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‘I’m done’: Colorado sporting goods store liquidates all Nike products

Bamby

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‘I’m done’: Colorado sporting goods store liquidates all Nike products in response to Kaepernick ad

The owner of a Colorado sporting goods store is putting his money where his mouth is.

In the face of Nike’s new ad campaign with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the owner of Prime Time Sports is “just doing it” and liquidating Nike products from his store.
“I’m done with Nike,” store owner Stephen Martin told Fox21 News. “I do not support it, I do not want to write any more checks to Nike. I’m done with them entirely.”

“All Nike 1/2 Price” and “Still Choosing to Stand, Just Doing It,” read the signs at the store located in the Chapel Hills Mall, KRDO reported. Martin is making the choice despite more than half of his inventory being NFL jerseys – all made by Nike.

Nike launched its ad with Kaepernick this week which declared:”Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything,” as part of its “Just Do It” 30th anniversary campaign. The announced contract with the former quarterback, who ignited a firestorm of controversy over his protests during the national anthem, divided fans and critics.

Martin called Nike “the mother of all harlots” in a letter to the company condemning the ad campaign. The store owner and son of a U.S. military veteran especially objected to their use of the phrase “sacrificed everything,” which he told Fox21 News “just inflamed me.”

“I don’t think he knows what it’s like to be a son holding back the tears for a dad at his grave site,” Martin said, pointing to pictures of fallen service members surrounding a copy of the note he sent to Nike posted on the store window.


“According to me, he has sacrificed a salary,” read the note posted on the window of Prime Time Sports. “Nothing compared to what every soul on our ‘Honor the Flag’ memorial wall that was built a few years ago has suffered and died for.”

Kaepernick’s “sacrifice” was his NFL salary as he remained a free agent following the 2016 protest and as he pursues a legal case against the NFL alleging the league conspired to keep him from getting signed by another team.

Taya Kyle, the widow of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, rebuked Nike for its ill-informed take on what “sacrifice” really means, slamming the company for celebrating someone who disrespected the American flag and the national anthem.


‘Sacrifice everything’? ‘American Sniper’ widow Taya Kyle jumps into the Nike fray, and has A LOT to say https://t.co/ZEWHp1TIrc pic.twitter.com/Xykd9Z4aSG

— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) September 6, 2018


Martin knows his decision to cut ties with Nike will cost him dearly.

“I’m pretty sure I won’t survive without them,” he told KKTV. “I gotta do what I gotta do. I’m just doing it.”

“Colin, you don’t know what sacrifice is,” Martin said after recounting his father-in-law’s experience as a POW. “You just don’t know what it is.”


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Doc

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Read Taya Kyle’s entire Facebook post below:


Nike, I love your gear, but you exhaust my spirit on this one. Your new ad with Colin Kapernick, I get the message, but that sacrificing everything thing…. It just doesn’t play out here. Sacrificing what exactly? A career? I’ve done that both times I chose to stay home and be with my kids instead of continuing my business climb… and it wasn’t sacrificing everything. It was sacrificing one career and some money and it was because of what I believe in and more importantly, who I believe in.

At best, that is all Colin sacrificed… some money and it’s debatable if he really lost his career over it. Maybe he sacrificed the respect of some people while he gained the respect of others. Or maybe he used one career to springboard himself into a different career when the first was waning. I don’t know.

What I do know is, he gained popularity and magazine covers he likely wouldn’t have gotten without getting on his knees or as you say, “believing in something.” I’m also thinking the irony is that while I am not privy to the numbers, it’s likely he gained a lucrative Nike contract. So yeah… that whole “sacrificing everything” is insulting to those who really have sacrificed everything.

You want to talk about someone in the NFL sacrificing everything? Pat Tillman. NFL STARTING, not benched, player who left to join the Army and died for it. THAT is sacrificing everything for something you believe in.

How about other warriors? Warriors who will not be on magazine covers, who will not get lucrative contracts and millions of followers from their actions and who have truly sacrificed everything. They did it because they believed in something.

Take it from me, when I say they sacrificed everything, they also sacrificed the lives of their loved ones who will never be the same. THAT is sacrificing everything for something they believe in.

Did you get us talking? Yeah, you did. But, your brand recognition was strong enough. Did you teach the next generation of consumers about true grit? Not that I can see.

Taking a stand, or rather a knee, against the flag which has covered the caskets of so many who actually did sacrifice everything for something they believe in, that we all believe in? Well, the irony of your ad..it almost leaves me speechless. Were you trying to be insulting?

Maybe you are banking on the fact we won’t take the time to see your lack of judgement in using words that just don’t fit. Maybe you are also banking on us not seeing Nike as kneeling before the flag.

Or maybe you want us to see you exactly that way. I don’t know. All I know is, I was actually in the market for some new kicks and at least for now, I’ve never been more grateful for Under Armour.”
 

FrancSevin

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Read Taya Kyle’s entire Facebook post below:

Nike, I love your gear, but you exhaust my spirit on this one. Your new ad with Colin Kapernick, I get the message, but that sacrificing everything thing…. It just doesn’t play out here. Sacrificing what exactly? A career? I’ve done that both times I chose to stay home and be with my kids instead of continuing my business climb… and it wasn’t sacrificing everything. It was sacrificing one career and some money and it was because of what I believe in and more importantly, who I believe in.

At best, that is all Colin sacrificed… some money and it’s debatable if he really lost his career over it. Maybe he sacrificed the respect of some people while he gained the respect of others. Or maybe he used one career to springboard himself into a different career when the first was waning. I don’t know.

What I do know is, he gained popularity and magazine covers he likely wouldn’t have gotten without getting on his knees or as you say, “believing in something.” I’m also thinking the irony is that while I am not privy to the numbers, it’s likely he gained a lucrative Nike contract. So yeah… that whole “sacrificing everything” is insulting to those who really have sacrificed everything.

You want to talk about someone in the NFL sacrificing everything? Pat Tillman. NFL STARTING, not benched, player who left to join the Army and died for it. THAT is sacrificing everything for something you believe in.

How about other warriors? Warriors who will not be on magazine covers, who will not get lucrative contracts and millions of followers from their actions and who have truly sacrificed everything. They did it because they believed in something.

Take it from me, when I say they sacrificed everything, they also sacrificed the lives of their loved ones who will never be the same. THAT is sacrificing everything for something they believe in.

Did you get us talking? Yeah, you did. But, your brand recognition was strong enough. Did you teach the next generation of consumers about true grit? Not that I can see.

Taking a stand, or rather a knee, against the flag which has covered the caskets of so many who actually did sacrifice everything for something they believe in, that we all believe in? Well, the irony of your ad..it almost leaves me speechless. Were you trying to be insulting?

Maybe you are banking on the fact we won’t take the time to see your lack of judgement in using words that just don’t fit. Maybe you are also banking on us not seeing Nike as kneeling before the flag.

Or maybe you want us to see you exactly that way. I don’t know. All I know is, I was actually in the market for some new kicks and at least for now, I’ve never been more grateful for Under Armour.”


Perfect

Bless you Kaya Kyle
 
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