Comments on: Kevin Garnett — just trying his best like the rest of us?

By: IT技术

IT技术 — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:27:30 +0000

Sometimes when I read your blog,…..I think

I’m falling in love! You are right on!

By: cosplay

cosplay — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:56:32 +0000

people don’t want to have their problems reflected back to them by someone who has, by his own admission, never had to experience them. The commercial means well, just like I meant well the other day when I told my wife that she looked extra fat in her new outfit. I was only mentioning an issue that she’d rather not hear about…But she still got offended anyway! she needs to freaking calm down.

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By: roy

roy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:28:52 +0000

By: HD

HD — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:42:35 +0000

I’ve been unemployed since October. I worked for a company that makes fuel filters that go in the fuel tanks of cars so you cabn see why there were layoffs…

While I do feel the ad is insensitive due to bad timing, I’m not ready to boycott Gatorade over it…

Honestly, I don’t drink much Gatorade in the 1st place but this commercial has nothing to do with the current state we find our economy in.

You can thank big business and republican assholes for that…

I just hope I can find a job soon or I’ll be the next one telling my wife that “we can’t pay the mortgage.”

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:12:05 +0000

fnn, I understand you better now.

By: ffn

ffn — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:05:37 +0000

Josh, as I said in my post — I don’t doubt the original intention of the commercial. But I feel it’s my right as much as anyone else’s to critique it and I believe they did a lousy job of executing the spot. In other words, it didn’t meet its objectives. In my view, they took a risk with highly-sensitive subject matter, and they failed.

There’s one simple way to know that: by the volume of negative comments the ad has produced. Sure, you can dismiss hundreds of letters and online comments as people needing “to freaking calm down.” But if the commercial had been successful, people would have embraced it, not been offended by it. Snap.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:31:18 +0000

maybe all you haters should stop looking up blogs and go get a job.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:29:34 +0000

Those people need to freaking calm down. That is horrible that you’ve lost your jobs… sorry… but that doesn’t give you the right to criticize anything that mentions a job loss. The swimmer in that commercial was laid of twice and turned to swimming to help cope. Gatorade is comparing and contrasting two “athletes” in opposite situations just to show how ubiquitous athletes really are. Why does this commercial make you any more upset than any other commercials starting a multimillionaire? Do you really have to be “reminded” that Garnett doesn’t struggle with his mortgage? You’re all just looking for a reason to complain.

(And a little extra background for you… Garnett worked harder than probably any other millionaire athlete to get where he is. He worked his way through high school, with as many as 3 to 4 jobs his senior year, so that he could provide for himself and his sister in the brutal Southside of Chicago while his Mom was 2,000 miles away caring for the father he never knew. So it goes without saying, he doesn’t need to be told or taught what it’s like to struggle with money.)