Yesterday I saw a pickleball shoe commercial. Is this really where we are now? I definitely did NOT have pickleball shoe on my 2023 bingo card. Of course, crazier things have happened even just this year*, but I think we’re going to look back on this commercial and laugh… the same way I did when I saw it for the first time.
My instant reaction was, “Hey family, you gotta come see this!” as I proceed to skip back and queue it up for our general merriment. This is why aliens aren’t sticking around here, people. They’re busy traversing galaxies and what are the humans doing? Pickleball shoes.
We landed on the moon just a few decades ago** and now we’re wearing shoes made specifically for pickleball. Let that sink in.
OK, OK it’s not that embarrassing, I guess. I can exaggerate sometimes. But it just has the peculiar feeling of being the butt of a lot of jokes for a long time***. Skechers might very well look back at this and realize they made a huge mistake.
What do you think about the commercial? Any of you play pickleball and halfway through a game think to yourself, “Gosh, I wish I had a pair of pickleball shoes for this…”?
*Shaquille O’Neal still raps, here’s proof
**allegedly
***kind of like what Andrew Tate‘s legacy will be
-Out of the Wilderness
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