This is perhaps where Kaepernick got the idea to disrespect the flag...not to mention, politicizing an all American sport.

WHERE DID THE HATRED FOR THE FLAG START?

EVER WONDER WHERE
COLIN KAEPERNICK GOT HIS IDEA TO KNEEL AND DISRESPECT THE
FLAG?
DO NOT ADD A SINGLE
WORD , but just pass it
on.
Code,
Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec.
171...
During
rendition of the national anthem, when the flag
is displayed, all present (except those in
uniform) are expected to stand at attention
facing the flag with the right hand over the
heart. Or, at the very least, "Stand and Face
It".

Senator
Obama replied :
"As
I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be
perceived as taking sides." "There are a lot of
people in the world to whom the American flag is
a symbol of oppression..." "The anthem itself
conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs
bursting in air and all that sort of
thing."
Obama
continued: "The National Anthem should be
'swapped' for something less parochial and less
bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach
the World To Sing'. If that were our anthem,
then, I might salute it. In my opinion, we
should consider reinventing our National Anthem
as well as 'redesign' our Flag to better offer
our enemies hope and love. It’s
my intention, if elected, to disarm
America to
the level of acceptance to our Middle East
Brethren. If we,as a Nation of warring people,
conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam,
where peace prevails, perhaps a state or period
of mutual accord could exist between our
governments".
When
I Become President, I will seek a pact of
agreement to end hostilities between those who
have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a
freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We
as a Nation, have placed upon the nations of
Islam, an unfair injustice which
is WHY my wife disrespects the
Flag
and
she and I have attended several flag burning
ceremonies in the
past".

"Of
course now,
I
have found myself about to become The President
of the United States and I have put my hatred
aside . I
will use my power to bring CHANGE to this
Nation, and offer the people a new
path . My
wife and I look forward to becoming our
Country's First black Family.
Indeed , CHANGE
is about to overwhelm the United States of
America."
Yes, you
read it
right.

Guess they have changed their motto to: Socialism - Just Do it

Never bought any overpriced rubbish from the comrades at Nikovich.
Now they can be certain I never will.

"Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly."
- PT Barnum

"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money."
- W. C. Fields

They are halving their customer base. Hopefully for them, they figure that the millenials and other liberals will still buy their stuff. There are other shoe mfrs and we dont HAVE to patronize Nike.

Down with Kaepernick forever.

Nike is stupid to pay him millions

Should I be asked on the street by a man with a mic about what's my take on one Colin Capernick, I would call to everyone's mind those socks he wore with pigs as cops all over them.
Nike must like those socks, too.

That is just strange...

I once boycotted Nike for over a decade. It started when Tiger won the Masters and they had an ad with him saying there were still courses where he couldn't play. He was already worth probably $100M and could play wherever he wanted. I thought it was in very poor taste. This tastes very similar.

And another thing... Just this weekend, as I often do watching golf, I noticed a really nice golf shirt on one of the PGA players and thought, "Hmmm, I'll pick one of those up." Nope. Not now. Oakley and Peter Millar for me...still.

I'd like to think the executives value liberty, but a bigger motivation is that we the consumers do. This is just a reminder that despite the very serious setbacks, people value freedom. Liberty is mainstream value that brands want to be associated with. It makes me more keen to replace my old exercise shirts with Nike.

how do you spell hypocrite....Nike...or Kaepernick...

There are already some great viral memes spreading against these ads. Here's one:
http://minx.cc:1080/?post=376926

Mmmm, look at the hashtag he's using (#JustdoIt). I believe it's missing a vowel. #Just a doIt. just saying.

No problem boycotting Nike. Thanks for letting us know!

I assume "Just Do It" goes for boycotting Nike too. Or is it part of only one way allowed? They're allowed to take a knee, and I'm not allowed to boycott them. President Trump's reelection will tell us the future direction of this country and perhaps even teach big business to stay out of politics.

Using (paying) a well-known sports figure to be a salesman for a product line is the height of pragmatism. The athlete thus flattered and bribed is likewise doing it pragmatically, for both the money and the propaganda advantage, sugarcoating it with political idealism. And as long as people get swept up in it, such devices work. Mob mentality, group solidarity, showbiz appeal, marketing savvy... emotional manipulation short-circuits reason and rational ethics. Feel, don't think. Pervert old symbols to new uses. "Taking a knee" used to symbolize worship and obedience. With enough publicity it can mean resistance and revolution. It's a funny, funny, funny world.

I've never owned a Nike product, not for boycott reasons but just because I don't wear those kinds of things. All you boys probably live in them.

Hey, would you like to buy a garment with pictures of my products on them? Tanktops for women, no politics involved. Or is avoiding politics a political statement in itself?

I hope Dick's carries Nike. Another nail in their coffin.

It’s hard to believe that alienating half of the country will increase shoe sales. Doesn’t Nike manufacture most of their stuff in China, Vietnam, and other communist sweatshops?

Kneel for that, please....

I will now disrespect many of those on this forum because I will disagree with your feelings or beliefs. Disrespect implies a disregard for the feelings or beliefs of some individuals. Any disrespect shown with respect to the flag (which one of them?) has to be due with it somehow having consciousness, which it does not, as the flag being a concept is some minds which cannot feel harmed by being dis-ed. Nearly every USA flag is a replica of the national flag at the Capital of the United States and cannot be called "The flag". Those flags should be considered as disrespecting The Flag since the millions of them degrades the concept of "The Flag". As does the little replicas on the Fourth of July that end up trampled, sent to land fills, and otherwise discarded. One should revere the First Amendment and its protections for speech, religion, press, petition, and assembly and not get bent out of shape when some individuals do not follow some idiotic pretended patriot law which the USA got along without for a century and a half.
So unbend those out of shaped minds and and find something more worrisome to occupy your times.