Good for him. American freedoms exercised.
Who? What? Yawn😴
How stupid. That was your lively hood. Sometimes it's ok to take a step back and give in.
Bye bye dumb ass.
Couldn't happen to more of a 💩👜
You did do it your way...the dumb way. 😑
Good
🤣
75% off?
Stubborn bigot
Bye 👋 jackass!
Well, I hope you can live poor, since you still have your dignity.
Thank him. He’s a courageous compassionate principled man. Hope he succeeds elsewhere.
You mean, ironically, you stood up for what you believed in, just like Kaepernick! Sounds like you Both have a lot in common. dumpgop
Good riddance, bigot! 🤣🤣🤣
Agree or disagree, the man has the guts to take a stand
How absurd can you get. Deserves to close
Principle over profit. Well done. Bravo.
Yeah and look what doing it your way for you
Market capitalism at work. Bleep this guy.
THE POOR SUCKER COULD OF MADE MILLIONS, BUT INSTEAD HE CHOSE TO BE A RACIST
How is business treating you now?
Guess he didn't like making money
Another Trumpian genius.
Idiot
😂😂😂
Maybe he should ask Colin for a loan (after he investigates Trump's hatred of the NFL after they refused his admittance with the N.J. Generals. Trump gets even.)
Stephen Martin can now go watch the imaginary BorderWall being built with his scared 😱 white friends
You went out of business. You did it Trump's way.
Old news!!!
Mr. Martin misses the irony in sacrificing his livelihood to slight someone for doing the very same thing. The big difference, aside from Mr. Martin’s hypocrisy, is that Mr. Martin also hurt other people, including his employees and suppliers. Kaepernick hurt only himself.
Going out of business to own the libs.
Boy, that was a smart business move!
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Although I do feel for his employees who will become unemployed. Thoughts & prayers.
Bye
Goodbye:
Thought he would win
Well, considering his face his the mirror of his character and soul...makes sense!
Oh that Stephen Martin is a wild and crazy guy!
Hate & racism is a poor business model.
Bye Felicia.
Thoughts and prayers
I look forward to a non-racist store owner replacing him. Go away boomers. Next!
So hilarious.
Hard lesson. .but he deserves the lesson since he obviously doesn't know what Kap stands 4
Heh Stephen, go sit on the couch and make room for your Poppa John
He gonna do a gofundme now?
Well good. Hope he is happy with running his business into the ground.
Unfair how some face consequences for their beliefs while others settle for $60 to $80 million
That was a good business decision. Bet this fool graduated from the trump academy.
So, Kaepernick still has his millions, plus the millionare deal with Nike. Meanwhile, this guy closed his business and lost money. Who lost? And all because of arrogance and pride.
Typical of a Trump supporter playing the victim and hero all at the same time and expecting no one to factor in that he was getting ready to retire. Con knows con.
Anyone who presents that the taking of a knee is a statement against the military and/or the US flag can use that as a reason for their failure, but whatever their re son for failing, ppl like Nike products.
KARMA
He’s doing what a lot of trump supporters are doing - deifying trump to the detriment of their own well being also known as cult behavior
Natural selection. It's a beautiful thing.
A perfect world of freedom- Martin gets to not sell Nike and customers get to buy Nike products elsewhere and he shuts down. A beautiful American story of freedom for all.
And how did that work out for you, boss?
My thoughts and prayers go out Mr Martin. Perhaps realDonaldTrump can help bail him out
Mans shouldve sold MAGA caps maybe he'd still be open😂😂
I guess “Owning The Libs” was more important than “Owning The Store”. This is what happens when Trump’s minority base has been puffed up by the media like , such that they don’t understand that they are in the overwhelming popular minority. BeBetter .
LOVE karma!
Bye
Martin how dare you approve of young black boys being have kids?Well how would it feel?c'mon grow up
Sad
Thanks for reporting only one business to closing. Keep on reporting your propaganda
This is probably the least savvy (i.e. dumbest) businessman there is...
Now don’t you feel stupid.
lol meanwhile at NBC the guy making up the hate crime in Chicago who happens to be a famous actor on a hit tv show is a non story
Prime example of an individual living in a bubble that thinks everyone thinks like he does. Nike’s target market is not old white guys.
Thoughts and prayers
Boy bye. Nike is doing just fine without you. And so is Kaepernick!
Corporations have been sticking it to the middle class for years by not paying their share of takes by paying off politicians Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right we need to stop the pay-offs and the stealing of our tax dollars.
He is lying 🤥 the shop was losing money anyway and used this an excuse to close it and boost his profile
I don't agree with Keapernick but this is stupid refusing to sell something and then putting your business under is dumber than him giving up professional football career for a protest he doesn't even believe in
How’d that work for you?
He totally owned the libs. So much winning!
Good for him!
I am a blue bird. So, my little blue birds, please don't bite. I saw this story, and I don't think it is as accurate as it is reporting. 😊 I met someone form that area, and he reported the closing of many stores over there.
He made plenty
Glad you have your dignity and did it your way
Me: Do you have Nike shoes? Owner: No. We are protes... Me: starts walking out Owner: Don’t you wanna know why we don’t sell Nike? Me: Nope
Buh bye.
And why is this news? After these 2 years we are pretty convinced that 1/3 of the country thinks like him!
How much hate must one man harbor to burn down his own business in defense of a racist boycott?
You did it your way - all the way to bankruptcy. Kudos.
Poor man it seems that u have to adore black ppl nowadays in order to be accepted in 🇺🇸 society
Hoist with his own petard.
Great man!
Good. One less idiot business man. His loss.
old news
Idiot
I guess it’s ok for him to take a knee for his beliefs.
Unfortunately Trump is bringing the country down and his followers are not seeing it. It is very sad.
AMF
I’m so sorry that you lost your business over so black guy that wouldn’t stand up for his country! I don’t buy nikesportswear anymore and think they should pull his advertisements
Good probably one less racist owning a business
You get what you give,
JRTheBossman He's a fool!
If your supporters only spent money at your store instead of lip service you'd be ok.
'I hate to lose my business over it, but I want to stay a 4th grader.' What's wrong with you people? If you're a sporting goods store your business is selling sporting goods. Not judging your customer's personal lives. Thats for God.
Bye. Bye. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Where is his 'go fund me' page for a new, better shop! Great American.
Some people will dig their own grave to prove they can use a shovel.
Woodie dupdie...frankly speaking, I don’t give a damn (Gone With the Wind). Most people in the world are poor and can’t afford them anyway. I wonder who does he thinks he’s hurting 🤷🏿♂️🤷🏿♂️🤷🏿♂️
I stand and salute this man and his principals! Screw Nike and screw Colin Kaepernick. I hope and pray he is hit by a speeding train!
I’m glad he’s content with his choices. We all take risks and live with the consequences if they don’t pan out.
doesn’t believe in capitalism
If his store was that fragile, it was probably destined for failure anyway.
Why is this news? Oh, to stir the pot of divisiveness
Buy 🤣🤣🤣
Oh well
Great, more people now out of a job because this owner chose the coward’s way out!
But it's ok, he is making room for someone else.
He rode the Bigot wagon all the way to out of business. Sometimes being a misunderstanding douche-bag can be costly.
For his next trick he's going to open a bakery and refuse service to 'the gays.'
Good. Kaepernick sucks anyway
I can’t believe this happened to someone who got an A in Business 101 at Trump University
Good
Didn’t sell out. Kap did
Good JOB Martin.. Boycott overrated Overpriced NIKE products made in poor countries for cheap labor. .. BOYCOTT NIKE
SamKraemerTV Ha Ha!👍
T & P
Good.
New greeter at Wal-Mart? Although he may not be smart enough
Another trump voter. When will they learn?
This is what happens when people cut of their noses to spite their faces.
I'd like to buy a personalized jersey before you close your doors sir.
Bigotry has its consequences.
Here's hoping a black guy buys it.
I won't name businesses, but there are places that we don't shop and eat because of their MAGA politics. I will say, we're fond of pizza, chicken, and have a few hobbies.
stupid racist loses business....thoughts and prayers
He can learn to code.
Hmmm... guess his customers voted where they stand with their pocketbooks
Bet he would like to rethink that decision. How many bullets and or guns he decided not to sell after mass shootings. I bet fucking zero
🤣🤣🤣 MAGA
And you see where that asshole might play next year. If the losing owners put him on field i hope every football player in every game make him a target. Till he cant play.
Nike is not a friendly company, but they nice sneakers so who cares.
You were able to find one business and you're running with the story to push your agenda EnemyOfThePeople FakeNews FakeNewsNBC
So karma was wearing high heels 👠 when she kicked his butt 🤗
Great open up taco stand
😂
Karma
Go home, and sit on wheel chair facing the sun or away from it.
A trump supporter following the recommendations of 'The Shart of the Deal.' Be wilfully ignorant of the demands of your clientel, destroy the prospects of managing a successful business by grasping onto pseudo intellectual dogmas instead of logic, then declare bankruptcy.
Looking bad for Colorado...don’t like Nike, close store! Don’t like your sexual preference, will not bake a cake for you!!!
And I love the 2 prs of Nike shoes I purchased on the day the ad dropped.
Good news is, he’ll probably be remembered as a gross, abusive white guy just like Sinatra! Bad news for him is he’ll only be remember by dozens of people. Or maybe that’s good news?
Thoughts and prayers!
Should have stuck to Chick-fil-A
He’s WHITE! I’m shocked 😱
I guess your way was worth it for you. In hind sight it must seem like it was a bad business decision. Enjoy your early retirement.
And your ex customers did it their way
The MAGA who refused to sell Nike products in his Sports Store to support Trump...………...Did it TRUMP's way. ………………...And NOW is Bankrupt too 😊
I wish more people would “do it their way” 👍
Ha, ha!
I don't really care, do U?
Spoken like a true cult follower.
Free speech works in many ways. By spending your money in a particular place is a signal of speech in itself. Stephen, your free speech came with an equally brutal response from us.
Dope
Well he sure showed them! 😂😉
You get what you give😊
Good for him!!!
It's quite a dullard that prefers shuttering his business over a company's support of, -free speech -the right to protest, and -ending police abuses. All worthy causes. So. I wonder what really bothered him about Colin Kaepernick.....
Can’t feel sorry for being stupid
I wonder when he's laying in his cardboard box, hungry, freshly tuckered out from panhandling, will be cry out a feeble and weak 'MAGA!', under his breath? Then again, he'll just blame Hillary. It's what the Trump voters do for literally everything wrong in their lives.
Ah, the racist Frank Sinatra
Who cares
He just got hired as the new UN ambassador.
Good & not sorry
My way or the highway..turns out to be the highway..buhbye.
Good to hear it. Discrimination always has consequences.
No fucks given!!
If Colin Kaepernick was a white men fighting for a cause would you still refuse to sell Nike products?
Piper Paid!
Enjoy being unemployed.
Praying.
Well then he got his wish. Buh bye. Maybe realDonaldTrump will bail him out. 😂🤣
His choice. No one else's business.
I did it myyyyyy waayyyyyyyyy🎼
Highly doubt it was cuz of Nike. Brick and Mortar stores are having such a hard time due to online sales. Most malls are on the decline. Sad. savethemalls
WELL THATS A RACIST FOR YOU ... I BET HE IS A TRUMP SUPPORTER
Learn to code
Your headline should read 'Racist Closes Store Because of Bad Business Decision.' Quit giving people like this media attention.
I respect him and his decision completely! Nike’s ad was a slap in the face to so many military men and women who have lost their lives. I will never buy a Nike product again.
Karma 😂
And yet the NFL is okay with abusive men.
Trumps new choice for head of labor.
The store manager of PrimeTimeSports Stephen Martin, did it Trumps way =-Not once does he know what this is all about
Covfefe.
I guess he taught them a lesson! No brain no headache!
Thoughts & prayers
Womp Womp
Hope it was worth it. A life legacy waisted over a politically motivated move to not sell Nike products. He should thank Trump for fueling this division as opposed to trying to fix the mistrust minorities have towards the police.
Womp womp!! It just followed the natural course of Trump businesses MagaMoron
Is that a 'womp womp' or an 'I don't care do you'?
I feel so owned...🤣
Willing to go down for his love of country and Not take multi million dollar corporate payout to STFU. A real advocate.
And to each his own. But he invoked his right to have an opinion & should stand the consequence of that decision to 'stand up' for what he believed just like .Kaepernick7 did when he kneeled...except the store owner loses from being on the side of wrong.
Retired to the dustbin of history. Good riddance.
Is someone supposed to feel sorry for his ignorance?
Schadenfreude
You reap what you sow, fact!
NFL paid Kaepernick7 $60-80 million for doing nothing- more than GOAT TomBrady makes in 4 years- PLUS he gets his Nike money. It's pathetic. Kaepernick outsmarted all of them w/his sham. It wasn't for a cause - it was to get rich.
Try getting teenagers to buy other brands almost impossible! trust me I've had I've tried it!
I applaud his decision. He risked his business. I and my family do not buy Nike products.
He had to close it so he could make sure he made it to all his Klan meetings
Maga lol
This is the siren call of the MAGA folks. Even as things burn around them, they take solace in the fact that they had fun throwing gas on the fire...
Good close the dump!
Why is this story getting days of media attention? He bought into a bunch of far right lies and chose to shoot himself in the foot. What’s the big deal here?
SBF42 I think sporting stores are closing anyway may have been failing already . Also why Nike had to run a high profile ad. Possibly he was hoping it would bring in business.
Don’t feel sorry for him. Probably quotes 2nd Amendment but can’t remember that 1st Amendment rights are there for everyone.
Not just Kaepernick jerseys but all Nike products
Way to own the libs
Kudos!
Hahahahaha, loser, hahahahahahahahaha.
Douche bag.
Womp womp
👋
'I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.' -- Molly Ivins
Nvh bgui jfjkf
This is hilarious
I never understood boycotts. Maybe if someone or a company committed an atrocious act. I'm not going to stop watching the NFL and I'm not going to stop buying NIKE because I disagree with Colin. That's just stupid.
Sarcastic thoughts and prayers
If he is so influenced by political views to formulate his business plans around his political beliefs, I doubt his store was making money in the first place. Stupid is as stupid does.
This guy is very similar to trump’s other supporters like farmers. The racism high he gives them seems to outweigh the economic destruction it brings. It makes impossible to muster any sympathy, because their pain is self inflicted.
Bye-Bye
Poor deluded little man. I guess racism doesn’t pay like it used to...
😂😂😂
I respect those in business who have ethics and won't sell out to make a buck. I wish Stephen Martin the best in his future endeavors.
This patriot may be without a store, but Kaepernick7 is still without a job in the NFL.
Thoughts and prayers.
Trump's make America hate and racist doesn't cut it with consumers!
A guy that that actually stuck to his principles
Colorado is lost to the commies , find an honest community to live in .
Probably a Trump supporter. He should have known better. Hope it was worth it.
So he's out of a job like Kaepernick?
And where are the trump supporters for this guy now?😂✌🏼🇺🇸
Yes, the narrow-minded way.
Proud of him for walking the walk of his beliefs!!!
Wish we knew. We would have all patronized his business. His sale would have gone through the roof.
And I'll say it again, his choice + free market = this result. He answered what he perceived to be a bad business decision with his own, fatal business decision.
Nike
Owning the Libs by going bankrupt Somuchwinning.
Him and Kaepernick sound kind of similar...
Another fake American who's actions show he supports police brutality.
It’s great to own your mistakes, but self inflicted wounds like these in the age of the God King Supreme Leader Donald Trump seem to be all too common of an occurrence.
Its called 😁Karma
👍👍👍
Is there a direct cause and effect between the man refusing to carry Nike and his store closing? Retail is tough. It is a challenge to run a shop these days, regardless of Nike products.
I respect his 'stand.' Honor the flag.
Awww, I'm not crying.
I can't believe this idiot would even show his face in light of this stupidity. Maybe he's trying to get in with the MAGA crowd and get a job in D.C.
Natural selection in the commercial arena❗️👉🏽💩👋🏽
Stephen Martin goes broke..... the NFL pays Kaepernick millions .... NIKE sets records .... what a douchebag Stephen Martin is.
Really owned the libs
And?
Make a bad business decision. Lose money. Go out of business. Simple equation.
Lol
One more bigot down....
Wow ! All the stores that stopped selling Ivanka’s shitty line survived
Destroying your business to own the libs...
I don't really care, do you? ThoughtsAndPrayers
seems smart.............................................................................................
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