chirp chirp chirp wrote:
I hate to admit it but UofO has made me interested in track again. I hate everything that Oregon represents. I view Nike as a corporate giant that acts like they are young and hip. i don't mind the corporate giant and I don't mind young and hip. I hate trying to pull off both.
Oregon has become their vehicle to shove both of these Nike images down our throat. Oregon like any good villian has made me sit down in front of the television to cheer against them. Today was a fun day of track and field as Oregon lost both team titles. One big step at slaying the evil hypocricy that is Oregon (Nike). Thanks Oregon for bringing me back.
Let's see how much sense you make with your "back-handed" compliment.
First you state that you: "view Nike as a corporate giant that acts like they are young and hip..."
So you are suggesting that all large corporations try and project an image of "old and uncool?"
You're the last person I would ever want involved with any company I created.
2nd, Nike was started by young people, out of their garages, backs of cars, and cadged together cash from friends. The fact that they got MASSIVE was a function of their originality, uniqueness and tapping into things that were and are attractive to people, and young people. Sports, fitness, high quality, advance leading edge design.
Yeah, it's a pity that in the USA a guy captured by a dream, should actually pursue it, and after a decade of wavering between success and failure, his company makes it, and takes off, and then takes off again, and then takes off again...because he continued to apply the success principles of his coach at each stage, and in each area his company tackled.
Yeah, Nike, who was funding athletes and running events when they were secretly in the red in much of their early days...those big bad phonies from Oregon.
Did it ever occure to you that Nike continues to be appealing and seem young and hip, because they continue to hire young people, they continue to keep an eye on the market.
I'm sorry, I forgot that you are a loser who knows nothing about business or marketing...or real life.
And here is the funniest thing.
So you tell me what quality running shoe is actually "young and hip" ?
The reason Oregon has made Track interesting to you again...is because they continue to stay RELEVANT despite being an established company.
The young person who started that company...still remembers being young.
I have a life suggestion for you; every time you have an opinion, ask yourself what is a layer beneath it, and what is behind that, and what is behind that? --I am willing to bet you apply the same limited imagination, and negative thinking to so much of your life.
The way you do one thing, is often the way you do MOST things...