I will now disrespect many of those on this forum because I will disagree with your feelings or beliefs. Disrespect implies a disregard for the feelings or beliefs of some individuals. Any disrespect shown with respect to the flag (which one of them?) has to be due with it somehow having consciousness, which it does not, as the flag being a concept is some minds which cannot feel harmed by being dis-ed. Nearly every USA flag is a replica of the national flag at the Capital of the United States and cannot be called "The flag". Those flags should be considered as disrespecting The Flag since the millions of them degrades the concept of "The Flag". As does the little replicas on the Fourth of July that end up trampled, sent to land fills, and otherwise discarded. One should revere the First Amendment and its protections for speech, religion, press, petition, and assembly and not get bent out of shape when some individuals do not follow some idiotic pretended patriot law which the USA got along without for a century and a half.
So unbend those out of shaped minds and and find something more worrisome to occupy your times.

They "Just Did IT!"...

Good one.

how do you spell hypocrite....Nike...or Kaepernick...

Try the shark brand from Greg Norman very comfortable.
Tiger has played courses I couldn't dream of playing... And I never will get to..... for twenty five years or longer. He should be praising the equality and opportunity in the USA .singing look at the success you can have.

Agree 100%
There is a time and a place for everything. There is no reason these players couldn't use their fame off the field to make their statements.
They are played to play a game. Play the game and keep your opinions to yourself. If you don't like that arrangement get a job for crap pay and work.

Taking a knee during the National Anthem is far more a show of contempt toward servicemen, veterans and American warriors who were wounded or killed in action throughout this country's history.
I was a corrections officer for 21 years and I first hand observed that a bully with a badge was not into racism but into having power over others.
The closest me dino came to getting killed was rescuing a bully with a badge who got beat up after being sucker punched.
The bully with a badger deserved what he got. I didn't.

There are already some great viral memes spreading against these ads. Here's one:
http://minx.cc:1080/?post=376926

Some cops deserve it. There needs to be serious change, including an end to all forms of immunity for cops who violate someone's rights or use unnecessary force.

But it's stupid to try to link that problem with race.

You would think so. But just like all those political polls- they never ask anyone I know. And my kids are into sports and know all about it.

One would think they tested for people’s reactions before they did it

Parents used to buy the stuff too. Signing the douche with the swoosh certainly isn't going to motivate my ex-nfl fan friends and I to purchase the overpriced sweat shop apparel any longer. Hope there's enough woke hipsters and youngsters with big allowences to justify their leftist showboating.

Mmmm, look at the hashtag he's using (#JustdoIt). I believe it's missing a vowel. #Just a doIt. just saying.

No problem boycotting Nike. Thanks for letting us know!

LOL, a lady who has probably heard them all. Maybe Nike would like to make an ad with Caper**ick saying the "F" word while taking a knee with the National Anthem playing in the background. That should help sales.

After me dino wrote the above, I read something that reminded me that Capernick likes to say "F the police."
Nike must fully agree with that also.
Guess what I'd like to say about Nike? Oops, never mind. I'm talking to a lady.

I assume "Just Do It" goes for boycotting Nike too. Or is it part of only one way allowed? They're allowed to take a knee, and I'm not allowed to boycott them. President Trump's reelection will tell us the future direction of this country and perhaps even teach big business to stay out of politics.

Using (paying) a well-known sports figure to be a salesman for a product line is the height of pragmatism. The athlete thus flattered and bribed is likewise doing it pragmatically, for both the money and the propaganda advantage, sugarcoating it with political idealism. And as long as people get swept up in it, such devices work. Mob mentality, group solidarity, showbiz appeal, marketing savvy... emotional manipulation short-circuits reason and rational ethics. Feel, don't think. Pervert old symbols to new uses. "Taking a knee" used to symbolize worship and obedience. With enough publicity it can mean resistance and revolution. It's a funny, funny, funny world.

I've never owned a Nike product, not for boycott reasons but just because I don't wear those kinds of things. All you boys probably live in them.

Hey, would you like to buy a garment with pictures of my products on them? Tanktops for women, no politics involved. Or is avoiding politics a political statement in itself?

I hope Dick's carries Nike. Another nail in their coffin.

Well said. Other players were told they had to conform to uniform rules but not Capernick. I heard that Nike is counting on Blacks and over seas sales to compensate for the loss of sales to people who disapprove of their ad. Well, we shall see how that works out for them. A friend of mine wants to have a bonfire burning of all things Nike. She is angry like so many of us are.

this country is split down the middle. For the sake of it, we should divide it up now and stop this fighting.

Right in that statement he is saying he values islam, (ie muslims which means they practice islam) more than he does America. That statement alone should of awakened America...but 50% did not.

He brought change alright. He brought his muslim background into the forefront, along with his politically correct liberal ideas, and his signature destruction of our medical care system. Lots of change...

They definitely halved their market potential. Maybe its only liberals that buy their stuff anyway, in which case their sales will be unaffected.

They are halving their customer base. Hopefully for them, they figure that the millenials and other liberals will still buy their stuff. There are other shoe mfrs and we dont HAVE to patronize Nike.

Down with Kaepernick forever.

Nike is stupid to pay him millions