Skechers Dunked On Nike By Mocking Zion's Exploding Shoe

Hey Nike, remember that time your shoe blew up on the biggest college basketball player’s foot less than a minute into the biggest college basketball game of the year and everyone went crazy? I mean it was more than a week ago and promptly got pushed to the back of everyone’s mind because Jim Boeheim killed a guy, Robert Kraft got busted for a hand job, it was revealed that Kyler Murray doesn’t have baby hands, and the other 8 billion other things fresher in our brains from the 24-hour news cycle. But yeah, that shit won’t happen with Skechers shoes.

My favorite part of all this is that Skechers doesn’t even have a basketball shoe to compete against Nike with. They just jumped into the mud and #zinged the king of the basketball sneaker game in both the digital world and newspaper world for shits and giggles as well as to remind everybody that Skechers are still a thing. It may not be all that timely with Zion almost ready to return to the lineup and it DEFINITELY is not as memorable as those old ads with a young smokeshow Christina Aguilera getting her role play on.

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But the Skechers marketing department got me to blog about their company and I’m just happy this Skechers roast didn’t make me feel weird like that old Jenny McCarthy Candie’s ad did.

I didn’t know how to feel about this had back when I had a zillion hormones rushing through me. It’s like hammering down on the gas pedal of sexiness while the car is still in park and the parking brake is on. To be honest, I still don’t know how to feel about this ad now all these years later as a grown man, even though I’m sure there are people with a very specific set of fetishes that consider this the greatest ad ever printed. Actually I probably work with a few people that can be put into that category. Different strokes, I guess.