today i'm gonna be showing you guys the oregon state nines i just got these back in my collection
and i'm definitely a happy camper we'll be going over all the reasons of why i got rid of the shoe
and how i got it back in my collection and talking about everything in between that if you didn't
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could be the next one to get us there let's take it back to 2010 when this shoe originally came out
and what this shoe means to not only me but everybody else that wants to have this shoe
in their collection as well during this time the university of oregon was on their way to a
national championship and we had saw that they got a special player edition shoe but during that time
the oregon state football team also got a shoe as well so with everybody having their attention
on the oregon football team and seeing them go into the national championship and their sneakers
the oregon state football team kind of just went underneath the radar but with me being an oregon
native and living in portland oregon i had knew about both sneakers and i wanted to have both in
my collection so the players at oregon state got their shoes at the end of the season and a lot of
people were easily trading these shoes or selling them for the low like i'm talking about you could
get paris for like 250 bucks with no problem and during this time i had known a lot more players
at oregon that i did oregon state so it was a little bit harder for me to track down a pair
and one of my friends actually ended up picking up a pair he had a size 13 but he was trying to
low-key tax in my head and obviously i understood that because during the time he got it maybe a
couple years after he was trying to sell him for like four or 500 bucks or something like that
and i'm thinking like bro that's a lot of money like i remember we used to be able to get these
for like 250 bucks so by this time it's around 2012 the shoes are worth around 500 bucks he ends
up selling the shoe and i'm like you know what it's fine i'll find a pair down the line it'll be
okay i ended up finding a size 12 and i got them for like 350 bucks and i was definitely extremely
happy about it but we had a major problem the shoe was a size 12 and i'm a size 13. so what does that
mean every single time i tried to wear the shoe i was taking the insole out trying to stuff my foot
in there rock it on short occasions of like oh i could wear this for a few hours or something
and it was just killing my toes i just couldn't do it any longer so a couple more years go by
and now it's like 2017 or 2018. i don't remember which year i want to say it was 2018 2018 comes
around and i'm like yo you know what i'm clearing out i'm selling a bunch of stuff i'm ready to buy
these houses and invest into other things let me just get rid of the shoes that i don't fit anymore
stuff that i'm not gonna wear and that happened to be the shoe that i was like i don't wear it
i can't fit it i know i love it i want it you know it represents my home state and everything
but at the end of the day like what else am i going to do with it but put it in a display case
so i ended up deciding to sell my pair to project blitz back in 2018 and it was a it was a sad day
to see the shoe gone but i was like you know what it's okay one day i'll find another pair and i'll
actually get a pair in my size that i can wear so time goes on i put the shoes on the back burner
you know what i'm saying it's not on my high priority list but you know if somebody ever says
hey size 13 oregon state you know i'm gonna be asking questions seeing like what's the price what
you're trying to do working in trades anything like that so flash to 2022 i end up going back
to project blitz my size 12 pair is still in their vault to this day but i walk in there and i'm like
yo there goes my size 12. i miss those so much but that's always a cool thing too like if you saw the
people that you know especially somebody like that it's cool because you could potentially just get
the same shoe back if you ever want to later down the line or something so that was always a cool
thing knowing that they were sitting in the vault and i could potentially you know just call them up
hey bro i want to get these back in the collection and then buy them back or trade or whatever so
that's always something to think about when you're working with different people and you're making
trades and doing deals especially when it's another collector that's not really a reseller
i know obviously they are resellers but in the sense of working with other collectors that you
know they're gonna put it in a good home take care of the shoe love and cherish it as well
then you could potentially hit them up years down the line and get that shoe back
which i have plenty of stories about situations like that which i've done over the years as well
but anyways like i was saying i was in the vault and i ended up seeing another
pair looks like blitz has a size 13 and a half right here and i'm like i can make that work so
i need these and i need these on the cheaper end there's a couple shoes that are a little
bit more expensive we'll talk about those later though so as you can see from the clip right
there i was like yo i gotta get these back in the collection and i ended up getting a couple
other things from the vault as well but we're just talking about this video in particular so
i have the shoes like i showed you guys earlier and i am an extremely happy camper and the cool
thing about this pair in particular is these are a size 13 and a half which some people are gonna be
like oh those are too big for you when i actually uh i low-key i'm like a 13 13 and a half and it's
perfect for my feet i tried these on these things fit amazing i am so happy because i finally got
this sneaker so that's kind of my backstory to the shoe and you know me telling you guys how i got
the shoe and everything now let's take some more in-depth looks at this sneakers so we can finish
off this video starting with the bottom of the foot you have your classic air jordan 9 outsole in
all black with the orange jumpman on the heel of the foot going up to the midsole you got a black
metallic paint with the black rubber and the white jumpman on the back and around the heel and then
on the upper you have a premium smooth leather and it's more of a faded kind of off-white color
compared to your classic like pure white and it gives that shoe that vintage vibe with the cream
laces and everything like that and you got more of a premium rope wax lace as well and then on
the back end you got an orange heel tab a orange oregon state logo and then an orange 23 and then
you got more of that hair and bone carbon fiber style sock liner with the all black right here
this is definitely a very clean shoe and honestly i'm going to give you guys my honest opinion i
know i'm a huge oregon ducks fan but again i want to represent my state so i got to make sure if
it's oregon or oregon state i want both of them in the collection but when i tell you this right here
the oregon nines i think the oregon state nines are better that's just in my opinion
i feel like i don't know let me know what you guys think down below in the comments section i
would love to hear you guys opinion i know i love oregon and obviously oregon gets way more pe's in
oregon state because essentially oregon state got this shoe right here and then the guy who is the
designer that was doing the colorways for oregon state design he ended up getting fired doesn't
work at nike anymore at least i heard he got fired i don't remember but either way the designer that
was working on this project doesn't work there anymore so then what they ended up not doing
any more oregon state pes after that and this was essentially like the first oregon jordan oregon
oregon state jordan pe that we saw on both sides of the realm like i know we had the 2010 you know
air jordan that was a whole we'll talk about that shoe as well when it comes to the oregon
uh 2010 version because yeah i don't know if you guys know about those anyways this
was like the first one and then this was like the last one right and i know everybody's like
well what about the oregon state mids yeah i guess you could say they got those a couple
years ago or last year i don't remember what year it was but either way yeah those should
we even count those i guess technically it is a pe and people are trying to resell them for like
1500 bucks right now which i think is crazy but that's a whole other topic again but yes um
it is unfortunate because we are here in oregon and i feel like both of these two universities
especially being big d1 schools uh should have a plethora of pes should have the best pes out
of every college in the country in my opinion but you know that's probably a bias i don't know you
know maybe but i understand north carolina i get that one as well but yeah let me know what you
guys think down below i'm excited to hear you guys's opinion about this shoe i am extremely
happy to add these back in my collection and give you guys an in-depth review and look at this shoe
i was looking at this uh on the internet i tried to search up just like oregon state nines
with a review and uh there really wasn't that many on the internet so hopefully this one can last the
tale of time and go ahead and stay on the internet for everybody so i can get a full in-depth look at
the shoe and everything but that's my story uh yeah see you on another one all right
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if you made it to the end of this video drop a comment down below and name three oregon state
football players that are just goats when it comes to oregon state you guys are probably
gonna have a hard time with this one but ah man there's some good people that came out
of oregon state on a low like you guys probably wouldn't realize it but there's a couple ballers
you