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In 1962 Bowerman and Knight formed a partnership. Legend has it that they each kicked in
$500, shook hands and started importing. Truth is, it was probably closer to
$550 each. Pretty soon, shoes from Onitsuka Tiger started showing up on American
feet, brought into the U.S. by some nobody company named Blue Ribbon Sports
(BRS). Jeff Johnson joined Knight and Bowerman's Blue Ribbon Sports company as its first
full-time employee, selling shoes out of the back of his van at high school
track meets in 1965. In 1966 Johnson opened the company's first retail outlet in
a narrow building at 3107 Pico Blvd., in Santa Monica, California. Johnson is
credited with giving Nike its name.
Nike was founded in 1972 on a handshake between Bill Bowermann and Phil Knight. After just a single generation, Nike, named after the Greek goddess of victory, has grown to become the world’s biggest sports company. Nike works on all levels with athletes to develop innovative shoes, apparel and equipment for their particular performance needs. Nike is committed to offering every athlete in the world the highest level of innovation and inspiration.
Football is the focus of the Sports Inspired Collection Spring 2006. In brief, the new Nike Collection – from the heritage training shoe to the apparel styles of the high-performance sport line – combines Nike's history, sporting inspiration and an innovative design. There are styles, that are inspired by the first Nike football shoe, together with design elements that echo the Mercurial Vapor – Nike’s lightest football shoe.
"The Nike" combines innovative and stylish design – borrowing from Nikes first football shoe – and the exterior sole echoes the style of the first studded shoes. "The Nike" comes in selected colours representing the national football teams equipped by Nike, e.g. Brazil, Mexico and Russia, and in a high-quality leather version inspired by Japan.
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