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S Friday Flashback: Wyoming Cowboy Basketball Camp T-shirt

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:00:00 +0000

“It’s Finally Friday, oooh what a Happy Day.”

So I wasn’t joking when I said that I loved the Wyoming Cowboys color combo. However it wasn’t until I sat down to do this post last night that I found these pictures of a Wyoming Cowboy Basketball Camp/Converse T-shirt. This beauty was on eBay a little while back, but of course it was in a way too small of size for this guy.

Well that’s it for today, I’m double dipping for Football tomorrow. First I’ll be in Lexington for the UK vs U of L game and then I’ll be making the trip out to Bowling Green for the WKU game later on tomorrow night. Crazy weekend coming up, but you’ve gotta love football season!

’s Blog Friday Flashback: Converse Jump Training Shoes

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:50:09 +0000

I want to apologize for the lack of post on here this week. As it turns out when there is an ice storm 40 miles away your internet quits working for almost 3 days. On Tuesday Kentucky got hit with snow, ice, and rain…we only got rain. Do you know how long 3 days is in Internet time? Don’t think about it too long or you’ll go insane. So I could be over reacting quite a bit, but I did feel completely unconnected to the rest of the world.

Anyway I am back with a great post for The Converse Blog’s Friday Flashback. Did you know that Converse used to make everything, well not everything but close. Recently I’ve seen a Converse rubber rain jacket on eBay along with some fishing boots. We’ve all seen something similar to these in Eastbay, but I’ve only actually ever know one person to buy shoes like these. There really aren’t many words to describe these shoes so just take a look.

I am pretty sure that idea for shoes like this is to keep your legs flexed and increase muscles size. It is a similar idea to Chicken farms that tie their Chickens down so that stand on their tip toes all of the time to increase muscle size. The only differences are that you can take these shoes off and people won’t eat your meaty legs from a bucket.

I’ll be talking about this more next week, but congrats to Jameer Nelson for being selected as an Eastern Conference All Star reserve. How big a deal is this? Well, Converse will have as many players in the All Star game as Jordan and Reebok, so I’d say it’s a pretty big deal.

Also if you get the chance check out the Marquette vs. Georgetown game tomorrow. All of the Marquette staff will be rocking the Converse Pro Leather 76 as part of the Coaches vs Cancer weekend. Also keep an eye out in the crowd as Converse will be hooking up the student section with some free t-shirts too!

The Converse Blog’s Friday Flashback: The Converse Stormgards

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:44:43 +0000

Sometimes you just can’t make stuff up, you know truth can be stranger than fiction. I recently found these gems on eBay. I’ve seen a picture of them before, but that picture wasn’t good enough to post. These however, are clear enough to show. I don’t have a clue when they were made, although I assume that they released during the 70’s give the nature of the Converse logo on the tag. When you look at these a few words might come to mind, ones that may or may not start with What The…. But the one word that should come to mind for everyone is the Warm.

See I told you these were crazy. Give these bad boys to John Varvatos and lets see what he can do with it. Anyway, I am out for the week. Big game this weekend between UK and Alabama so I am locked in for that one. Thanks for checking out today’s Friday Flashback and don’t forget to vote on your way out.

The Converse Blog: Pro Leather Canvas High

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:25:54 +0000

Happy Monday! Today I’ve got a real treat, the Converse Pro Leather Canvas. Granted that sound really weird to say, you know the whole leather/canvas thing. There are obvious difference between them, but I can’t think of another way to describe it. They are canvas with Chucks midsole and outsole, but with a canvas Pro Leather designed upper. Confused yet? Me too, so maybe I should just get to the pics.

A few years ago there were Canvas Weapons in much of the same fashion. Here are some more samples below. These pics have sample tags on them so I am not sure if they will actually be releasing. I found them on eBay.de, but the auction has since ended so I can’t link to it.

There is also a set of Pro Team Canvas shoes that I’ll be posting sometime soon. Thanks for checking out the blog, don’t forget to vote there are only a few days left.