But it takes more than a marking on the side to make this model seem remotely conventional.
#WEATHERMAN FOAMPOSITES TV#
With the ‘posite process costing so much we’ve always assumed that Nike wanted to recoup on it and maybe got a little nervous about the low-key branding on the original version, particularly in front of TV cameras.
#WEATHERMAN FOAMPOSITES PRO#
Which leads us to the mystery of this shoe - why was the Foamposite Pro released in 1997? It’s ultra similar to the Foamposite One, and despite slightly more exposed carbon and an alleged (we can’t sense it) weight loss, bar the addition of a swoosh on the side, there’s not a great deal of difference. We don’t think many of the current Foam hoarders cared about the ‘Dr Doom’ Foamposite Pro when it dropped eight years ago - it was one of the best editions of this shoe ever. We loved the Paranormans, but that was the last time we cared about a Foam. It was like putting fancy rims and an airbrush picture of a dragon on a concept car. Weatherman editions looked like they were from Larry David’s freak books. Seeing the cash in the Foamposite franchise, Nike set about dropping more variations that played on that weirdness, but got it wrong by colliding franchises - elephant print and Safari would probably have been a moment in hype if they’d dropped a decade prior, but they just came off needy. It gave Nike the freedom to get really silly with an already madcap design, and it helped import a new strain of Americanised release mayhem when people brought tents to NikeTown and excitedly created a shanty town of sorts by Oxford Street. The Galaxy drop in 2012 was pivotal in engineering this. Some people got to pretend that they liked them all along and didn’t joke about the perennial pair of Foams in Slammin’Kicks over the years, some people realised that there was a pound or two in selling pairs to overseas fiends and some just got carried along on the excitement of it all. Back when the Harlem House of Hoops had a snaking trail of overnighters queuing to cop Coppers, downstairs in the Bond Street Foot Locker, it was tumbleweeds. In the UK, where basketball is a marginal sport at pro level, only players and connoisseurs of weird Nike cared. For everyone who liked the shoe that Bibby and Penny made famous, far more hated it.
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