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Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin Kaepernick
Posted by agregime1 on 2/13/19 at 10:24 pm2212
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A Colorado sports store is closing only a few months after it stopped selling Nike over the company’s decision to feature Colin Kaepernick in a 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign.
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The store’s owner, Stephen Martin, told KOAA News 5 in Pubelo that Prime Time Sports will close after more than 20 years. He attributed the closure partly to the absence of players’ jerseys for sale in his store. “Being a sports store without Nike is kind of like being a milk store without milk or a gas station without gas. How do you do it? They have a monopoly on jerseys,” Martin said. Martin also told the TV station he canceled a 2016 scheduled appearance by Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall after Marshall took a knee during the national anthem. “As much as I hate to admit this, perhaps there are more Brandon Marshall and Colin Kaepernick supporters out there than I realized,” Martin said.
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Being a sports store without Nike is kind of like being a milk store without milk or a gas station without gas. How do you do it? They have a monopoly on jerseys
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As much as I hate to admit this, perhaps there are more Brandon Marshall and Colin Kaepernick supporters out there than I realized
These statements don't follow from one another.
That someone wants to buy X jersey from Nike doesn't mean that they support CK. It means they don't give a frick.
This post was edited on 2/13 at 10:28 pm
re: Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin KaepernickPosted by TheArrogantCorndog on 2/13/19 at 10:29 pm to agregime1
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sports store is closing only a few months after it stopped selling Nike
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Being a sports store without Nike is kind of like being a milk store without milk or a gas station without gas.
Sounds like a fuggin idiot of an owner
re: Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin KaepernickPosted by zacata88 on 2/13/19 at 10:43 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
Guy sounds like an idiot but Fanatics would have put him under sooner rather than later anyway
re: Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin KaepernickPosted by lsuwontonwrap on 2/13/19 at 11:48 pm to agregime1
So, he'd rather close than breakdown and sell Nike? What a dope.
re: Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin KaepernickPosted by LSUFanHouston on 2/13/19 at 11:55 pm to agregime1
What a doofus
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Bingo. Jerseys alone don't kill a store.
Yeah I have a feeling in CO he could have adjusted to other sports gear to substitute nike shite gear. Especially using jerseys as the reason. Cant be that much rev there.
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re: Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin KaepernickPosted by 1MileTiger on 2/14/19 at 12:12 am to X123F45
For us in the CO Springs area, it's been widely known that this store has been struggling. This just gives a scapegoat for the business owner to save some face on his failing business.
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Bingo. Jerseys alone don't kill a store.
True. The only reason that brick and mortar stores like Hibbetts or Dicks exist is so people can see for themselves what they want to order off of Amazon.
This post was edited on 2/14 at 12:14 am
re: Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin KaepernickPosted by Tuscaloosa on 2/14/19 at 12:13 am to agregime1
This was a last ditch effort to drum up attention for a store that was probably going to be out of business soon anyway.
Colorado Springs is a conservative city with a super heavy military presence.
Back when this happened, I started a thread and thought it might actually win him some business short term. Looks like it wasn't enough.
Colorado Springs is a conservative city with a super heavy military presence.
Back when this happened, I started a thread and thought it might actually win him some business short term. Looks like it wasn't enough.
re: Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin KaepernickPosted by jrowla2 on 2/14/19 at 1:10 am to Tuscaloosa
The problem with this chain of stores doing this boycott was that they pretty much only sell licensed sports memorabilia such as hats, jerseys, etc. They arent a sporting goods store by any means. It was really dumb to think that they could stop selling Nike jerseys and survive. They were going to go under anyways seeing as they are mostly a mall based store. I'm amazed they made it this long.
re: Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin KaepernickPosted by TigerStripes06 on 2/14/19 at 1:12 am to agregime1
I know when I go to the milk store, I expect milk.
re: Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin KaepernickPosted by Tuscaloosa on 2/14/19 at 1:26 am to jrowla2
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They were going to go under anyways
Bingo. So why not get your name in the news (nationwide) and see if it helps you keep your lights on a little longer?
Creative business strategy that just didn't work out, IMO.
re: Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin KaepernickPosted by kywildcatfanone on 2/14/19 at 5:24 am to agregime1
You have to work smarter, not harder. If you want to boycot the idiot Kaepernick, then don't sell his stuff, don't fully cut out what is likely 1/2 of your sales of Nike.
Some people shouldn't run businesses.
Some people shouldn't run businesses.
re: Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin KaepernickPosted by Capital Cajun on 2/14/19 at 6:03 am to agregime1
He should of refrained from selling jerseys of the kneelers. Unfortunately if a sports store doesn’t sell Nike especially shoes then there isn’t much worth while.
re: Colorado sports store to close after boycotting Nike over Colin KaepernickPosted by tigerinthebueche on 2/14/19 at 6:19 am to Wtodd
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frick CK
frick the NFL
Agree, but I ain’t giving up my Nike Zoom Pegasus shoes over it.
They are so damn comfortable.
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