People rioting over new Air Jordans - really

[WolvEagle]

Apparently, it's happening all over the country, including this mall in suburban Detroit:

http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2011/12/23/news/doc4ef49c4def080984825153.txt

Seriously. Over shoes.

 

[WolvEagle]

And this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45777268/ns/us_news-life/t/police-pepper-spray-shoppers-nike-shoe-release-prompts-nationwide-mall-chaos

 

[LongTimeListener]

You'll never see people rioting over Air LeBrons, the loser.

 

[FileNotFound]

So. ****ing. Ridiculous.

 

[Batman]

You'll never see people rioting over Air LeBrons, the loser.

They'll riot an hour before the store opens, then disappear when they unlock the doors.

 

[rmanfredi]

80s nostalgia strikes again. I wonder if Tiffany was playing at any of those malls.

 

[FileNotFound]

I had a pair of the *original* Air Jordans in '86. Apparently I should have kept them: http://compare.ebay.com/like/170658545472?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Houston:

Seattle:

Charlotte:

Atlanta:

Michael Jordan shoes in 2011? Really? REALLY?

 

[LongTimeListener]

It is kind of funny that the NBA's current marketing frenzy involves the man who was by far the most anti-player figure of the entire labor mess.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

If you go that ape**** over basketball shoes, you deserve what you get.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I had a pair of the *original* Air Jordans in '86. Apparently I should have kept them: http://compare.ebay.com/like/170658545472?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar

Same here. My mom got them for me for the first day of junior high. I felt so cool walking in them for the first day of class.

And then ... junior high and high school were all downhill from there.

 

[qtlaw]

Really sad how there is such a pent up demand for this item. I love sneakers but to desire to be the 1st to have them? Really?

 

[bigpern23]

#firstworldproblems

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Put some Charlotte Bobcats tickets in the boxes. That'll teach 'em.

 

[HanSenSE]

Call me skeptical after 20something years in this racket, but it's like when a new IKEA opens ... how much of this is hype?

 

[Stitch]

Anyone getting stabbed over Raiders or L.A. Kings jerseys?

 

[holy bull]

Love the doofus in Atlanta who completely botches the Nike catchphrase. "Most of us probably remember the old Nike commercial with the line, 'It's the shoes' ..."

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

I'm not sure which is worse: rioting over a pair of over-priced shoes or actually paying for the over-priced shoes.

I don't think I've paid more than $40 ever.

 

[KJIM]

More money than brains. And more stupidity than both.

$40 is my cutoff, too.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

My God, you'd think an octogenarian got fired or something.