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Honestly, I Would Wear Adidas Just on Principle Joel Send a noteboard - 05/03/2017 09:08:04 PM

Background

Last year, Adidas made a promotional offer of $1 million to anyone who broke the NFL Combines 40 yard dash record. Naturally, they set conditions, but those were easily satisfied: The winner had to break the record in ADIDAS shoes, then sign an endorsement deal before the season started. The record held, so this year Adidas made a comparable but far more tangible offer: Break the record, win an island.

The Event
John Ross ran a blistering 4.22, or 0.02 seconds faster than CJ2Ks (former) record of 4.24 in 2008, but apparently that was the "easy" part.

The Punchline
He did it in a pair of NIKE Vapor 4.2s. So Revis Island remains all alone in an empty NFL sea. Ross was quick to rationalize his "sad" fate by noting he neither swims well nor owns a boat (wisely heeding Odell Beckham Jrs. cautionary tale), so no big loss, right? Anyway, he had already signed an alternate endorsement deal with Nike, so followed up his record-breaking performance by tweeting a pic of the Nike Vapor 4.2 with the caption "There's only one option when you want to go 4.2." Great, John, and many of us would likely heed THAT moral, except "They weigh 6.9 ounces and have a full carbon plate as part of the shoe. Unfortunately, they’re exclusive for the combine, so you won’t be able to buy the Vapor 4.2s yourself."

So the real moral is: Wear Adidas and take whatever endorsement offered after the Combine, because it costs nothing and... you never know....

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Honestly, I Would Wear Adidas Just on Principle - 05/03/2017 09:08:04 PM 807 Views
I can't contribute to a discussion of the NFL. But did you know the Brits pronounce 'Nike' wrong? - 05/03/2017 10:32:19 PM 521 Views
AH-DEE-dahs? - 05/03/2017 10:36:59 PM 550 Views
Nike and Adidas are the worst. - 05/03/2017 10:53:29 PM 520 Views
I'd call you a pronunciation Nazi for that, but... - 05/03/2017 11:18:13 PM 566 Views
Want to share the two pronunciations to help those of us neither American nor British? - 05/03/2017 11:36:23 PM 530 Views
I'll give you the US pronunciations - 06/03/2017 12:17:29 AM 543 Views
British: NYKE (one syllable) and AH-dee-das - American: NY-kee and ah-DEE-duss - 06/03/2017 06:13:44 AM 527 Views
Okay, that's more or less what I thought. Whew. - 06/03/2017 06:44:23 AM 512 Views
Then John says Adidas wrong. Ah-dih-das. - 06/03/2017 12:45:31 PM 472 Views
It's polite to say 'differently' - 06/03/2017 11:40:28 AM 535 Views
Language is a democracy. There are more of us so are way is right. *NM* - 06/03/2017 11:50:44 AM 237 Views

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