Cleveland's response to Lebron's Nike commercial.
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Lol!!!! Cleveland.....get over it! It's business!! Love the clip
Wow. People are just a bit bitter about this.
:cussing::cussing:Who produces these things!!! It was a classic (and brilliant) until it ended with the "Quitness"...
After "Quitness" it should have said "Just Quit it" with the upside down Nike swoosh.
Must I think of everything? :frenchman
There is just no loyalty in pro sports anymore these days. Kind of takes the fun out of it as a fan.
Unless you're titsrock.
Okay it's a bit of a fair point. I just think when a community and organization give athletes these contracts that they have somewhat of an obligation to said community.
Maybe for the same reasons they pay their hard earned money to fill up stands all over the world to watch them compete in the name of the town or school the athletes represent?:dunno:
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I don't really know why. :dunno:
But I would be angry if #18 left the Colts to go play QB somewhere else. And Reggie Miller might not be my favorite NBA player of all-time if he had left to go play somewhere else during his career.
People get attached to athletes that play in their cities. For example, I felt genuinely sick to my stomach when I heard that Robbie Hummel tore his ACL again. Not just because I'm a fan of the team, but because I've watched him develop as a player and a person over the last three years. You also develop an emotional attachment with the players over time. They're trying to win for their fans, and you spend your hard earned money to support them. It's almost like you're working together for a common goal. I could see why some people would feel betrayed by Lebron.
Personally, I never liked the guy. I will be rooting against the Heat every game this year.
The only person more hated than Lebron in Cleveland history is Art Modell.
Well PR I think you're making far too much of it. It's entertainment. People identify with entertainment (well most people) in some form or another. When you do there is a certain amount of spirituality (i.e. emotional attachment) to the circumstances of the entertainment you identify with.
People wouldn't sit around waiting for seasons and buying tickets, waiting in lines...cheering until they're hoarse, getting mad, happy, excited, etc. for their teams to win if it was a proposition they could simply not care about when significant circumstances with their teams (i.e. a teams lone hope to bring a championship to the franchise leaves) changed.
What would be the point of all that I listed above if at the end of it you didn't get a little pissed if a guy who said he was going to fight to win a champ. for the organization up and left?? Now I get that some people don't and will never give a shit about a sport. But I'm sure there are other things they identify with similarly.
Some would ask why give a shit about porn or some tv show called 'Arrested Development? There's no rhyme nor reason to any of it...we all just have our thing.:dunno:
This is funny! Where have I seen this before?
http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=455126&highlight=quitness
http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=455126&highlight=quitness
I see your basic point here. Although, look at LeBron while he was in Cleveland... he really had no obligation to the team itself, let alone the city. Gilbert pretty much let him (LeBron) do whatever he wanted without putting any actual expectations on him. He let him dance around like an idiot in the pre-game, say and do whatver he pleased, and gave him all the money and praise (deserved or otherwise) in the world.
I would say that Gilbert, Mike Brown and the rest of the Cavs' front office are to blame for not cultivating any sense of obligation in LeBron. And really, what does anyone expect? He was (at the beginning) an 18 year old who was given millions upon millions of dollars, praised as the basketball messiah, and was never made to actually produce results. Having all of that as a teenager, with neither incentive, nor expectation to change, or grow as a person he essentially stayed in that mindset that he could do whatever he wanted without fear of repercussion or feeling any obligation to the team or town, which ultimately led to his eventual departure from Cleveland.
Was it (his leaving; the Decision, etc.) a bit self-righteous and immature in its application? Of course. But, no one ever held him accountable for anything in Cleveland, it was always an attitude of "LeBron can do no wrong," and it was always "someone else's fault," that the Cavs didn't succeed. Place no expectations of obligation to anyone, or to anything other than oneself and that's exactly what you'll get.
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