Colin Kaepernick is the Face of Nike’s 30th Anniversary Ad Campaign

By rmrd0000 on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 10:25pm |

Nike features Colin Kaepernick as the star of it’s 30th anniversary ad campaign. The message:

“Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”

Kaepernick has been under contract to Nike since 2011. His collusion case against the NFL was recently allowed to go forward.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/nike-unveils-just-do-it-ad-featuring-colin-kaepernick?ref=home

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That's a huge lovely ballsy in-your-face, putting the NFL's new policy in the pitiful zone, while placing Nike's profits and reputation firmly on the line - exposed to pushback, boycott, all the same things Kap's dealt with but on a much costlier front. Moneyball will either approve or not, America will not be sidelined on this question, front and center as the season starts up and going into the elections. We'll see how it plays out, but puts a smile in my belly. You done good, lads, especially Kap, of course. He could have been bitter, but he's kept his cool, another part of the Resistance mosaic - not only "Just Do It", but do it smart (vs guys on Youtube jumping out of cars)

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 11:16pm

The billionaire owners...

Can they hear him now?

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by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 12:41am

I missed the NFL's paragraph in the fine print earlier - sounds like a stepdown from "our chattel will stand for the anthem or we will bring out the truncheons"

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/04/2018 - 9:21pm

Peracles . . .

Yes. I came back in this morning and added that and reduced the sizing on the graphics.

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by oldenGoldenDecoy on Tue, 09/04/2018 - 10:19pm

You moved my coffee cup too - took me 20 mins to find it. Jerk.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/04/2018 - 11:05pm

Trump chimes in...

09/04/18 | The Hill

President Trump on Tuesday said he thinks Nike is sending a “terrible message”

President Trump on Tuesday said he thinks Nike is sending a “terrible message” by featuring NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick in its 30th anniversary "Just Do It" advertising campaign.

“I think it’s a terrible message that they’re sending and the purpose of them doing it, maybe there’s a reason for them doing it,” Trump said in an interview with The Daily Caller. “But I think as far as sending a message, I think it’s a terrible message and a message that shouldn’t be sent. There’s no reason for it.”

But Trump also acknowledged that Nike has the right to feature Kaepernick in the advertisement.

“As much as I disagree with the Colin Kaepernick endorsement, in another way — I mean, I wouldn’t have done it,” he said. “In another way, it is what this country is all about, that you have certain freedoms to do things that other people think you shouldn’t do, but I personally am on a different side of it.”

Trump also said in the interview that “Nike is a tenant of mine. They pay a lot of rent.” referencing Nike’s five-floor Niketown store at Trump’s property on 57th Street in New York City.

Surprise surprise... as usual, the asshole may have his facts wrong.

The NikeTown location he seems to be referring to has closed.

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by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 6:21am

This isn't "having his facts wrong" - he doesn't care. He sees he's lost his position, so he quickly shifts to adopt a different winning position - in this case, from "Nike sucks" to "Nike is one of my customers, so whatever they do I make out like a bandit". Even this one has a bait-and-switch aspect, since we're not talking about "Nike the multibillion dollar behemoth", but "a branch of Nike that may pay me a few hundred thousand a year", then fudged into "They pay a lot of rent". Defining that $ figure is counterproductive - he's associating a multibillion dollar company with paying him - he wants to leave the impression of billions in his pocket, even though he likely has only a few tens or couple hundred million after his debts & obligations.
Remember, Trump is all about winning 24x7. He doesn't care about being wrong. He doesn't care about facts. He cares about being seen as not rich - i.e. a fear, not an ambition or aspiration.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 6:40am

Niketown is still open. Plans to close and move in 2019.

Likely no one had the nerve to tell Trump Niketown will be leaving in 2019. Does he need to know..? Doubt it.

Why suffer the "kill the messenger" Trump anger and abuse? (Trump "Lawyer X lost me Nike, I fired him")

by NCD on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 8:56am

NCD... That was published Dec. 6, 2017

The article reads:

Nike announced the five-floor store is closing next spring in preparation for Nike's new store, just five blocks down 5th Ave, in 2019.

It permanently closed last March.

Trust me.

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by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 2:56pm

Nike signed a five year contract with the Trump Organization for that spot in 2017 (estimated by Forbes to be worth 13 million annually), and the closing of the store won't affect that:

It’s not clear whether Nike’s lease with the Trump Organization, renewed for five years in mid-2017, mandates that the company keep paying rent despite having left the space. In other words, it’s not clear whether Nike still “pay[s] a lot of rent,” in Trump’s description.

Update: Actually, it is. Bloomberg reported in May that the company’s new landlord would cover its rent at Trump Tower, meaning that the Nike lease will still generate income for the Trump Organization — though not from Nike.

by barefooted on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 4:10pm

Good research.

...so Trump won't burn his Nikes...?

by NCD on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 4:14pm

Except the lease is grandfathered back to 1995, so Bad News Bears for Trump.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 4:16pm

Did you get that from the embedded link to the Bloomberg article? 'Cause it says:

Nike Inc. left Trump’s Manhattan building this year, but the apparel maker’s new landlords are covering its rent. That means the income Trump derives from the building is unchanged, and will be until at least 2022, when the lease is up for renewal.

The exit could be a boon. Nike signed its lease in 1995 and was paying well below current market rates. [...]

13 million annually is quite likely well below current, comparable rental spaces - but isn't chump change. And as they also note, the likelihood of Trump Tower attracting a new tenant at today's market value is slim to none, so to Trump, a fast and guaranteed nickle is much better than a slow and unlikely dime.

by barefooted on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 4:34pm

Just rest assured for anyone in *my* social set, this is all chump change - wouldn't even bat an eye at twice the price. But understand how others might be, er, a little less solvent. Shopping calls, anon!!!

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 5:21pm

If Trump is, in latest tweets, still going soft on Nike, posdibly no one told him it left?

Or perhaps even though they left, they still pay some early contract termination rent?

by NCD on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 4:11pm

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