The opening day has finally arrived for many of us who are football fans. However, if there was hope to have a season without the highly divisive anthem controversy, those hopes were dashed as the NFL officially announced that it would go forward on its policy against protests during the anthem. Further fueling the controversy will be Nike’s campaign featuring “Just Do It” ad, narrated by Colin Kaepernick. Nike is referencing Kaepenick’s stand as an example of courage despite the opposition of many football fans. I have previously written about the legal aspects of these protests.
Update: The Dolphins led the protests today with players kneeling during the anthem.
It is fascinating to see a publicly traded company like Nike intentionally steer its products into a controversy that has reportedly cost the NFL so dearly. Even if ten percent of its customers avoid Nike products, the cost would be huge unless the gamble succeeds in attracting newer, younger customers. This is an unconventional and risky move in an field with close competitors which will not be associated with the protests. The move also likely alienates the NFL management, which hardly welcomes a national commercial campaign viewed as celebrating the protests. Nike shares slide downward with its new campaign, though it is still unclear if the move will pay off. A promising indicator is a 30 percent jump in online sales for Nike after the start of the campaign.
For its part, the NFL has thrown up its hands and just said that they could not get people to agree. Thus, this season could be like the last, though ESPN has decided to cut away from the anthem entirely while some networks have been previously accused of intentionally not showing the kneeling or fan objections to the protests. The NFL seems incapable of simply taking a stand with a single coherent position under Roger Goodell — one way or the other. In so doing, it has remained exposed on all sides — rather than simply allow or disallow protests during the games.
In the meantime, I am looking forward to watching my newly revamped Bears go up against our historic rivals the Packers with the highest paid offensive player (Rodgers) going head to head with the highest paid defensive player (Mack). Perhaps they will collide and simply merge into a single roughly $300 million player capable of playing entirely alone.
As usual, most of us are locked out of the games by the NFL’s ridiculous deal with DirectTV, which imposes a prohibitive cost on fans. Unlike the MLB which offers games at a fair price, the NFL under Roger Goodell have made it prohibitively expensive for most fans to watch out of market games. The owners are clearly supportive of Goodell’s record fleecing fans at every opportunity despite declining ratings. Between the protests and continued abuse of fans, the NFL facing a a long-term problem in maintaining its base of support. Every year I write about the short sighted treatment of streaming services and out-of-market packages. If the NFL simply offered a more reasonable package for fans to watch just the 16 games of their chosen team (as does the MLB), it might actually see rising viewerships. Instead, the owners have conveyed nothing but contempt for the fans, including the renewal of the contract of the least popular Commissioner in the history of the sport.
Of course the hypocrites that loved Tim Tebow taking a knee now hate Kaepernick for taking a knee.
Tim Tebow was skewered by the media. Now you understand how bad media bias is.
The only real bias the corporate-owned media has is against anything coming from any direction that threatens to break the stranglehold crony capitalism has on the working class foundation of this country.
That bias was particularly on shameful display when the loss of the immense talent and selfless integrity of the late, great Ed Schultz was all but ignored by everyone other than the posse of unfettered purveyors of truth he inspired.
Very true Anonymous. Ed Schultz had to go – one tipping point was that he kept on and on about the TPP. So goodbye Ed and hello corporate shill Rachel Maddow. I was glad that RT gave him a slot and his devoted audience was still able to see his insightful shows.
It’s the height of irony that the journalistic freedom at RT has drawn the finest US reporters away from the overbearing atmosphere at major networks at a time when anything “Russian” is being portrayed as more culpable for our botched electoral system than the top insiders who were actually caught meddling red-handed. Authentic reporters won’t play that BS game.
— The true cause of Ed Schultz’ departure from MSNBC was his brave refusal to stay silent when a network bigwig suddenly nixed all coverage of Bernie Sanders’ much-anticipated and massively attended campaign announcement and instead turned to a musical number taking place at one of Trump’s more uneventful stops on his vanity tour.
He wasn’t conducting a protest you moron.
Kaepernick and Obama were both raised by white people. I guess the 2 of them had terrible upbringings. Kaepernick evidently has turned on the culture that raised him. And Obama referred to is white grand parents as “Typical White People”. I wonder where both of them would have been without ” Typical White People”?
Ind. Bob………Obama is as white as he is black, biologically. I believe Colin is too. It’s not mentally healthy to deny, and have complete disdain for, who you are, racially.
Neither Kaepernick or Obama are showing disdain for their mixed heritage by believing that black lives shouldn’t matter any less than those who are pale in comparison.
No one said that black lives matter less, but the people who actually believe that are the blacks in South Chicago.
They hate themselves and their own race. Pathetic.
Cindy, Obama first represented one of the worst districts in South Chicago. AS I said not long ago a writer interviewing people living in that district asked a black person if Obama ever helped any of the people he represented. His response was yes, he helped one black person leave and go to the White House.
Allan, have you ever been to Chicago..??? Obama’s neighborhood was Hyde Park, home to the University of Chicago. That’s actually one of the South Side’s nicest neighborhoods. It occupies a choice spot on Lake Michigan’s south shore.
You’re just a stupid old fart who rarely knows what he’s talking about.
Peter Shill you know very little and have a very swollen head. Obama lived in Hyde Park-Kensington in an upscale area whether or not that was in the 13th district at the time I don’t know but when he represented the thirteenth district as a State Senator in 1996 the district to the best of my knowledge was drawn along Chicago’s South Side from Hyde Park-Kenwood south to the South Shore and west to Chicago Lawn. I believe since then redistricting occurred.
Allan, the Obamas lived in a residential complex just this side of a gated community. Steven Sailer (a Chicago refugee) has written about the granular features of that particular neighborhood.
Obama’s connection to the domestic black population is that he married into it. His grandfather’s checker-playing hookah smoking chum, Frank Marshall Davis was a most eccentric specimen. Valerie Jarrett and her chums (who are the core of the Obamas’ circle of friends) are out of the mulattish old money patriciate in the black population and culturally distinct from most bourgeois blacks (much less rank and file blacks). The closest he gets to a normal-range black person is his mother-in-law.
Spastic, are you saying that upwardly mobile “mulattos’ are people to despise? It sure sounds like it! Like any Black with light skin who speaks standard English is someone to hate.
That was Obama’s ‘White’ grandfather who hung with Frank Marshall. So ‘what’..?? Like somehow that link makes Obama a ‘communist’..?? How stupid!!
Regarding Obama’s ‘gated community’, Hyde Park was upscale 100 years ago. But in the last 60 years, most of the South Side has not done as well as the more prosperous North Side. For that reason the University of Chicago has a large campus police force that makes Hyde Park relatively safe in relation to surrounding communities.
Spastic, are you saying
I can never figure out if your motor is stupidity or viciousness. What I said is perfectly plain to someone with normal-range reading comprehension, who could see that the only evaluative statement incorporated within it was the word ‘eccentric’, which is a sociological judgment, not a normative one.
Spastic, every comment you post is self-righteous indignation OR snotty dismissiveness. So more often than not I have to ask what ‘really’ meant.
Peter, you should recognize that the way you talk makes you you sound somewhat like a racist. You place too much emphasis on race when you should be placing it on results. Obama was a failure in all aspects even though some of his general ideas were in the right direction. Though I didn’t vote for him I thought at the time he was in the right place and time to have become a great president. Unfortuantely his race-baiting, weaponizing the bureaucracy and desire to put America down will make him into an historical loser.
DSS, I understand that Obama never really lived with those he promised to help, but I think my discription of the 13th district at the time is correct.
In any event he was a community organizer in the poor areas of South Chicago and made it to the Presidency. So far I haven’t seen much good that he did but I did but I do note that under Trump black and hispanic unemployment has fallen to new lows.
Peter is a blind supporter of the left who knows very little.
Allan, even if Obama didn’t live in the poorest neighborhoods, the fact that he went door-to-door, meeting the residents of poor neighborhoods, and registering them to vote, shows that he made a good faith effort to understand their needs. Not many politicians have that kind of background.
Yet Republicans sneer at Obama’s experience as a Community Organizer. Like interacting with the poor is a ridiculous waste of time! If Republicans had more politicians with that kind of background, they wouldn’t be rubber-stamping every tax cut for the rich.
shows that he made a good faith effort to understand their needs.
What’s missing on the South Side and on the West Side (and in Gary and East Chicago) is a modicum of public order. There is no indication that Obama ever took much interest in law enforcement, nor much that he took an interest in school discipline so long as his own children were removed from the fray. How ’bout the effect of property taxes on the built environment? How ’bout the effect of open-ended doles, means-testing, and minimum wage levels on labor force participation?
Where’s the documented proof that Obama didn’t care about law enforcement??? And where do you get off in presenting that with such indignation??? Like it’s a proven fact Obama didn’t care about cops??? And why is Obama responsible for all of Chicago’s problems???
Spastic, it’s all just self-righteous nonsense. That is increasingly to tone of all your comments.
He was in the state legislature for eight years. Show me the sponsored legislation, the white papers, the position papers.
What we do know is that not one prominent Democrat has called a spade a spade in re Black Lives Matter &c, even though it’s all rubbish and the effect of this sort of thing is disastrous to rank-and-file blacks, something you can see for yourself by examining the homicide statistics for Baltimore and Chicago over the last five years.
Like interacting with the poor is a ridiculous waste of time! I
Front line supervisors ‘interact’ with ‘the poor’ all the time. And, I’ll bet you if you unpacked it, you’d discover front-line supervisors are (ceteris paribus) typically Republicans.
The question about social work is always thus: what does it accomplish other than providing employment for social workers?
” the fact that he went door-to-door, meeting the residents of poor neighborhoods, and registering them to vote, shows that he made a good faith effort to understand their needs.”
That is what community organizers do. Obama knew how to destroy institutions. He had no experience or ability in building them. Tell us how he secured children and their families from the ravages of the gangs and drugs.
You can’t because that was not his focus.
A generation ago, Morton Kondracke wrote an article on debates over drug policy and he interviewed a wonk who was opposed to any kind of legalization. Kondracke asked him about the source of the polarities in the debate, and he had a disarmingly simple interpretation of that over which people argued at the time: “Liberals want to give people things….”.
To demand people respect authoritative norms is anathema to the liberal mentality. Regulated coercion is anathema. Treating people as agents rather than clients is anathema.
““Liberals want to give people things….”.”
I don’t think Kondracke was unique in saying that. What does one do if one can’t build or create? One acts as an intermediary transferring around what others have created or they steal. The Liberals have spent a lot of time creating a philosophy that justifies the stealing of wealth while demeaning its creation.
Kondracke didn’t say that, his interlocutor did. I think you’ve also confounded the liberals of 1988 with the liberals of today, who are far less interested in strictly economic questions (and fairly thick on the ground in management in certain industrial sectors – casino banking, media, and tech).
In any event the statement has been repeated in one form or another many times, but it makes better sense that someone else made the statement..
” I think you’ve also confounded the liberals of 1988 with the liberals of today,”
Did you mean conflate rather than confound? If so what in particular gave you that idea? The Liberals of today have taken a gigantic leap so I don’t know where you are coming from.
“I think you’ve also confounded the liberals of 1988 with the liberals of today”
Did you confuse conflate with confound? In specific what makes you think that? I certainly recognize the difference.
In any event it makes more sense that it was not Kondracke who made that statement.
Allan LOL
Allan……..LOL..that’s a good one.
IB
‘Kaepernick evidently has turned on the culture that raised him.’
Your racial bias and bigotry ooze out of your comments. The only culture in America is American; that includes all races, religions, etc. as long as they include all races, religions, etc.
If you look hard enough you can make a divisive remark of just about anything. You seem to have your eyeglass out.
Nike had a 30% up tick in internet sales after releasing the add. We’ll see how long that last.
NFL- Not For Long!
I saw the Nike ad and was horrified to see Linda Sansour in the background. She has just tweeted that Jews should not be treated as human. This is what Nike thinks is great?
It’s Sarsour. Paul, unfortunately well balanced, all inclusive, level headed people don’t get much press. Sarsour is an attention getter, basing her argument on valid issues. However, without the extremist, racists, nut job accoutrements, she would get little press. She brings in the fringe, who tend to be the most vocal even if they are the least populous. This seems to be the modus operandi of more and more politicians or so called representatives of what’s really going on. Now, you knew this was coming; take Trump for an example. If it weren’t for the hate and targeting that he threaded through his blather, he would not have had the support to shame America this way. Sarsour shames the Israel/Palestinian problem by shaming Palestinians.
In the end, after the vitriol has subsided, after one steps back and takes a long hard and consistent accounting of the problem, Israel’s main objective all along has been to dissolve the problem through attrition and claim the entire area, as per their historical authority, which is the basis of their religion and being. Israel has masked this intent with bogus offers either dependent on ‘we’ll see’ or ‘stop attacking us and then we’ll see’, or any version of this. In the end, the Israeli boot is at the throat of the Palestinian and will continue pressing until the problem goes away. The problem has been going away through the assimilation of Palestinians into Israeli society-albeit without the full advantages of the Israeli Jew, the emigration of Palestinians to surrounding countries and other countries to live in camps or to gain professions via wealthy Arab financial assistance, etc. When a Palestinian ‘sells’ his farm to a kibbutz it’s not freely; it’s simply because to take the money and leave is better than staying and being bulldozed.
This is easily seen, not simply through the tenacity of this people who have persisted and existed for so long in spite of the horrific mistreatment they have endured, but through human history in almost all cases. Europe took the Western Hemisphere this way. The Jews do it, Arabs do it, Russians do it, Americans do it, Britain did it, France tried to do it, etc. This is nature’s way. However, nature only exists through nurture.
Paul, are you talking about the picture at 18 seconds in or elsewhere? If at 18 seconds I don’t think that is Sarsour. It is hard to tell because this type of picture is often altered. Sarsour is a racist and her beliefs are anti woman but she is very convincing to a lot of stupid people.
She said this about two prominent women: ““I wish I could take their vaginas away — they don’t deserve to be women,” She is a conspiracy theorist and tweeted: “Underwear bomber was the #CIA all along. Why did I already know that?! Shame on us – scaring the American people.” She is the type of trash the left looks up to.
Allan – it is either her or her identical twin. I have a 70″ tv so she was magnified as large as I could get her. 😉
I don’t know Paul. I looked at the advertisement on my cell phone so in this case yours is bigger than mine, the picture that is. If that was Linda Sarsour then I think it was stupid of Nike. It would have been unecessary to take such a risk. One shouldn’t double down in that fashion on something so edgy.
Does anyone know?
Afraid not Allan
The ‘left’ doesn’t look up to Sarsour; just as the ‘right’ doesn’t look up to Alex Jones. Only those hopeless individuals who inhabit the fringe, way out there, the disgusting sorts, look up to this sort. The telling element of this fringe is that whether or not they try to make themselves connected to the ‘left’ or ‘right’; they are joined at the hip to each other. Some of your comments on the ‘left’ place you on that same fringe.
She was one of the leaders of the women’s march. She has activated leftists all over the place and unlike Alex Jones isn’t pushed away by the mainstream left..
If you find comments of mine on the fringe perhaps you should observe where you are standing.
Issac, the above reply (“She was one…”) was from Allan.
The police should refuse to answer any 9-11 calls coming from Colin’s residence and cell phone.
Colin would be better off if the police followed your suggestion, Cindy.
Most kids I see wearing sneakers sport Adidas or Vans.
Just boycott it.
The left loves the burning of our flag. They love watching millionaires kneel during the anthem. They love watching their brethren- clad in the marxist colors of red and black- use violence to deny others their right to peaceably assemble and speak. They love the total censorship of conservative voices by the our monopolistic corporate overlords. They love the attempted coup that has been going on for two years now. The death of our President would cause them to smile. We live in a very interesting and dangerous time.
Nike’s PR dept has sensed the epiphany sweeping the nation as more people grasp the true depths of racially targeted brutality and the sad fact that it’s blatantly crowed about in our anthem with the repulsive line: “No refuge could save the hireling and slave,” penned by a plantation owner who relished the death of slaves who escaped and fought alongside British abolitionists.
halvie54
You don’t mind living on stolen land that was sacred to the murdered indigenous here, so take that log out of your own eye.
Cindy, I very much mind living on stolen land, particularly since it’s theft will ultimately lead to its destruction if it’s not taken back.
My point is we should live in the present, accept our history, and move on. Critical thinker and black conservative Shelby Steele is not happy with BLM and other silly black liberals destroying historic statues and trying to wipe our past. He said “the history of Western Civilization is MY history, too, and I want to learn about it!”
In no way should this nation’s historical theft of land, labor and liberty be ignored. It should be roundly ridiculed until those who defend it wake up.
The thieves, as you call them, are all dead. What should we do dig ’em up and hang ’em? You guys are such pretensions moralizers with not one solution except fight the power.
The “sacrificing everything” does not seem to include the $millions of dollars that Kaepernick is likely to rake in for his deal with Nike.
The kneeling stunt may prove more profitable to him that what he could have made as an NFL player.
“Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.” – Dean Rusk. NFL pledged $90 million or so last year to some social justice fund and failed in return to get an agreement from players union to stop kneeling. Player-friendly NBA commissioner Stern picked a lane before start of last season (no kneeling) and players abided. Roger Goodfornothing is now going into start of third season without any decisive action. In the immortal words of Tony Soprano, when you see a business problem developing – “you got to nip it”. High praise for Turley for calling out emperor not wearing clothes.
I agree with Nike.
Peter/Peter Hill: My guess is that you agree Nike due to your default setting to resist Trump. You all don’t get that Trump is outfoxing you on this issue and is counting on default to resistance response from the left on an issue that he knows is a winner for him (check any polls on appropriateness of knelling during anthem).
That ‘Peter’ above isn’t me. And that’s not the symbol that Turley’s robot assigns to me.
Of course you agree with Nike, Peter. Why and the results of that policy are what you don’t know.
Allan, Peter is just defaulting to his resist Trump default setting. He probably has not bothered give it much that beyond his anti-Trump inclination.
Every thing was hunky dory with this guy up to the point that he was being benched and replaced. He will be benched and replaced by Nike as well then let’s see what his b*^#% will be. As for the rest of the kneelers you should be kissing our flag for the opportunity and MONEY you earn for playing a game.
NFL? I keep hearing those initials. What the heck to they stand for? No Fricken Luck?
It certainly doesn’t stand for any sporting event. I mean really, how can you call something a sport where they put 1 hour on the clock and say play ball. But the ball only moves for 3 minutes of those 60? Please,
In total agreement. I stopped watching American Football because of the increasing distance of athletics, sport, action, and movement from the sport. The game is designed around commercials. Players rarely play more than two or three plays before being exchanged with another to take a rest. There is less and less improvising and immediate interplay between teams-Jax Jaguars losing to NE illustrated that graphically. The game is more reminiscent of a time that no longer exists.
Now, watch a Rugby game if you want to see athletes play a similar game. Almost non stop, no pads, constant improvising, and above all over all talent. American Football teams include dangerously overweight players as well as bodies in prime condition. However, for endurance and fitness, watch a Rugby game.
American Football is like a war-game that includes soldiers, tanks, artillery, etc. So is Rugby but with one huge advantage, the game is almost always playing.
PROTESTS MIGHT HAVE FADED OUT.. UNTIL TRUMP GOT INVOLVED
I think at this point the protests are essentially anti-Trump in nature. Had Trump kept his mouth shut, and never popped-off about the protests, they might have fizzled out before Thanksgiving of last season. But simply ‘because’ Trump represents everything wrong with America, his attacks gave the protests a whole new lease on life.
” But simply ‘because’ Trump represents everything wrong with America,”
What foolishness. In essence Peter Shill is saying that full employment and higher wages is bad for America.
Very nice. You act as if the buffoonish day glo bozo had anything to do with your limited scale. Character matters. Morality is not relative. What is that ticking sound?
this is to “ya, he’s a liar and maybe a traitor, but this is all hannity told me about” allan / allen
Mark M. your recent failures of debate have been noted. I think you are wise to go back to this former self of yours that says nothing a dumb person couldn’t say. At least it gets you out of that boring appellate work. …And by the way get rid of that vest you purchased so inexpensively. It used to be owned by a suicide bomber.
Colin Kaepernick starts this inane controversy and somehow it’s Trump’s fault.
Don’t expect much from Peter Shill. Shill believes that dressing pigs up in cop uniforms is a good thing.
Let’s not Make America Gullible Again.
Trump’s dumbfounding claim that he’s brought about “full employment and higher wages” has the substance of wet cotton candy.
“Trump’s dumbfounding claim that he’s brought about “full employment and higher wages” has the substance of wet cotton candy.”
It seems another Alias that has been here is here again. I cannot help it if some do not understand economics, are unable to read the metrics that demonstrate how good a job Trump is doing. Economically Trump is doing fantastic. All one has to do is look at the metrics of success and compare them to prior years. It then becomes totally clear except for those that are ignorant with regard to policy.
Ex President Obama never understood economics so now he is on the campaign trail saying it was his success. I have one thing to say to Obama, You didn’t build that success but you did create a lot of destruction and losses for the Average American.
Those who believe Trump’s fairy tales need to drag themselves off their cozy cushions and walk among the nation’s burgeoning peasant class for a spell.
Start by looking at the U 6 brought up countless of times. Do letists forget everything come midnight and start anew the next morning? Why does their DNA boot their brains up every morning with the same garbage?
Anon. The biggest fairy tale, and longest running political lie, in Amerca: the Democrats will help the black community, through jobs creation, revitalize their neighborhoods, and save them from chronic poverty.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/august-consumer-confidence.html
“Consumer confidence rose in August to its highest level since October 2000, building on July’s solid result.”
It’s clear that hardworking folks who are paid too little to be active consumers aren’t being studied as thoroughly as the unscrupulous businesses who gleefully toss crumbs to the laborers who produce profit.
The hardworking folk that you seem to refer to have seen their disposable incomes rise.
Nike may be missing out on another great marketing opportunity.
With the Kaepernick endorsement, Nike could sell a line of socks like the ones Kaepernick wore depicting police as pigs.
Given that Nike decided to team up with such a classy civil rights icon😒😞 like this jobless QB, why not bring out the whole line of Kaepernick apparel.
Nike can get rather edgy, but that is a risk (socks) I don’t think they would take. They got a lot of milage with the advertisement. Going viral is something desireable for promoting one’s name. I don’t think this will hurt Nike in the short to long term and might even help their bottom line though another edgy advertisement might have had better mid to long term affects. I feel that act creates a risk to those risk averse purchasers of stock who might always remember that advertisement as a potential negative.
Allan,
Of course it’s a risk that Nike won’t take.
Might tarnish their image, and the image of Kaepernick as some sort of great civil right crusader that they’ve decided to promote.
PH, the NFL needs ago to person for politics like Fox’s NFL coverage goes to Mike Pereira for detailed rulings.Explain the circumstances, explain both sides of the argument and how it effects the game itself.
One, move on. Opening kick off and were good.
The NFL protests help Trump and damage the left- hating America is not a good look. That’s why he wants it to go on and on. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. The on-going collapse in ratings is a beautiful thing to see.
Politics is entertainment. Entertainment is politics.
So said a small publisher a couple of weeks ago on Book TV and he said this explains why reporters have had trouble writing about Trump
I only heard about “Ubu Roi” or “King Ubu” a few weeks ago when reading a novel.
My hunch is that few readers here know about the play that caused a sensation in Paris and opened and closed on the same day, December 10, 1896.
From Wikipedia “It is considered a wild, bizarre and comic play, significant for the way it overturns cultural rules, norms, and conventions. For those who were in the audience on that night to witness the response, including W. B. Yeats, it seemed an event of revolutionary importance. It is now seen by some to have opened the door for what became known as modernism in the twentieth century.[3] It is a precursor to Dada, Surrealism and the Theatre of the Absurd. It is the first of three stylised burlesques in which Jarry satirises power, greed, and their evil practices—in particular the propensity of the complacent bourgeoisie to abuse the authority engendered by success.”
So our great cultural event, Football, has been interrupted by reminding us of our raciest past.
I am reminded of the play sometimes called “King Turd” in a review article that came out today in the LA Review of Books. The French Polymath, Bruno Latour, compares Trump to Ubu Roi. Trump has an explicit climate policy: denial. There is now a race between climate collapse and billionaires grabbing all they can as they flee to the country you might not have heard of, the off shore, not of this earth, the land of billionaires.
“Latour’s point is that crises of migration, inequality, and environment are linked by a politics of denial: we finally have an environmentally based politics, but it’s one of negation, symbolized by the erstwhile EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt’s extraordinary soundproof phone booth.”
I recommend the LA Review of Books article
“No More EasyJet: On Bruno Latour’s “Où atterrir?
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-more-easyjet-on-bruno-latours-ou-atterrir/
Don Utter – I have read Ubi Roi and have a copy somewhere in my collection in the storage shed. Trump is nothing like Ubi Roi, however Obama was and still is.
Professor Turley writes: ” I am looking forward to watching my newly revamped Bears go up against our historic rivals the Packers…” and later on writes” : Every year I write about the short sighted treatment of streaming services and out-of-market packages. …”.
Turley should recognize that Actions speak louder than words.
The ad is amazing. The only reason the kneeling is controversial is because the President made it so and many decided to weigh in. He got the controversy he was seeking. Ignore his tweets and maybe we can start hearing each other again.
Well, short term bump in sales.
“Nike enjoys 31 percent bump in online sales after debut of Kaepernick campaign”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-nike-online-sales-kaepernick-campaign-20180908-story.html
That’s online sales, which represent a single-digit share of Nike’s total sales and consists largely of people buying replacement pairs.
One wag suggested that Nike’s marketing department is playing to its foreign market, very few of whom buy sneakers to play American football but very many of whom despise the United States. If that’s so, scroom.