Hilarious. Okay. Go break three vertebrae in a few thousand foot fall, climb Everest, and get back to me. His salesmanship aside, you are insane for downgrading a person who has done so much to the point where he cannot be the nominal face of a company whose products are often referred to, and better known as, "Chelsea Tractors." Take what you have done, apply to be the face of LR, or Toyota, or a tier three Mahindra, and see how far that gets you. I, like many others, will line up to ask, "who the F is this guy and why do I care?"
Again, I am no fanboy but damn, you guys are insane. Constant bitching about the soft that LR has become with their visible face of the brand being the underfed, malnourished Posh Spice. Now, they choose someone who has actual outdoors/ adventure credentials and you are still bitching about it (because he has some rebranded Gerber stuff).
Yeah??? No problem, I had a posterior Disckectomy/reconstruction after I crushed a CERVICAL vertebrae while serving in the US Marines. 6 weeks after the surgery, and 3 days after having the staples out... with a some-what "experimental" spacer in place in my neck between C5-C6 I was on the Middle fork Salmon and oaring a 16' Gear Cat loaded to the gills down a river that was surging over 9+ ft. on the very upper gauge (@ Boundry Creek below Dagger Falls... anything over 6' is considered "flood stages"). 2 weeks after that trip ended I was packing the PCT from CAN down to Nor Cal with another friend and I spent the last 6 days solo as he had an injury and had to pull out at a way point. I'm a Wilderness EMS (WMI Alum)/SAR and Tech rescue specialist, I'm a FF/Medic, I played soccer for 15 years from age 5 on to 19, near 365 days a year including being a US Olympic Team alternate in High-school. I grew up with the rise of DH/FR mountain biking here in OR and raced DH/4x here in the NW for years (and have rag-dolled down the side of Mt. hood a few times after missing a landing/breaking a frame/parts). I've worked as a Wildland FF/sawyer and been a Ranch-hand on a large Cattle Station in Australia where I taught REAL "Bushcraft"/orienteering/Survival skills, and spent weeks on end doing self-supported bush explorations with my boss and again, fought Wild-Fires. I've been climbing since I was very young and I've operated at 10,000ft and above more then enough to know I'm not susceptible to HAPE or HACE and IF I were a rich man I
might consider trying Everest (although if you knew anything about the History of Everest you'd know that it's not always the "extreme athletes" who successfully accomplish it and you might be shocked to learn of some of the folks who have and those who've died trying... Everest is a roll of the dice in a lot of respects). I'm far from "one in a million" and neither is BG. And me, I don't WANT to be "the Face" of
anything or any brand...
I also never said ANYTHING about LR being "soft" so go check your reading comprehension... I said I thought it was SAD, that a historical company like LR was going to get into business with what I consider to be a truly dangerous/terrible TV personality.
I'm not saying BG isn't an athletic guy... he clearly IS, but this "mythical status" people like you throw at him is RIDICULOUS. He's a man, and there are MANY other men like him in this world. I knew plenty in the Marines and the sheer factor of numerical odds says that there are likely people closer then you think who might surprise you with what you regard as "amazing skills/experiences"... BG is also a VERY bad example to follow IMO and with as impressionable as some viewer are, I feel like what he represents (regardless of any "warning" at the begining of his show) is dangerous and reckless...
Seriously, how are your whingy posts any "better" or "more mature" then anything???
...To me, it's shouting "WE DON'T HAVE A GOOD PRODUCT, BUT PLEASE LET THIS IRRELEVANT CELEBRITY SWAY YOU ANYWAY!"
Yeah,
exactly. I don't feel like LR
NEEDED anybody (least of all BG) to "hock their products"... They're LR for crying out loud. At best BG will get a few TV watching dentists who like to play "outdoorsman" to wander in, more likely he will alienate others and cast a questionable shadow on their current choice of marketing tactics and possibly even scare some away from their products.
