If you buy anything from Nike you're a traitor to the sport

Do it. In fact, just do it. wrote:

educated guess wrote:

[quote]Do it. In fact, just do it. wrote:

If you make your purchasing decisions based of a corporation's percieved image you are disrupting the maximally efficient machine of capitalism/quote]

You failed Econ 101, didn't you?

Wrong. I skipped econ 101 and went straight into intermediate microeconomics like a boss where I passed with a D to complete my last bull poo humanities credits required for my electrical and computer engineering degree. Suck it baby.

Good. Stick to computers and put your money under the mattress. That's the best YOU can do with it.

American guy wrote:

Buy Brooks, Saucony, New Balance, Hoka, Sketchers, Altra or other American brands. Stuff from foreign manufacturers is also OK if the only alternative is Nike.

Don't buy Nike. Just don't.

Lol New Balance and Sketchers

Buy shoes all you want, but for the love of god don't buy a baseball glove from Nike. Seriously, do they have to have their mitts in everything now days. I wouldn't be surprised if they made rodeo equipment.

Professor Jumbo J wrote:

American guy wrote:

Buy Brooks, Saucony, New Balance, Hoka, Sketchers, Altra or other American brands. Stuff from foreign manufacturers is also OK if the only alternative is Nike.

Don't buy Nike. Just don't.

Lol New Balance and Sketchers

You don't like Coburn and Meb?

I'm just going to say that Saucony is by far the most reliable brand out there. Solid shoes, solid spikes that beat out Nike any day. I tried the Vic Elites (another kid on my team had them) and they were awful. The flywire cuts into the foot, but if you lace it loose enough so that doesn't happen then your foot moves around. The Endorphin MDs are very comfortable comparatively, have monster grip on the track and are lighter too... Seems like a no-brainer. (I run 55, 2:03, and 4:27)

So, Nike is the only shoe company that sponsors dopers?

Just tossed a pair of NIKE shorts and a tech shirt into a donation box after that nasty story involving the threat to the Brooks guy.

A shame that NIKE has so much nastiness associated with it.

I'm an old timer and I remember the halcyon days of youth shopping at Blue Ribbon Sports. Simpler shoes, simpler times, younger legs.

It has felt good to boycott Nike. I'm doing it first and foremost because I don't agree with some of their corporate "charity." The guy threatening the other guy from Brooks was also a big turn off for me, andI'm not too pleased with their refusal to make anything (that I've seen anyway) in the U.S.

Finally, I'm also tired of the hype. Believe it or not my distaste for the hype increased after reading "Bowerman and the Men of Oregon." I get the coach-athlete dynamic, but much of the book seemed pretty weird in how large Bowerman (and Pre for that matter) looms in the mind of some grown men. I agree with the guy who said that if Bowerman had peed on him in the shower he would have punched him in the face. As a bonus, much of Nike's stuff is horrendously ugly.

Or from Oiselle as their CEO said she hopes an American athlete finishes dead last in the first round of the 800 because she likes someone else = traitor.