find it so I recreated it.
Former UFC Fighter, Army Ranger Joins Nike Boycott Over Kaepernick Ad
Calls ad an ‘offense’ to U.S. service members, veterans.
Fox News Link
Here is the Nike Commercial that will be featured at tomorrow’s NFL game between the Falcons and the Eagles:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/heres-nikes-full-ad-featuring-colin-kaepernick-and-other-athletes.html
Yeah, it will be the most viewed commercial of all time. It even gets previews. Screw that.
I just heard today that Nike died from Colin Cancer.
Anybody else heard that?
Bueller? Bueller?
Claw, Jeff LPH 3, 63-66, is supposed to be the TAH Punner…but have to admit, what you wrote is funny..😉
Thanks. It took me a little while to come up with that one. (Actually stolen from my retired Senior Chief son’s Book of the Face posting)
But you know what they say, an organized desk or work bench is the first sign of a sick mind./smile