Aside
from climbing up the ring and exchange punches with Chris Algieri for the WBO
welterweight crown in Macau on Sunday, November 23, though outside of the ring,
there’s another big event in line with Manny Pacquiao’s (56-5-2, 38 KOs) episodes
of money-making efforts as a product or company endorser. On that same day
while Manny is busy with things related
to his fight against his American rival Christ Algieri (20-0, 8 KOs), the
American shoe store chain Foot Locker will be inaugurating its commercial via
the so-called “Week of Greatness” promo. But aside from Pacquiao, the ad
campaign has also featured mainstream sports stars like NBA players Derrick
Rose, James Harden and Tim Duncan, plus WWE wrestler John Cena. OK, watch this
video and see for yourself, so just click THIS.
Foot
Locker Retail, Inc. or Foot Locker, Inc. is an American sportswear and footwear
retailer and in service in more or less 20 countries all over the globe.
You
have probably watched the ad by now and as you have seen, it begins with two
men in a gym talking about the chain's "Week of Greatness" promo
while all of a sudden an eavesdropping Pacquiao appears over the ring ropes and
said, "Wait, wait. So the thing the
people wanted is finally happening?" Pacquiao then gets excited,
exclaiming "He's going to fight
me!" over and over while shadowboxing. The ad is funny, except of
course to Floyd Mayweather Jr., and his supporters!
Though
the ad is about the chain’s promotional sale, allow me to lead you to the bit
mysterious human phenomenon called Eavesdropping.
Netizens
as we are, whether we admit it or not, are involved in eavesdropping specifically
over Facebook forum and discussion threads that are gradually turning into a
hotbeds of bad behavior specially when we comment and post on socio-political
issues. One cannot avoid eavesdropping and commenting in a venue where stupidity,
bragging, bashing and all the crimes against grammar, among other misdeeds that
even myself at times is guilty of, are tolerated. A space where the prevailing
mantra is this: “Engage in the social media conversation” according to Martin Miliev, writer at Perceptica. So be it.
Social
communicators like me cannot afford to restrict our mind when crowded with
people who are afraid of or allergic to profundity. But just like in real
life, in order to have a quality conversation, one needs to learn to listen (or
in this case, read) first. Aside from active reading, the objective eavesdropper
comment only on what s/he perceives as the most relevant social topics at hand. S/he responds to people
whom s/he knows personally and vice versa, and not be obsessed with nonsense
metrics and knows how to ignore those posters under fictitious identity, then
there should be a quick examination of conscience before we click the “Enter” key.
I
am a little nosey (though my seasonal/perennial rhinitis lately sidelined me) since birth and in this positive sense, I love eavesdropping.
Meanwhile,
as a boxing fan and a compatriot of Manny Pacquiao, I am wishing him a convincing
win over Algeiri on Sunday. Without it, the Pacquiao-Mayweather mega dream bout would
make the grapevine soundless about it and that moment would be doomsday for the eagerly anticipating
eavesdroppers in boxing today…
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(Photo; Rappler)
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