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    Talking The Shoe Heard 'round the World

    Nike Stocks Skid After Star Blows Through Sneaker In Big College Game

    -How'd you like to have been a Nike PR guru on Wednesday night? You're sitting on the couch, munching away, watching No. 8 North Carolina play No. 1 Duke, when Zion Williamson makes a hard cut on the basketball floor and his Nike-brand shoe explodes.

    The disaster happened just 33 seconds into the big game, and Williamson, who injured his knee, left the court, never to return.

    Worse, how'd you like to be the Nike guy who thought up the ad campaign slogan "It's gotta be the shoes!" Oh, it's the shoes, all right.

    And one more, even worse, almost unimaginable, thing: Let's drop former president Barack Obama into the mix, put him courtside, and then have the TV cameras — somehow — capture him saying, "His shoe broke."...

    *video at link*

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/43768...ar-joseph-curl

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    Will this be the equivalent of the 1982 Tylenol scare?

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    well... that can't be good!

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    I think it's dumb the stock dropped. People are prisoners of the moment. Stuff happens. How long has Nike been in business? It's not like it happens every day. Stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    I think it's dumb the stock dropped. People are prisoners of the moment. Stuff happens. How long has Nike been in business? It's not like it happens every day. Stupid.
    Stop making sense.

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    They are probably another on the list of companies who have been foolish enough to start having their product made in China. Nothing good comes from China.

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    Meh, never was into those OVERPRICED sneakers

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    Quote Originally Posted by Romans828 View Post
    Meh, never was into those OVERPRICED sneakers
    My daughter fancies herself a shoe guru (she used to work at Footlocker) and said that those shoes aren't for guys who are as big as him, even though they are sold as basketball shoes. I don't know if that's really true or not, but I choose not to question the shoe guru!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan View Post
    My daughter fancies herself a shoe guru (she used to work at Footlocker) and said that those shoes aren't for guys who are as big as him, even though they are sold as basketball shoes. I don't know if that's really true or not, but I choose not to question the shoe guru!
    She makes a good point. A size 10 would never do that but if your size 20 is manufactured using size 10 standards therein lies the problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ezekiel 33 View Post
    They are probably another on the list of companies who have been foolish enough to start having their product made in China. Nothing good comes from China.

    Except Col. Kung Pau chicken. (Or cat )

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