Numbskull, idiotic, knownothing executives piss me off.

Sex. Yes, God of victory I am.

Gawd, get it right Nike. It's "After Dinner I Do A shiat".

Just raise the prices another $50.00 a pair.

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Just raise the prices another $50.00 a pair.

I paid $120 for a pair of running shoes, made by Adidas. Best $120 I ever spent.

I hate the new sneaker designs.I have trouble finding comfortable running shoes in 11EEEE sizes.

Weren't NIKE and ADIDAS originally founded by two competing brothers in Bavaria. Both shoe plants were in the same town.

BuzzBoy:

Weren't NIKE and ADIDAS originally founded by two competing brothers in Bavaria. Both shoe plants were in the same town.

RTFA. Adidas was founded by two brothers, one of whom later left Adidas and founded Puma.

Nike was founded by Bowerman and Knight.

These guys disagree



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This all happened in the eighties...

Actually, I think the history of those brands is pretty interesting. Are you supposed to buy Nikes and support third world sweatshops, or buy Pumas and Adidas to support Nazi-era capitalists?

I am curious. Can someone who practices in the patents area give us his/her assessment of the merits of this case? I have some questions: 1) how far does the patent reach (i.e: can I make a shoe with a "button" on it?) 2) what are the chances of this case being tied up in procedural limbo for the next few years, essentialy forcing a settlement, unless Nike gets an injunction? 3) can Nike win on the merits?

Man,I need Vans.

hooker:

Thanks for the history lesson. I totally forgot about PUMA and I used to own PUMA soccer shoes.

How come Nike gets a capital N, but adidas doesn't get a capital a?

Two Words:

NEW BALANCE.

Great farking sneakers.

Phinneas

The more important question is:

Why isn't NIKE in all caps?

" Priced at $250, the adidas-1 contains a microprocessor and claims to be the worlds first computerised shoe."

Wonder how long before there's USB shoes.

New Balance = no sweatshops, great shoes. Also I'd recommend a Spanish shoe company called Camper.

And BTW, who are the Icy Hot Stuntaz

Also, New Balance has, check this out, more than one width!

/ wears converse

/old school
//or maybe just old

Phinneas

How come Nike gets a capital N, but adidas doesn't get a capital a?


requinox

Phinneas

The more important question is:

Why isn't NIKE in all caps?


Because Nike is a proper name.

"Nike, named after the Greek goddess of victory"

I don't run much anymore, but I was always partial to Asics.

Oh, and Adidas is short for Adi Dassler, one of the founders. And yes, his brother (don't remember the name) founded Puma.

A Scot, Dunlop, invented air cushioning with the pneumatic tyre aaaages ago.

Nike will be trying to patent the shoe next.

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I found the history of the competing sneaker companies interesting.

/guilty of buying Nike and supporting child labour abuse :P
//need to find a fair trade athletic clothing company

Nike can suck it. Adidas rulz, dood.

I was watching my DVD of "Aliens: Special Edition" just the other day and noticed that Ripley was sporting a pair of Reeboks just before she climbed into the loader before disembarking.

So I say, let Nike and Adidas fight it out, since it's pretty clear who's going to be the real winner a century from now.

In Pakistan, no less: http://www.american.edu/TED/nike.htm

nothingyet
Two Words:
NEW BALANCE.
Great farking sneakers.

I'll have to try them. I usually get kicked when I wear shoes to bed.

Nice headline...

To date, I've never run across anyone else who's heard this one:

Apples Dipped In Diarhea Are Scrumptious

If you ask me, both shoes look horrid. They really need to send those poor Asian kids to a design school or something.

TimBilly: If you ask me, both shoes look horrid. They really need to send those poor Asian kids to a design school or something.

Those are hideous. It looks like a shoe only a 13 year old would like. Maybe thats their primary market now days

blazemongr: Yeah, Adidas, because they just bought Reebok :)

Keds

Quick, someone send SCO a dump of the firmware running that shoe!

Have them call me when they make a shoe that can put out an oil slick.

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The only running shoes I've owned that were better than Adidas ClimaCools are my current pair of ASICS.

ASICS are so very comfortable. Better than New Balance IMHO.

/Anima Sana In Corpore Sano

2006-02-18 08:47:29 AM Marcus Aurelius


19 patents covering a spring in a shoe? Hell, I fastened springs to my shoes back in '69. I claim prior art.


Sorry. You lost your claim to it by not protecting it all this time.

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///whatever happened to going barefoot?

I used to be a big supporter of Nike, I would always buy their top-of-the-line Super Air Max Whateverthefark It Was Called shoes, and about a decade after they came out with the air bubble things which had worked well up till then, I noticed a pattern with the latest shoes I was buying. Within three to six months, one of the air bubbles would get a leak and deflate, which was uncomfortable and probably not good for my feet and posture, but worse than that, usually it would squeak with every step. So I'd be walking down a hallway and it would be like "(step), (squeak), (step), (squeak), (step), (squeak)". And sometimes it would sound like a fart. After this happened with three pairs in a row, I decided I couldn't be replacing a $100 pair of shoes this often, and said goodbye to Nike. This was shortly before they came out with Shox, so it probably works differently now, but that was enough for me.

Maybe it's because as an eight-year-old white girl from Long Island I bought my first Run DMC album and was subconsciously influenced to buy Addidas, but I have stuck with them ever since. And I think they fit my feet better.

2006-02-18 07:58:30 AM meekychuppet

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This all happened in the eighties...

And in passive voice too...

/English major

Anybody else out there notice that nike basketball shoes and new SUVs are starting to look the same? Check out the RAV4, it looks just like a friggin basketball shoe. Anybody, or is it just me?