Showing posts with label seinfeld. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seinfeld. Show all posts

Monday, May 9, 2011

The Original Sneaker Pimp.

Jerry Seinfeld is funny.  His comedy transcends generations and remains relevant.  The last Seinfeld episode aired in 1998, I was 12, so it's inaccurate to say that I grew up on Seinfeld, but because it dominated pop culture during my youth, subconsciously, I was subjected to quite a bit of Seinfeld.  I fell in love with the show when I started University and had more free time on my hands.  TBS aired gaggles of  re-runs and I watched at least an hour of Seinfeld every day. Jerry Seinfeld also has a ridiculous sneaker game.

I can pinpoint when and where my shoe fetish began. My parents were in Lake Placid and came home with a pair of Black Nike Air's. Nothing exclusive or limited about these shoes, but to me, they were the sikkest sneakers I had ever laid my eyes on. My mom had always kept me laced in the illest velcros as a youngin'.  After my 1st pair of airs were given to me I began dreaming of Nike's and being involved in all my shoe purchases, even if they were being made with parental duckets.  As a kid, even if I wasn't paying that close attention, I was always collecting subliminal pop culture messages and sneakers were slowly but surely getting cemented into my brain by Mr. Jerry Seinfeld.  It wasn't until I started paying closer attention and grew up that I realized the effect these messages really had on me as a kid.

Nonethless here is some of the heat Seinfeld used to rock: