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Nike: No endorsement deal with Vick - NFL - Yahoo! Sports
How many 'second chances' you want to give the guy?
He's had his second, third and more chances. He's a sleazebag, end of story.
If Nike is going to sign Vicks, you can bet that they did a lot of market research to determine how their customers would respond to him. I've been reading the responses here and those of you that are opposed are men and women, age 30 - 50+ who play golf. You are a small segment of Nike's target demographics and not in the segment that Vicks would be speaking to. I'm sure Nike had negative responses in their research as well, but I would assume that Vicks tested positively with the majority of the respondents. This was not an arbitrary decision.
If Nike is going to sign Vicks, you can bet that they did a lot of market research to determine how their customers would respond to him. I've been reading the responses here and those of you that are opposed are men and women, age 30 - 50+ who play golf. You are a small segment of Nike's target demographics and not in the segment that Vicks would be speaking to. I'm sure Nike had negative responses in their research as well, but I would assume that Vicks tested positively with the majority of the respondents. This was not an arbitrary decision.
If you want to get real with it, weve been buying Nike stuff all this time knowing full-well that they willingly allow sweatshops exploiting the less fortunate to produce their products for the sake of cutting costs and now we want to jump on a moral high horse because they give endorsement money to an animal abuser. That seems absurd to me.
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Exactly.
Money and morality do not go hand in hand and "bottom lines" are far more important than feelings.
This is reality; this is Capitalism.
This is the fundamental reason why I cast such a jaundiced eye towards golf manufacturers who tell us all about how their products will help our golf games. The reality is that they'll tell us whatever we want to hear so long as it causes us to place our money into their pockets.
The only interest they have in our feelings is how they can manipulate them so that we'll buy their products because they really don't care about our golf games, they just want us to think they do.
And if telling us that the "Latest and Greatest" club, ball, bag, shoe or shirt will make us cool or sexy or shave strokes off of our games and make us all "winners", then that's what they'll say. Then after we've all dutifully swallowed the adspeak and stepped up to the register and paid the overinflated price for whatever it is that will make us feel better about ourselves, they take our money and laugh at us all the way to the bank.
Of course they do take a moment to remind us that an even better version will be out next year!
-JP
I mean Ray Lewis was involved in a double homicide but people tend to forget that.
How many 'second chances' you want to give the guy?
He's had his second, third and more chances. He's a sleazebag, end of story.