Damn Alexi Pappas selling very bland posters for $100.00!

Karl Hungus wrote:

I'm just here for the comments.

Impressive. Thanks for sharing. Duh!!!!!!!!

derp wrote:

someone care to educate me on this whole 'bravies' thing? I've heard the term but don't think i want to wade through minutes of selfie videos to figure it out.

Many of her fans are Native Americans and she calls them 'bravies' since she's stuck in the 1920s. Kinda racist, honestly.

I think it's hilarious that this board is OBSESSED with making track more popular, and then they lose their minds when a track athlete actually tries to promote herself.

I mean she is a fairly decent and unpretentious person I would say. I've never had an interaction with her that gave me the impression she was pretentious.

shiiiiiet, i wont even pay 100 dollars for a pair of running shoes!

Frisco girls like Alexi Pappas, Shannon Rowbury, Brianne Thiesen get all the Hollywood TV Media coverage.

$100 is a lot.

$15 I would do.

clunker wrote:

I think it's hilarious that this board is OBSESSED with making track more popular, and then they lose their minds when a track athlete actually tries to promote herself.

Hey dingbat, it's because she's charging $100 and no one lost their mind except maybe you.

That's arrogant on her part to think that her signature on a poster is worth that. I got Bob Probert's autograph, for free! He signed his hockey card and was both kind and happy to do it.

Go to her website. She's so special that you can't actually contact her, it goes to one of her "people".

Sorry, no one is that big and important. She didn't think this one out very well.

that little girl has some juicy legs on her hubba hubba! not to sound like a dirty dog but id pay her $100 to just tour around with her to races and give her leg rubs.

clunker wrote:

I think it's hilarious that this board is OBSESSED with making track more popular, and then they lose their minds when a track athlete actually tries to promote herself.

Does she even run track anymore?

she seems much more interested in promoting herself than the sport. Which is fine, but don't pretend like it's something that it's not. She's just trying to build a business, a lot of people do that. Just has very little to do with track.

See the Ball family in basketball. Very similar actual. They went overseas because they couldn't make the cut in their own country and try to sell $400 shoes to the fanbase they've cultivated as a business. When people criticize the Balls I don't hear people mistaking that for attacking the sport of basketball.

$100 for a poster is insane, and even shameful when you consider the target audience.

Selling 12 posters to junior high girls with rich parents isn't exactly going to do much to promote the sport.

But I could be wrong.

There could be a running boom going on in Greece rn that we don't know about.

Ohh my gosh, she has an agent and wants athletic inquiries to go to her agent??? HOW DARE SHE. She responds to fans all the time on social media and the contact page on her website asks her fans to reach out to her that way. She is a very popular runner even if her demographic is the exact opposite of letsrun's.

Also, this isn't the first time she has done the limited personalized poster run. She did this exact same thing (100 posters at $100 each) at least once before. It was a different poster though. I was thinking about getting one last time but then they sold out and I don't like the current poster nearly as much. Also, she doesn't just sign them she asks for information about you and then rights you a "personalized" message. I don't know how cool the messages are or are not but that seems cooler than just a signature to me.

how much do you make an hour btw? just wondering how much of thier lives people are willing to sacrifice to get a 'personal' message from a subfamous person they have never met.

i also love how it's a 'limited edition' but obviously seems like she will keep cranking out series of them as long as she's making money. So will not exactly be a 'rare' item.

Just curious, what makes you such a Pappas fan that you'd pay $100 for a signed poster. are you greek?

She's just playing the social media game. Most people are products of their environment though you would expect a more enlightened outlook from a supposedly intelligent person. Her social network "demographic" is young girls. She is quoted by the New York Times: “Whatever I am to these girls, I’m happy to be.” She is clueless about what her young fans find appealing about her and doesn't seem to care. Yet she will gladly sell them a poster for either $100 or a certain number of Twitter retweets. Even superstars like Lebron James will give away a pair of autographed shoes for 25,000 retweets. Such retweets are purchased popularity (the online ad & marketing companies don't even pay attention to those gimmicks anymore, they want true popularity). When you really think about it, it is despicable for someone like Pappas to play upon a bunch of young girls to pay her $100. It really is a sign of how low society is sinking, pressured by a number of various factors.

As usual everyone is missing the reason for the importance of this poster. It is a Limited Edition poster! That's what makes it special.

Read the fine print please wrote:

As usual everyone is missing the reason for the importance of this poster. It is a Limited Edition poster! That's what makes it special.

I'm not falling for this again. Last time I spent money on a rare piece of sports memorabilia it was a Jose Canseco Rated Rookie for $120.

Oh wait. Thats right I didn't spend cash. I traded for it.

With mid 80's Michael Jordan cards.

ooooffff

From her bio ...

and also ran for the University of Oregon as a 5th year, leading the team to two NCAA victories.

She led the team to 2 victories? I thought that was Jordan Hasay?

Read the fine print please wrote:

From her bio ...

and also ran for the University of Oregon as a 5th year, leading the team to two NCAA victories.

She led the team to 2 victories? I thought that was Jordan Hasay?

damn could you imagine how much Jordan Hasay could have charged her fangirls for her posters?

it's disgusting much money people let slip away due to integrity.

derp wrote:

Read the fine print please wrote:

From her bio ...

and also ran for the University of Oregon as a 5th year, leading the team to two NCAA victories.

She led the team to 2 victories? I thought that was Jordan Hasay?

damn could you imagine how much Jordan Hasay could have charged her fangirls for her posters?

it's disgusting much money people let slip away due to integrity.

but Jordan Hasay is NOT an Olympian!

Read the fine print please wrote:

derp wrote:

damn could you imagine how much Jordan Hasay could have charged her fangirls for her posters?

it's disgusting much money people let slip away due to integrity.

but Jordan Hasay is NOT an Olympian!

But she IS an AMERICAN!!!

....and that's the hot currency of the day

and how did Pappas even get back to the US after the Olympics?? I thought we built a wall?