NIke herd commercial

PA Runner, friend, thanks for the update on Ms. Chandler. She was involved in an in-state eligibility situation this summer at the Crim 10 mile. She claimed to have returned back to MI in late spring after living in CA for about 6 months (and lived in MI prior to that). It was determined that she was an in-state runner and eligible for MI money based on those facts.

Now you say she's back in CA...can you tell me how long she's been living there since, say, Sept? I'd like to help the Crim folks w/eligibility info for future reference. Please reply to me directly. Thanks.

I thought the ad was very effective and the ad agency is worth every penny they get.

I also thought it was a very cool commercial. Of course it is not reality, it was fantasy like everything else on TV. What it did though was glamorize running. Hooray for Nike!

That commercial was more stimulating than a bunch of fat guys in a beer commercial at a football game.

Its like everything else Nike is involved in.

All flash, no soul. Pick your sport and they will pimp it for a profit..soccer, tennis, track, biking....

Sadly there are people who will look at the ads and run out and buy their crap.

Lousy ad too, by the way.

K

My browser won't let me respond directly...damn firewalls.

I have no idea what her living arrangements are. I saw her a couple of weeks ago at PA champs wearing the Farm Team uniform and assumed she was living here. I might have put 2 and 2 together and come up with 5.

If Chandler runs XC Club Nationals for the Farm Team, that could also have residency issues. Which assn is she a member of---PA or MI? It seems to me if she was a resident of MI this past summer, she can't possibly compete for a USATF-PA assn team this weekend.

BTW, another thumbs-up here for the Nike commercial! If you don't like their stuff, don't buy it, but the commercial puts running--*fast* running!--in front of a mass audience in the US. And yet, some of you still complain about it. What's wrong with you???

I'm pretty sure I saw Chandra B in that herd...

Damn all you nay Sayers. True, Nike is a bit overpriced, okay way overpriced, but how dare you disparage the greatest shoe of all time, the Air Span Triax, by saying their product sucks. Maybe some of it does, maybe even most of it does, but damn you all to hell for even thinking negative thoughts on the sacred Spans.

That is all.

PA Runner, I suspect Mari is playing a running gypsy these days. She's here, there and nowhere. That's fine but makes it hard to determine eligibility. I don't want to get into whether she's eligible to compete for the Farm Team this weekend. I'd rather wish her well than wonder who she can run for.

On topic, again, the Nike ad is very effective. The target audience is, as 5th man put it, mall shoppers. Argue Nike prices, 'underpaid overseas workers', esthetics etc if you want but their ads are the envy of the industry for various reasons including how well they work. You don't have to like the ads, dislike their products. That hasn't stopped a zillion others taking up your slack and you can bet the ads did a ton to draw them in.

But they discontinued the Anodynes.... discontinued the Anodynes.

They still make the Finland Blue or Kenya Red?

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But they discontinued the Anodynes.... discontinued the Anodynes.

Yep, a lot of people gave up running after that. A pair of LD 1000's would be a good alternative.

I too like the commercial. Towards the end at the right front of the pack, it looks like Gabe Jennings running with his short stride and long black hair.

dude, that commercial is cool as hell. I was so pumped watching it. Who cares if its not totally realistic, that was a f***ing cool commercial.