today we're going to be taking a look at the oregon player exclusive air jordan 9. even
though this sneaker may look very simple and easy to review trust me there's a lot to go over and
if you guys didn't know by now my name is dj and this is the dna show on this channel i love giving
you guys reviews of early looks gr releases and especially pes like this not to mention it's a
organ duck pe hometown represent so when i got an opportunity to pick these up from soul steals
i could not pass up on it i'll talk about them a little bit later in the video but if you haven't
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you could be the next one to get us there so like typical fashion before we start breaking down this
sneaker we gotta talk about the history first when it comes to the air jordan 9 in particular
this is a model that was originally seen back when jordan retired from the nba and decided to go play
baseball instead during that time it was the 93-94 era and we even saw michael jordan himself wearing
jordan 9 baseball cleats out on the diamond some of those baseball cleats are worth a lot
of money in current time which is a whole another video on a whole another topic so with that brief
explanation right there speeding up a little bit to current time we have the 2010 sample that
was made for the football team for the 2011 bcs championship now the oregon ducks football team
has been to the championship a couple of times and we have fallen short unfortunately which we'll
talk about in a second but basically the oregon ducks were on their way to the bcs championship
jordan brand decided to surprise him with a pair of special player edition sneakers and it was this
model right here i'm not sure if they actually knew what they were getting themselves into but
this was the start of something ridiculous as you all know more and more people are starting to fall
in love with the oregon duck pes over the years and because of that all the shoes are starting
to skyrocket in price but this shoe in particular was the sneaker that a lot of the players got and
i vividly remember this time i was just getting out of high school we were a freshman in college
during the time and i remember all the homies on the football team shout out to lamik shout
out to dt shout out to jeff males there's a trust me there's a bunch of homies on the squad back in
the day but during this time you could literally trade you're not going to believe me but i'm
telling you the truth you could literally trade a pair of retro gr sneakers for organ duck 9 pe
straight across to the players it was that simple hey bro you want this you want that
all you need uh this regular retro jordan 7 retro oh i'll trade you for your organ nines like it was
that simple so basically the cost of this sneaker was worth a few hundred bucks at most and even
when the jordan 3 was introduced the following year to the football team in the pit crew and we
saw the white and black versions you could still spend five to six hundred dollars on the whole set
get the white and the black threes together for five to six hundred bucks the craze definitely
started to happen when the black organ 4 came out with the chrome green tab on the back everybody
loved that shoe and that was the first time that we saw oregon pe sell for over a thousand dollars
and from that point on it's just been ridiculous and trust me i can go on and on about these
stories because i literally lived through it and i remember getting all these shoes from back in
the day and still in the new modern day current ones now but either way at the end of the day
oregon has unlocked a beast and set the tone for all the college shoes to see pes and everything
like that and this shoe in particular right here was one of the starting founding fathers
of all this madness that we see in current time even when you think of unc oklahoma georgetown
florida gators ucla you name it all those pes probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't for this
shoe right here but these were definitely one of the game changers right here and i feel like are
highly unappreciated now before i get on into the details of the sneaker really breaking down the
outsole the mid soles the upper all that stuff we gotta mention i know i don't like it i'm an oregon
ducks fan but during this time as well there was a organ 9 pe as well for oregon state now that pe
was a white leather version with the black on the bottom and again i used to have that shoe i used
to have these i got rid of them like a bonehead shouldn't have done it because now they're up more
value than it was back in the day either way i'm getting them back in my collection now and i'm not
having to worry about it but at the end of the day they definitely had an oregon state pe as well and
it kind of sucks for oregon state because they always get the shortage of stick that's like their
only retro pe that was like solid like basically from there they got nothing after all those years
i feel bad for them low key but at the same time i don't really care so oregon ducks all
the way let's go baby stoned so anyways back on topic let's go ahead and start breaking down the
shoes starting from the outsole work on our way up so you look at the bottom of the shoe right
here you have your classic air jordan 9 outsole everything is the same there's no like crazy
differences when it comes to these and it being like a organ 9 pe or anything special like that
but there's a lot of history and uh nostalgia behind the jordan 9 outsole in particular
so when we date back again to 1994 you look at right here on the toes of both of these sneakers
there's different words and these have different meanings so i'm going to pop up a photo of the toe
of each sneaker the words and the translations from the languages that they mean on both shoes
because they are different when it comes to the left foot right here as you can see you got the
different words and then when it comes to the right foot as you can see right here you have
the different words in the different languages as well they wanted to make this like known as an
international sneaker so that's why they decided to put the different languages and the different
here there's a lot of details in this sneaker especially to say it was meant to still perform
and have traction on the court to see all these elements to the shoe and still be a performance
sneaker i really like how jordan brown was able to use that and still tell the story at the same
time now going to the midsole of this shoe you have more of a shiny black paint right here and
this is very similar to your classic nines that you would get with the white and black colorway
and then right here you have a white jumpman on the side on the little rubber piece and then on
the upper the upper is very very nice you have a really really nice suede on these and when it
comes to that there's going to be some major differences with these and the anthracite air
jordan 9's that came out maybe it was that like five or seven years ago something like that it's
been a little minute i thought was that 2015. i'll remember i gotta fact check that one but either
way when it comes to the quality of the shoe the organ 9 pe way better now looking at the eye stays
here you have a white plastic and a white leather here at the bottom and then you have a very thick
rope lace now you see typically a rope lace on the jordan 9 classic yes i'll get it but this is more
of a premium kind of a wax feel to it so it's a lot thicker and has a nicer feel to it as well
on the tongue of these two sneakers you have an air jordan branding right here stitched on the top
and then on the inside of the sock liners you got that classic kind of carbon fiber vibe which we
have seen recently on new pe's as well but this is kind of interesting because it was like the first
college pe right so they wanted to do something subtle yet clean at the same time and it was
also interesting because the players wore a white uniform in the championship game but they gave him
like this all black murdered owl air jordan 9 and where they gave their branding was on the back end
of the shoe typically you have a different symbol right here but on here you kind of got like a
silver type stitch and it's the oregon ducks logo here with the o and then you got the 23 stitch
like classic air jordan 9 style and then you got a nice suede material right here for the pull tab
very kind of raw and uncut vibe to it and then on the insoles all black insoles on there as well
so when it comes to the shoe clean murdered out look but high high quality and really nice
material so like i said earlier i got these from soul steals because i no longer have a pair of my
collection because again i got rid of these they weren't the right size and this time i got these
again and guess what they're not in my size but that's completely fine let me tell you guys about
soul stills real quick and then i'll explain to you guys my situation and hopefully you guys can
help me at the end of the video so basically soul sales is a monthly subscription service where you
can get good deals on sneakers they have samples pe's obviously a bunch of different gr's they do
restocks and shop drops and a whole bunch of free raffles each month there's a lot of cool things
going on their goal and initiative is basically to get everybody as many good deals as they can
possibly get them and try to get them shoes under the market value most of their jobs are typically
on sundays at 3 p.m pacific standard time and they do a huge drop with a bunch of shoes on the
website so you always want to tap in on sundays around three o'clock and you can potentially find
a gym like this so if you ever want to check them out i made sure i got a link for you guys down
below in the description or pinned in the comment section i've been using them for over a year now
i love them i don't ever plan on stop using them anytime soon but this is one of my dilemmas okay
hear me out this is what happens this is a problem it happens sometimes when you collect too many
shoes sometimes you don't get stuff in your size and this is what happened before having this shoe
never had it in my size couldn't wear the shoe now we have a size what size was this again
i think it was 11 and a half or 11. yeah we got a size 11 and a half but i'm a 13.
so as you guys can see right here great condition sneaker i'm not trying to sell these
only if i can get a size 13. so if you want to buy the shoe from me that's fine but i'm
not going to sell it to you until i find a 13 or if i can get the trade for the 13
or if you can get the 13 and trade it to me for the 11 whatever it may be at the end of the day
i need a size 13 in the organ nines because i want to wear these and these are really clean and nice
and a great addition back to the collection for the whole you know completing the set
and everything but at the same time i want the whole set in a size 13 so i'm glad to add these
into my collection i'm excited to give you guys a little bit of insight and detail about this shoe
and why i feel these are one of the founding fathers of college pe and don't get me wrong
there were other college pe's that had already came out remember the unc 13s or the jayhawk 13s
fire shoes don't get me wrong but i feel like the start of the organ era right here this is the shoe
that started it so yes there were more pes before that i get it i understand trust me i know about
all that stuff too but i definitely feel these are at least one of the founding fathers at the
end of the day so let me know what you guys think down below in the comment section and
again i'm looking for a size 13 so please help your boy out if you see a pair for a good deal
or somebody's trying to do a trade or you can buy the 13 and make that trade with me whatever it
may be i just need a size 13. so i appreciate you guys as always shout out to soul steals for taking
care of your boy again and i think that's gonna do it i'll see you guys another one all right
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if you made it to the end of this video and you remember watching that 2011 bcs game
we should have won that's all i'm saying we should have won i remember to play the dude got tackled
but he didn't technically get tackled and then it was all downhill from there and it kicked
field goal and then oh it was just all bad so if you guys can remember that era or remember that
time or haven't seen it yet in the and you know you just got to go look it up i don't know either
way just let me know what was going through your mind because i vividly remember watching that game
and now the only thing that's burned in my skull is seeing cam newton hold that trophy
all right you guys gotta go go ducks we're so good though that's the thing like we're not bad
we're just not great but are we great like we got a good record
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