today we are going to be taking a look at the air jordan 8 oregon pe they did a very special
job with only 100 pairs of these on stockx in collaboration with the university of oregon
and there was roughly another 150 to 200 pairs that were given to the players and staff of the
university of oregon football team so i'll be breaking down more details on the specifics of
the shoe the styles cuts materials the history all those different things i'm excited to crack this
box open and show you guys the first official look here on youtube so if you guys didn't know by now
my name is dj and this is the dna show looking at the box this gives us our og style when it
comes to the tan top and the orange bordering and everything like that you have a black jumpman here
on the top on one side you have a jordan branding here on the top of the lid and then on the back
side of the box you have quality inspired by the greatest player ever looking at the size tag you
have a sample tag here on the box this is what you typically get when you get a pe or a different
sample or exclusive sneaker something that's really limited on here reads air jordan 8 retro
uop white wolf gray lucky green b1 size 12 and a half just for me cracking up in the box you have a
little card right here and let's check this thing out first this is something that tinker typically
does when he writes notes to people or makes a little sketch of his shoes and everything's like
that and on here has a bunch of different arrows and different notes that point to different parts
of the shoe which we will get into later in the video but looking at some of the examples right
here this is the first black duck chenille patch that's ever been put on one of the shoes before
so this is definitely something big especially saying that they have a lot of african-american
students and athletes that are on the team so it makes sense to show some love to them
i know this could potentially be something that's slightly controversial to some people if they want
to make it an issue and everything like that but i can say i do appreciate them at least trying to
make an effort to show some recognition other arrows on this card point out different things
like explaining the material and at the bottom of the card it says a small amount may be distributed
to friends of the program so typically when oregon gets a pe not in a situation like this
but from ones in the past they'll have one for the players the coaches the family and everybody that
was a part of the design team and some ex players that may have played for the ducks in the past
and that's one reason why all these oregon ducks pes are so exclusive because there's typically
only a couple hundred pairs ever made so then it becomes harder and harder to find pairs because
people actually have them and keep them in their collections especially a dead stock pair because
a lot of people end up wearing them soon as they get them or the players are forced to wear them
when it comes to like a bowl game or whatever it may be so enough with all that let's crack
this box open and check these shoes out lifting up in the lid you got your brown paper right here
and then you got the shoe oh you got the shoe okay first impressions of this sneaker
honestly these aren't as bad as i thought they would be like from when i saw the images on the
internet i thought they were going to be like all right but the materials are actually really solid
but again it's just the colorway the colorway for me it's okay you know what i'm saying don't get me
wrong it's not bad but it's definitely not great in to each his own if you think these are the best
air jordan 8's of all time go ahead appreciate them all that you want honestly this is just my
opinion and i'm telling you guys how i feel about them there have been a lot of amazing air jordan 8
color ways to release over the years not just pes but grs as well i'm not sure if i could rank these
in the top five air jordan 8 of all time they're definitely dope don't get me wrong so before i
fully break down the styles cuts and materials we got to talk a little bit more about history first
and how all this hype got started and why this shoe released through stockx so i remember back in
like 2011 or something like that i don't remember exactly what year was but the organ 9 came out
and oregon had already been doing collaborations with the basketball team and different stuff like
that for certain basketball shoes we saw lebron oregon pes but the oregon nine dropped it was
like they're doing a jordan a retro jordan this is crazy the value of the shoe was nowhere near what
it is today you could literally trade gr shoes for oregon pes with no problem following that year we
saw the pit crew and the football team get the organ three pes and that was the same situation
you could literally pay somebody 500 bucks and get the whole set together get one of the black pairs
and one of the white pairs and have two different organ duck pes when it comes to the jordan 3. then
the hype slowly started to build up and then we saw the air jordan 4 come out and the next thing
you know people are willing to spend a thousand dollars for the shoe and it was like whoa this is
crazy like the price is starting to go up and then year after year after years we saw a new retro new
retro new retro new retro and the price just kept going up so over the past 10 years it's gotten to
the point where players were getting in trouble for selling their shoes because they were so
high valued and they wanted them to keep them and appreciate them but the players didn't have any
money so they needed money and all these different things and now players can start making money for
being athletes because they switch the rules and the leagues and everything so there's a lot of
different factors to this so one thing that phil knight did was create division street which was
another program that allows players to get brand deals sponsorships and opportunities to make money
for their name and their likeness and everything like that now that they're okay to do it so what
they decided to do was create enough pairs for all the players staff friends family everything
like that and then they made an additional 100 pairs and they were gonna auction them on stockx
one thing that raised a lot of flags for people was the fact that they were actually working
with stockx to do this project there's a lot more behind it than just the fact that they're working
with stockx they were taking all the money that was made from the auctions and then using that
money to disperse it throughout all the players so they have about 120 players on the football team
and there was a hundred pairs of shoes so say for example each shoe sold on average for four
thousand dollars they sold 100 pairs that makes four hundred thousand dollars that they could
then put towards the players divide four hundred thousand by 120 people and that gives you roughly
thirty three hundred dollars that they can now distribute the money to each player with and
the players don't have to worry about selling the personal prayers that they have for themselves but
honestly the way that they did it i'm not too mad about the whole situation because they're
trying to make an effort to allow the players to still be able to keep the shoes allow them to make
money from the shoe if they would have sold it but they didn't have to worry about going through the
process of selling it and all they had to do was just be a part of the program not drop out
or not get kicked off the team so as you can see right here this pair has the stockx tag on them
i got these from mystery box if you haven't seen that video i just recently uploaded it go check
that out i'll try to pin it for you guys as well had a great time unboxing these it was i was so
surprised because these literally just dropped those stock eggs everybody just got them in
the mail so for me to be able to have them in my collection now definitely a happy camper so enough
with the yada yada hoopla all that different stuff i know y'all want to see the details of the shoe
let's get into it starting with the outsole you have your classic air jordan 8 outsole
this one has a different twist typically there's some type of pattern right here on the center of
the foot this one's actually just murdered out all black and then you got the black rubber here on
the back with the lime green in the front and the green jump man here on the ball of the foot going
to the midsole you have a two-tone green and gray hit right here black on the toe black on the back
and then you have a satin finish metallic back pad right here like i was saying before on the
bottom of the foot they usually take that same pattern and put it on the side right here where
the black piece is but they just murdered it out in all black so if you look at the playoff eights
or the aqua eights or something like that you can see what i'm talking about when it comes to the
pattern that they put on the side looking at the toe of the foot you have a ultra suede gray vamp
going to the side of the foot you have a perforated suede here around the ankle and the
two panels below it going to the white leather on the shoe you have the same mixed textures as well
you got the perforated straps right here with the 23 on the top and then you have a smooth
white leather here on the back end of the foot these come equipped with a pair of white laces
and a black nylon tongue and like we talked about earlier this is the first ever black duck that we
have seen on an oregon jordan looking behind the tongue and in the sock liner you have a terry
cloth material with the gray and green right here green on the pull tab and the insole is all black
with the green jumpman and we can't forget the final touches with the black leather air jordan
strap here on the side of the foot and the metallic green lock that holds it all in i'm
sure they did this because it looks very similar to the helmets that they rock so now it's time
to talk about opinions see what everybody else thinks about the sneaker as well i posted a poll
on my story asking if this shoe was fire or trash so if you haven't already make sure you follow me
on ig that way you can participate in the polls and see all the results here on the channel 88 of
the people chose fire and 12 percent of the people chose trash and that completely makes sense in my
eyes i thought these would be somewhere around 90 i definitely wouldn't see 100 obviously not
everybody's gonna like every single shoe or they don't like the ducks or whatever it may be so now
it's time to hear what you guys have to say drop a comment down below and let me know what you think
about this shoe what you think about the release do you plan on going after the shoe what do you
think about the value all those different things this shoe is currently going for around 3 300
people are asking around 4 500 i don't think that they're gonna sell for that price right now
they could potentially go up in value over time we shall see but i know for a fact this
is easily a three thousand dollar shoe so i'm happy to add these to my oregon pe collection
i gotta actually now complete the whole set again i used to have all these different pairs and
got rid of a couple of them because they were my size and all these different things i missed
out on the oregon sevens i need to grab those i need to get the oregon 14s too i guess i should
get the green in the gray pair i don't know we'll see i'm gonna i think i'm gonna complete the whole
set and i'm gonna go after that again it's been a while but these definitely rejuvenated my fire
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if you made it to the end of this video drop a comment down below and let me know what is your
favorite air jordan oregon pe that has ever been released to the players i'm talking about oregon
fours oregon fives pit cruise duck man's fi oh bro there's just a lot of good options honestly
i don't even know which one's my favorite i have to get back to you guys on that one
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