jaybate 1.0's Thought for the Day:
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Yeah… it was the lack of contoured, padded soles that created pains for me. A modernized version would be awesome!
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Plain, simple, elegant…CLASSICS!!! My kind of shoe.
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I think they are sexy!!!
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You’re going to have to trust me on this.
I know Chucks were bad.
Today, thin is bad, even after the little flirtation with thin soles and walking shoes with toes a few years ago.
But…
Consider a pair of W. C. Russell’s minimalist boots and shoes for long distance walking outdoors.
They have very thin soles, lots of width, and lots of side-of-foot and ankle support. They were designed in WWI for doughboys.
They are custom made for you.
They are outrageously expensive.
But they last you indefinitely with resoling.
Damn, I am saving for a pair right now.
Probably no good for basketball, but a man needs to walk for so many good reasons.
http://www.russellmoccasin.com/minimalist-footwear-custom-made/
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I had a pair of WWII English soldier boots that I wore religiously for 20+ years. I think I put new soles on them 4 or 5 times. They were made of bull hide. Black high tops that must have weighed 5 lbs each. Even with the weight, I could “march” in those all day long and never have a pain below the knees.
I had picked them up down in Camden Locks, London, at the market for $20. Wish I had bought 4 or 5 pair to keep me marching my entire life. They were the best! And had steel toes to prevent smashing your toes from something falling on them or from kicking someone in a hard spot.
They finally gave out about a decade ago during a big snow storm in Berlin as I marched through the city on New Year’s Eve… absorbing all the fluids from a pub crawl.
Ha… the internet is great… even found a photo of them…
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Very nice.
Very close to a pair my dad had custom made in Auckland before spending WWII in them.
I wore them years ago hunting for three seasons before I outgrew them. Lard them up and they were water proof. They were 22 years old then and still had some volcanic ash from Iwo Jima caked between the sole and the upper. Never did get cracks in the leather. They’d been in jungles, too. Most comfortable things I ever wore. Wish I hadn’t outgrown them.
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@drgnslayr NOT sexy!
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@VailHawk OH.
I thought you meant he came out…
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You kill me! I swear we share the same brain…I considered changing the wording immediately after typing but decided to leave it. Thx for the accountability!!!
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@VailHawk that’s scary!!
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Gheez… never thought of that! Perhaps I should have!
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@VailHawk Lol - no worries - your brain is much smarter than mine!! But that IS the first thing that ran through mine when I saw it…
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I just seen this which means I won’t have to see the Badgers in those hideous tournament unis.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/25331284
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@wissoxfan83
Giga news. Maryland too.
Duopoly, meet oligopoly.
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Maryland was one of the first Under Armor school. The founder of Under Armor attended college at Maryland and got the initial ideas for sports gear while playing football there. Maryland is to Under Armor what Oregon is to Nike.
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Under Armour the juggernaut.
Relentless.
Just keeps coming.
If I were Nike, I would have created Under Armour.
And Chuck Taylor Converse II.
Wait! Did Nike buy Converse?
Hmm.
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Roger Morningstar was with Converse,wasn’t he?
Back when everyone said 40% from trey Brady only played because his dad was Roger.
Why can’t a KU alum like the Adams family, or the Anschutz family, or the Boothe family start a PetroShoeCo line and anchor it with KU.
Come on!!!
Lets do this the right way.
This relying on 2-4 star bigs and dreaming about an OAD from Timbuktu getting cleared is for non elite programs.
We’ve got to get to where KUAD is run like a for profit not for profit. Capice?
We’ve got to get a pipeline of KUAD only players.
We’ve got to understand that KUAD has nothing to do with KU.
KUAD is what we root for.
Not KU.
And we need vertical integration BADLY.
Vertical integration, baby.
From KUAD shoe factories (screw just contracting with producers there) in Industrial City Indonesia, or in the new 130M person Chinese super city, to KUAD flagged container ships bringing them to Ixtapa, to KUAD flatbed rolling stock to run the KUAD containers full of KUAD shoes to Dick’s Gebaur, to KUAD Whites to tow the crimson and blue containers to Lawrence for students and athletes to sell out on the streets of Lawrence, to KUAD dump trucks bringing the players to AFH, to KUAD crimson and blue debt notes monetizing the whole shebang, to a KUAD investment bank to take spin-offs public, etc.
We’ve got to get serious about the real economik of basketball.
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KU has something few D1 schools have…
Basketball history? Yes…
The inventor of the game? Yes.
But what sticks out from a profit point of view is our brand. The Jayhawk is solid gold. Can’t be mistaken for any other mascot. Compare the Jayhawk to the KSU Wildcat… an off-the-shelf logo.
Cha-ching!
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Yep, that crazy bird is like the Mickey Mouse of sports.
No one wants to admit they like it, but everyone recognizes it.
Everywhere.
Its amazing.
It is one last symbol grounded to something real in a sports sign market, where signs have meaning only in relation to other signs, as Baudrillard might have said had he lived.
The Jayhawk is a pure symbol that has no meaning relative to anything other than Kansas, KU and basketball. The Jayhawk goes to ground on four concrete realities: the geographicalyl specified place of Kansas where Jayhawkers rightfully charged Texas cattle drivers tolls for trying to let their longhorns trample our prairie and eat our prairie grass for free; the university on Mt. Oread; KU basketball fielding a team each season; and James Naismith now resting for eternity not far from the AFH.
Roooooock…Chaaaaaaalk…Jaaaaaay…Haaaaak
Gooooooooo KAAAAAAAAAY Uuuuuuuuuuuu!!!
The KSU Wildcat grounds to nothing.
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This is a great shoe that has been horrible mis branded for the times.
What flipping century do the guys that did this graphic live in?
It should be Chuck Taylor All Star 2.o.
Next.
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Yes… that bird! I wore him overseas and a big chunk of people recognized the bird, but didn’t know what was behind it. One thing for sure… it is impossible to forget the image of the bird once you’ve seen him.
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Thx 4 the research and beautiful red Chuck pic.
The Jayhawk and Chucks both are bewitchingly iconic.
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Almost forgot…thx for the scoop on UA origins.
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The Chuck Taylor All Star II is what Cary Grant would have worn…if he ever wore sneakers…'nough said. I am getting a pair of black Chuckie Twos…:)
