Sweepleft Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 7:55 am
I dont like the kappa jerseys, they are too tight and nipple revealing.
HAHAHAHA! I feel the same way.
I want to support Italy, but living in San Francisco I can't walk around in a shirt like that, I would get harassed. I ended up buying one of the older shirts that doesn't show show off my nips.
I do think that thoes shirt are going to be used a lot more though. They are harder to grab on to and pull, so I woulnd't be suprised if a lot more teams started wearing the same kind of shirt.
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One the Nike issue.
I heard Nike sucks ass and should never be talked about again. I refuse to buy anything that is Nike. All I buy is Adidas and Kappa, but to answear the Nike ?'s here is the deal:
A brief history of Nike:
The Nike athletic machine began as a small distributing outfit located in the trunk of Phil Knight's car. Nike emanated from two sources: Bill Bowerman's quest for lighter, more durable racing shoes for his Oregon runners, and Knight's search for a way to make a living without having to give up his love of athletics. Bowerman coached track at the University of Oregon where Phil Knight ran in 1959. Bowerman's desire for better quality running shoes clearly influenced Knight in his search for a marketing strategy.
NIKE, pronounced NI-KEY, is the winged goddess of victory according to Greek mythology. She sat at the side of Zeus, the ruler of the Olympic pantheon, in Olympus. A mystical presence, symbolizing victorious encounters, NIKE presided over history's earliest battlefields. A Greek would say, "When we go to battle and win, we say it is NIKE."
The SWOOSH logo is a graphic design created by Caroline Davidson in 1971. It represents the wing of the Greek Goddess NIKE. Caroline Davidson was a student at Portland State University in advertising. She met Phil Knight while he was teaching accounting classes and she started doing some freelance work for his company. Phil Knight asked Caroline to design a logo that could be placed on the side of a shoe. She handed him the SWOOSH, he handed her $35.00. In spring of 1972, the first shoe with the NIKE SWOOSH was introduced.