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User Reviews for: Air

jmg999
4/10  12 months ago
There really wasn't much to this film. The fact is, I found the ending to be particularly egregious. An on-screen graphic stated that Phil Knight has donated $2 billion to charity. What it didn't say was that he weaseled Nike away from its founding father, Bill Bowerman, supported child molesters, rapists, and murderers by giving them multi-million dollar shoe deals, and supported white nationalism, neo-Confederatism, Christo-fascism, and neo-Nazism by being a supporter of Donald Trump and hateful, right-wing policies.

The film also puffed up Sonny Vaccaro, a man who has played a significantly mixed role in American athleticism. Yes, he did help bring Michael Jordan to Nike, and he recruited Ed O'Bannon for the claim against the NCAA that eventually allowed student-athletes to receive payments while in school, but he also had a huge hand in creating the shady, often illegal activities of summer basketball camps, all-star youth tournaments, and elite prospect camps, all endeavors supported by basketball shoe companies, which Vaccaro took a big piece of the pie from. He was essentially paid to force kids to risk their eligibility to play high school and college basketball. This was his day-to-day job. He really wasn't a figure to admired.
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