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Fitness: Nike - That Ain't Right
Posted August 6, 2008 12:43 PM
Wow! And speaking about legendary gifts for men, just look at the photo to your left. We're a site that blogs about guy gifts, sure, but nobody wants that. The Wall Street Journal Online recently ran an article about heat that Nike was getting about its new billboard ads that were allegedly insensitive to gay men and African-Americans. The ads were to promote a new line of basketball shoes called, Hyperdunk, that were to be a part of Nike's Olympic marketing pitch. Basically the image on the billboards are of two unidentifed basketball players, one dunks on the other ones head, leaving the defender in the, er, crotch region of the dunker. The slogan running over the image..."That Ain't Right." Well, at Guyville, we don't think it's the worst thing we've ever seen, however, we can understand why people might get a little muffed, um, miffed by it too.
Look, Nike, we get that you can't win 'em all, and that you aren't always going to dream up something as brilliant as "Just do it" but I'm not sure how anyone thought this could be a real winner. Speaking of winners, why don't you mosey on down to our Guyville Personalized Gifts for Men superstore, where you can find any and all of your gifts for him needs without being grossed out.
