LOCKED - Nike has a new spokesman.

[DAWG61]

So wait, 330 Million out of 7 Billion make up 41% of their sales? I'd not be happy as a stock holder to take this hit today. Let's see how the stock trends.

330 Million is the population of USA not the population of the Nike boycotters. I'm gonna roughly guess 1-3 million people decide to never buy something from the leading apparel business in the world ever again. They can have fun with that. I'll continue to enjoy using Nike products like always.

 

[DAWG61]

I'll concede he's made some, maybe even a lot of sacrifice, but everything...hardly. Sacrificing everything implies losing at a minimum his wealth (which he still appears to have) and laying it down without fighting (his lawsuit over his football career). Losing/giving some wealth and fighting not to lose his career is not sacrificing everything...it's losing. It's at a minimum a poor choice of words on his part and Nike's.

And I would like to think that I'm certainly willing to take on millions of people that hate my guts for what I believe in, considering the One I believe in truly sacrificed everything for me, but I wouldn't be glorifying myself in my sacrifice, and I certainly would do everything in my power to make sure it didn't appear that I would be gaining from any sacrifice I claimed to make...if I had to in fact do that (I hope and pray I never have to do that).

For the record I am not a big fan of the word "everything" in the ad as well.

 

[Bcash2]

Ha. For some reason I'm not buying this.

Correct. Commie. Just seeing if anyone would notice.

nm

 

[AssEndDawg]

I won't debate this may have impacted his football career (even though that remains to be seen), and I can also applaud his donations, but it's a step far to say (even if it's implied and not explicit) "sacrifice everything" as it appears he's making money off of his "sacrificing everything" and as it appears he's fighting to gain from his football woes (his lawsuit). This is not the definition of "sacrifice everything". Again, I could be misinformed or misinterpreting facts; it just seems hypocritical to me.

This is a little ridiculous. He didn't know he was going to get a Nike contract out of this, so it has zero bearing on him standing up for his ideas whether you believe it or not. You point would only make sense if Nike went to him BEFORE and said, "hey, you make a big deal about this police violence against black people thing and we will give you a fat contract!" That is not what happened. He did sacrifice, that doesn't mean he has to live in a dirty hole the rest of his life....

 

[Dawgg]

Ole Miss is a Nike school. That’s really all the motivation i need to not buy Nike merchandise.

Same here. Been Adidas only for quite some time.

 

[dawgstudent]

Enjoyed it.