today i'm going to be telling you guys the entire story on how i got these
shoes right here for free you're not going to believe it
but trust me you will by the end of the video
welcome back to the channel what's up with you guys how you doing how you been
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owe so much and with all that being said we
need to talk about this shoe bro because i'm telling you right now you still not
gonna believe this story until it is over
but i'm gonna need one key essential and that is my boy jaren
i gotta have him here to help me tell this story because he is the one that
helped me get the shoes all right let's bring him on
all right what's going on guys my name is jaren i got these shoes
from my boy josh freeman he and i were roommates together at kansas state where
we played football he's the first round pick by the tampa
bay buccaneers quarterback doing his thing out there in tampa for the first
few seasons and ultimately ended up getting a
sponsorship by the jordan brand anyway i was playing for the dolphins and we were
in new jersey new york area for a charity
golf tournament and we went downtown manhattan we're out
walking around and all we have were these golf shoes
and i was like god get me out of these things i'm tired of walking around
everywhere feet feeling like crap somebody's got to have something for me
and josh was playing for the giants at the time he pulled up popped open his
trunk and said hey man i got some some shoes for you boom bust
these things out the box said hey man you know they're nice shoes
special uh not a lot of them out there so i
figured you'd like them because i know you like jordan's which i do
so he just gave him to me i threw them on warm around the city
they're pretty comfortable a little tight i'm a 14 these are 13 and a half
but uh yeah i just got those right then kinda out of nowhere spur of the moment
and uh really liked them held on to them brought him on home with me after that
trip to new york uh put him in a closet and there they sat so 2013 i was coming
off of a major injury but i was trying to make my comeback to
football and i knew i could do it i was always at the practice facility each and
every day trying to get better and that's when i met my boy jaren out
there so dj and i be together nearly every day
working out hitting the weights hitting the prehab getting the body right
hitting the field getting the routes in but
you can only do so much that one day and usually by noon one o'clock
we'd be all done and wrapped up so one day a nice
oregon day rolled along high 90s so he had just recently purchased a boat
and he had loved getting on the water had to get on the water we weren't
planning on it but it's one of those days where you knew hey
we can't let this day go by without getting on the boat so me personally you
know i mean i like the water and all but i
just wasn't really the water type no for real he is bad but i do give him
props he got out there he tried it he stuck with it
didn't shy away from it and now he's not too bad so on this day in particular
i wasn't prepped to go on the boat nobody was planning on going on a boat
it was just a nice day and everybody just agreed like we got to get on the
water so i went over to jiren's house and what
we always do is we prepare the boat make sure everything is ready when it comes
time to get on the boat you got to do a lot of things get it prepped
ready to go so you can get out there and just fully relax obviously working out
got to get those gains up so i would always grill up at least five pounds of
chicken oh yeah five pounds of chicken that's right i
needed all that then we get the coolers ready get the drinks ready
get all that set up and then dj's over here doesn't have clothes because again
it was a surprise for the moment day so yeah i didn't have anything to wear i
wasn't planning on driving all the way back home because we just live on two
different sides of the city and it just didn't really make sense
so i said hey man just head on upstairs i've had enough gear accumulated
throughout my time that i know there's something in there that'll fit you
so just head on out there grab something meet me back down here and we'll get on
with it i went upstairs and i was like okay what am i gonna get yeah all right
well i looked and i'm like brothers bins everywhere it's like all organized ever
since i moved out and like i said kept accumulating more and more cleats
gloves athletic shirts tank tops shorts you name it
my dad just started organizing them by the bins so this is the gloves bin
this is the cleats bin this is the shirt's been this the tank top's been
and so on and so forth so i had everything nicely laid out there
for me upstairs and what was my bedroom growing up
now just turned into a big closet i like your style so i'm kind of
you know i'm looking around like okay what fits me you know he is a little bit
taller than me a little bit wider than me but we do wear similar inside so it
does make sense i could find something in here right and then i look
down and i look up and i look over and i'm like hold up bruh
this is not real i see these right here sitting in his closet and then dj just
yelled from nowhere darren come up here right now like what
are you yelling about man this can't be that serious i
know there's nothing up in my room that's worth yelling about
i come on upstairs and there's dj with these shoes like bro what you doing with
these like i need those i know you don't fit these like what's
up bro how did you get these shoes these shoes
what do you want to talk about these shoes for they're just some j's there's
some fives you know i like them they got a little symbol on them i think
it's cool i haven't seen a colorway like this
i didn't know there was much that special to him and then dj filled me in
so then he tells me the story how he got the shoes and i'm like bro
no way like this cannot be real so you know what i had to do i said what's up
bro they don't fit yo i mean what's up you trying to sell them to me
let me let me know i pay you some money you just tell me what you need me to do
i didn't want to give them up because they were a gift to me
and they were a special funny spur of the moment thing that
you know i cherished and held on tight so i didn't want to give them up to them
quite you know at that moment and i was like you know what
that's okay i'mma respect it but if you ever get rid of these
i need them but i did realize if i was going to give them up to somebody it's
got to be the dj so time goes on you know we kind of both
forget about the shoes we go about our regular lives now i ain't gonna lie to
you like that first year i was kind of asking them a couple times
like what's up bro i mean you still got them fives like
they still holding down in the closet over there like don't let them catch too
much dust right now because you know i'm gonna need those one day so time goes by
he decides to retire from the nfl yeah for those of you didn't know
obviously i spent a lot of time training and getting my body right playing
football so i decided to start my own facility out here in the portland
area helping people overcome injuries through physical therapy trying to get
ready for their season or just stay on top and stay in shape so they can go
hiking skiing whatever it is they like to do
or measure and assess their body and get a program that's right for them but
now with everything going on we got a killer online program so you can take us
with you wherever life takes you and stay in
shape with whatever you got in your room and there was this one day
he gave me a call he told me to meet him at the facility try to help him with the
video so you know i had to slide out help bro
and he told me he had something for me and i was like i wonder what it could be
finally last year i moved out of one of my houses
into a different house and my fiance said hey if you haven't worn anything in
the last year it's not coming over to the new house so i said all
right you know they got rid of a lot of stuff but i
still headed on tight to some small items even though i hadn't worn
them in over a year the shoes were one of them and i brought them on over and
there they sat and i've been in this new house now for
a year and still hadn't worn them and i said man
you know what he's got to get into it a pair of hands that'll really appreciate
him and take care of him so that's when i had to call dj and when
he handed me the shoes
thank you bro i didn't know what to do i just all i could say was thank you thank
you thank you like bro that is crazy it's been so long
almost seven years bruh damn it's been seven years i was thinking it'd been
like two maybe three not talking about monetary value but
sentimental value a shoe like this is in that category
because you create bonds with people by
literally giving trading selling to people for the low whatever it is
and they have these stories behind them that means so much more than the value
of the sneaker and now this is something that i can
potentially pass on to somebody else someday
or continue to hold these in my collection which i plan to
it's going to be another seven years before i get rid of these if somebody
get them off of my hands when you first have me come running upstairs hollering
my name in the house asking me about these shoes i thought to
myself man one day when i do give you these shoes
even though it wasn't right then it took seven years but i knew once i gave you
those shoes it'd be awesome to do a video about them
and just rehash this story because even thinking about it just you know makes me
you know just feel good and i feel even better now that these shoes are in the
right hands and i just want to say again thank you
bro for letting me get these shoes and you know i'm gonna cherish these have
them in my collection yeah man glad you have them
i need to post the on foot picture on instagram real soon so stay tuned
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you guys my name is dj i'm signing out i gots to go i'm gone
peace
i just like the dancing you gotta do a little something with these hey
hey shoes
we have to have some good times in these shoes man wait
the question is did you win the golf game heck no
oh my i'm horrible come on now