I know this is probably like sacrilege or something, but I’m not a huge fan of Deion’s Nike shoe line. Not taking anything from him or the designers of those lines…they’re obviously classic Nike designs, I just don’t really care. Thinking of Deion’s impact, tho, and those two-sport guys were incredible…Bo Jackson, Danny Ainge (google it lol), Deion Sanders…just incredible incredible athletes. I’m pretty sure I owned an Atlanta Falcons hat at one point or another and that’s directly attributable to Deion (and the dope logo). But those two sport guys are obviously the stuff of legend.
Bo was an absolute marketing machine, but Prime took it to another level. Dude had MC Hammer on the sidelines and even had a RAP cd, which was PRIME-arily marketed at guys like me (see what I did there?) even though I never bought it (nor even heard it). His outfit on the cover made me instantly not-interested.
His Nike line has some memorable sneakers…grails to a lot of people my age. A handful of classic models that just never really resonated with me. Could be because I just never cared much for football (nor baseball), but still followed it from a distance…the Diamond Turf logo was great…glad to hear they’re bring it back…but…I dunno. I was trying to think back of what it’d be like if I were *really* into his line…and the only comparison I could come to was the Penny line. Like if Penny left Nike and his line never really saw a proper retro, I’d probably be pretty stoked if they suddenly announced his comeback, so, I can certainly understand the excitement.
If I had to rock any of them I’d probably go with the Diamond Turf 2.
Interesting to see them trying to resurrect these models from 20-30+ years ago…another attempt at creating some new classics?