Would Nike Really Do This? / Ken Griffey Jr Cleats

[B1SON]

That completely floors me that they made Griffey color his own shoes. WOW!

[RyanZimmerman11]

That completely floors me that they made Griffey color his own shoes. WOW!

I heard of this years ago. But this is the first time I actually saw the shoe up close. Pretty neat if you ask me.

It's "odd" but since it's known that they were colored like that I would have no problem owning a pair

Not to mention they're signed. Griff has a sweet sig.

[Carlevv]

The Orioles used to travel with a bunch of orange paint pens. Jim or Fred Tyler (brothers) the equipement would give them to guys to color their shoes orange. Nike wasnt making orange swooshes for them so guys would color them orange. As far as Griffey, he always wanted to have different stuff than other guys. That would seperate him from others like some sort of star treatment i guess. His stuff is always cool to have. I like those teal shoes.

[B1SON]

They are definitely cool, but I would NEVER have believed (until I saw it and heard from several sources) that it's true.

The Orioles used to travel with a bunch of orange paint pens. Jim or Fred Tyler (brothers) the equipement would give them to guys to color their shoes orange. Nike wasnt making orange swooshes for them so guys would color them orange. As far as Griffey, he always wanted to have different stuff than other guys. That would seperate him from others like some sort of star treatment i guess. His stuff is always cool to have. I like those teal shoes.

[cammy collector]

the cleats on the right were customized as well. as some of you guys have said, he was notorious for doing so...

-Mike