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A bad Nike commercial on so many levels

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Drip, Apr 8, 2010.

  1. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    Well, Piot... in case you haven't noticed, tats aren't my thing. :D But let's not go there, because I had to make tons of apologies last time.
     
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  2. Bodie_Broadus

    Bodie_Broadus Active Member

    I agree with all of you.

    I have a friend, who is a very, very religious person (if that matters at all) and holds marriage up as the greatest thing in the world. He thinks cheating on your spouse is absolutely the most abhorrent thing anyone can do.

    I don't think he is rational when it comes to his thinking on this matter.
     
  3. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Oh yeah, the guy who cheated you out of your life savings. :D
     
  4. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I would go as far as to say most (60 percent plus) married professional athletes have cheated on their spouses. But most athletes are not paid tens of millions to be the main spokesman for some of the biggest companies in the country/world.

    Also, when most athletes are caught, it's not in the news and it's a person, not a group of 14 people that includes escorts and porn stars.

    I like the commercial too. I think it's also Nike's way of saying to Tiger. "You fucked up. Don't do it again."
     
  5. farmerjerome

    farmerjerome Active Member

    I wouldn't have known it was Earl if someone hadn't told me.

    I abhor the thought of using his deceased father's voice in this context. It makes my skin crawl. But the commercial seemed so unnecessary. It just seemed like Nike had to do some type of commercial before they started doing the real Nike/Tiger competitive commercials and this is what they came up with.

    The funny thing is, if this trainwreck had never happened and they had used that soundbite if Tiger was in the middle of a slump or something -- maybe missed a one-foot putt to win it all on the 18th, I think it would have worked.

    Oh yeah, he looked nasty.
     
  6. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Still hard to fathom that golf has been associated with sex.
     
  7. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    I agree with this. But using the dead dad to do it seemed so shameless and manipulative. Not to mention that they're casting the guy who quite likely set the precedent for Tiger's misbehavior as the one righteously admonishing him for it. Yuck.

    There's got to be a better way to acknowledge it than that.
     
  8. Den1983

    Den1983 Active Member

    I really liked the commercial. Thought it was well done, creative, and got everyone talking, which is the point.

    Pretty damn good job by Nike.
     
  9. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    It was too big for them not to acknowledge. All things considered, I think they did a pretty good job.
     
  10. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    They should have used Tiki Barber for the voiceover.
     
  11. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I really wonder if the entire thing wasn't put together with stuff from the Nike vault. Pretty lame using Earl Woods totally out of context, unless he was a aware that his son was sowing his oats and recorded it on his death bed if he was ever found out.

    And anyone else think the ad brought back memories of another father lecturing his son long after his death:
    Jor-El: [in the Fortress of Solitude] You... enjoyed it.
    Superman: I don't know what to say, Father. I'm afraid I just got carried away.
    Jor-El: I anticipated this, my son. I...
    Superman: [surprised] You couldn't have! You couldn't have imagined...
    Jor-El: ...How good it felt.
    [Clark nods]
    Jor-El: You are revealed to the world. Very well, so be it. But you must still retain your secret identity.
    Superman: But why?
    Jor-El: The reasons are two. First, you cannot serve humanity twenty-eight hours a day.
    Superman: Twenty-four.
    Jor-El: Or twenty-four, as it is in Earth time. Your help would be called for endlessly, even for those problems which human beings could solve themselves. It is their habit to abuse their resources in such a way.
    Superman: And, second?
    Jor-El: Second, your enemies will discover that the only way to hurt you, will be by hurting the people you care for.
    Superman: Thank you, Father.
    Jor-El: Lastly... Do not punish yourself for your feelings of vanity. Simply learn to control them. It is an affliction common to all, even on Krypton. Our destruction could have been avoided had it not been for the vanity of some who considered us indestructible. Were it not for vanity, why... at this very moment...
    [sadly]
    Jor-El: I could embrace you in my arms. My son.
    [Kal-El reaches yearningly toward his father's image; Jor-El fades, leaving Kal-El alone]
     
  12. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    Nicely done, sir.

    Plus, as a kid, I always thought Margot Kidder was a hottie. :)
     
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