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Yhygh
Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 3:34PM Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Preferably, they should not be some scrawny guy.

That takes off about 80% of elite runners.
Quenton Cassidamius
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 3:40PM - in reply to Yhygh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Mo Farah easily. He is going to win a Gold medal for the host country and is one of the nicest guys in the sport.
usa guys
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 3:58PM - in reply to Quenton Cassidamius Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Nick Symmonds or Andrew Wheating, if one were to win gold. Both have personality, looks, and are not scrawny.
orbitboy
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 4:03PM - in reply to Yhygh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Obviously Ryan Hall. Hence the high profile Vizio endorsement.
Ignorant buffoon
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 4:44PM - in reply to usa guys Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
While I like Wheating, he doesn't really have looks. I would say Solinsky. He's a good-looking guy, is probably the biggest long distance runner in the world in terms of height and weight, and has that sort of edgyness to him. Though Rupp may be our best distance runner bar Lagat, he doesn't have any marketability. Scrawny, looks feminine, and if the non-running community found out about his throng of health problems... damn.
stick with eharmony.com
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 4:52PM - in reply to Yhygh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
most marketable
Webb
Lagat
Fernandez

Least Marketable
centro
wheating
rupp
symmonds
acosta


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Rocafella
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 4:56PM - in reply to Yhygh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Pre... just ask Nike.
crazy person
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 5:06PM - in reply to Rocafella Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Dudes...it's Ryan Hall. The saw the guy on a TV box at Costco. He's all over Nissan ads. He's got the christian crowd roped in as well. I don't see any other distance runner on a box when I'm shopping.
PostToasties
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 5:08PM - in reply to Yhygh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I had a poster of Jim Ryan wearing a "Post Cereal" singlet that I got sending boxtops to Post Cereal company when he was about at the end of his road in the mid 70s.

I was in Jr. High, and I thought grape nuts was a venereal disease.
Here to tell ya
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 5:13PM - in reply to Rocafella Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Once she turns pro.....JORDAN HASAY.
cvcvcv
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 5:29PM - in reply to Yhygh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Dean K.
Not Solins
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 5:35PM - in reply to Yhygh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Someone who was born and raised in Oregon. Odd looking mutts from Wiconsin or England look funny in ads and are actually a detriment to the image of the company.
orbitboy
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 5:37PM - in reply to crazy person Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
crazy person wrote:

Dudes...it's Ryan Hall. I don't see any other distance runner on a box when I'm shopping.


The proof is in the pudding.
dsfasfdsa
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 5:45PM - in reply to Yhygh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Objectively, it's Ryan Hall. With women, it's Kara Goucher.

(Limiting myself to Americans and the American market; obviously it would be Geb in Ethiopia, etc.)
runn
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 6:13PM - in reply to Yhygh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Symmonds
Hall
Centro (High school girls like him)
Ritz (women have told me he's hot)
Solinsky
Any decently good looking female.
jaswk
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 6:18PM - in reply to cvcvcv Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
cvcvcv wrote:
Dean K.


If you go by who has earned the most money in endorsement and appearance fees, then this very well could be correct.
goivy
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 6:32PM - in reply to jaswk Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Delilah DiCrescenzo

She's hot, smart, although not the best female runner we got, she's perfect for commercialization.

ALSO she already has her own theme song...
ad.man
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 6:51PM - in reply to Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Current American

Lopez Lomong. Currently in a Visa ad on the national television networks narrated by Morgan Freeman. A movie about his life is a possibility.
Is he serious?
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 6:53PM - in reply to Here to tell ya Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Here to tell ya wrote:

Once she turns pro.....JORDAN HASAY.


I've never heard of her.
Helluva Runner
RE: Most marketable distance runner? 6/15/2012 6:58PM - in reply to Yhygh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
For the men you need someone attractive, so no twigs. But I think a bigger factor is that you need someone who isn't so nice. We need someone who gets pissed when there records are broken or they have a bad race, someone who trash talks and then delivers. Get someone who creates controversy and is in it more for themselves than "Furthering American Distance Running" and you will get marketability.

For the girls just get someone who is pretty fast, attractive, positive attitude, and does good interviews.
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