| Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tweets Support for Colin Kaepernick |
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| Breitbart Sports, by Dylan Gwinn Original Article | ||||
| Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took to Twitter on Monday, to lend support to anthem-protesting former quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Ahmadinejad wrote: The #NFL season will start this week, unfortunately once again @Kaepernick7 is not on a NFL roster. Even though he is one of the best Quarterbacks in the league.#ColinKaepernick #NFL — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (@Ahmadinejad1956) September 3, 2018 Ahmadinejad served as Iran’s president from 2005-2013. During that time he ruthlessly suppressed all political opposition. Most notably in 2009, when he oversaw the murder and incarceration of | ||||
| Did Nike make a huge NFL-like mistake embracing Colin Kaepernick? |
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| American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson Original Article | ||||
Is there business logic for Nike embracing Colin Kaepernick? I think there is, for the NFL and athletic shoe business are very different. In the conservative blogosphere, on Fox News, and among my friends, the name of Nike has been forever damaged by the brand’s embrace of Colin Kaepernick, who sparked the widespread disrespect for our flag by NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem. (snip) Nike has recently been losing ground to Adidas. The endorsement power of Michael Jordan for the Air Jordan line of shoes had been hugely profitable, but that power is fading: (Tweets) Charles Robinson, NFL reporter for Yahoo
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There is then, of course, this:
Nike’s Kaepernick Ad Has Cost The Company Over $4 Billion So Far
