Was just watching the Nike commercial on NBC...

[RNdaSilva]

Anyone remember Prefontaine?

The history of Nike?

[Naturyl]

1. Nike can go to hell. (n/t)

[jobycom]

5. Does Hell acknowledge Corporate Personhood?

:shrug:

[Naturyl]

8. Well, Hell is a Red State, so I'd imagine so. (n/t)

[ColbertWatcher]

2. There were two movies made about him in the same year ...

Without Limits and Prefontaine.

Personally, the difference in the movies was in who was cast to play Bowman. For Prefontaine it was Donald Sutherland, in Without Limits it was R. Lee Ermy. No offense to Ermy, but Sutherland was better.

[RNdaSilva]

3. Yep...

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Other than how some people in Oregon worship him, I know very little. n/t

[Sanctified]

6. It was an Oregon based Ad company that put that commercial together.

Yeah Prefontaine is pretty popular here in Oregon but so is running, biking and Nike.

[Greyhound]

7. The recent history of Nike has been one of extorting the state, county, and city (Beaverton),

out of paying the taxes (over $6 million in 2006, literally pocket change to that parasite Phil Night) they owe, and then "donating" $1.6 million to the schools and getting 10s of millions in free publicity for it. Meanwhile, if you ask nearly anybody that lives here, they will tell you how lucky we are to have this abomination, and the ~1500 jobs that come with it, here.

Of course, virtually none of these people know, or care, about the thousands of human beings laboring in ~550 sweatshops around the globe for subsistence wages in order to pay the executives of Nike the average of nearly $2,000,000 they steal from those people, nor will they ever mention the 12,000% mark up you pay for the honor of advertising their corporation every time you wear that blood-soaked apparel.

And yes, I know that there are companies far worse. We suck less is no justification.

I'm sure the commercial was just wonderful.
:dunce: