Help me find the name of a shoe... "The Onion"

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About 7 to 10 years ago there was a Nike ad on the back of one of my SLAM or some other magazines. It had a nike shoe with a hazy pattern in the heel areaof the shoe, almost like a hypnotic pattern. I remember seeing them at Foot Locker, and have never seen them since. In the picture, their was a close up of aguy wearing them, and he had written "Onion, makin the D cry" ...or somethin like that. Does this jog anyone's memory? thanks for any help

edit : checked out the sole system as well... couldn't find it.
 
I remember seeing that Ad writing the same thing on my Questions
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. Iknow what shoe you're talking about and know what it looks like, but the name escapes me. Damn this is gonna bug me until I find out.
 
Air Flightposite. I was doing focus groups back then and that was the exact phrase used to introduce the shoe. One of the few times I was absolutelyfloored by a product.

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Funny enough, it's claimed the Flightposite was actually created by three scientists who used a knife, car, and onion as inspiration.
 
Originally Posted by CWK


Air Flightposite. I was doing focus groups back then and that was the exact phrase used to introduce the shoe. One of the few times I was absolutely floored by a product.

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Umm, i could see (slightly, but stretching it really. only with igotthatfire247's onion, knife and car link it kinda madesense) how it resembles from what he said but in no way do i see the "hazy/hypnotic pattern" at the heel......unless he meant the iridescence of somef the cw's?....and to the original dude, if it were the FP's how on earth could you 4get those!?
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with his heel explanation i was thinkin somethin with a pattern along the line of :
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sort of pattern,but thinking of these type of images, still doesnt ring a bell.....but if its the FP's, well i guess it is....(coming to think of it a shoe probablyincorporating a pattern of that sort above would be sorta cool- thinkin cap Nike!? and BP?)....that eye-stay pattern might probably make some"unfocused" defenders/opponents dizzy during free-throws or something
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Maybe the "Onion" in the slogan was referring to the player's nickname? As in Sauce of AND1? I don't think it would have referred to the shoeitself....
 
^lol...true, never thought of that, furthest thing on my mind in shoes design really, but would be interestin imo
 
at first i was thinking of the shoe that was inspired by a nerf football.. but no hazy pattern there. early 2000s or so.


i probably have that SLAM though, i had almost all of them from #19-60 or so, when they still had actual articles and not just all pictures.
 
I remember that ad now.
The shoe wasn't in SOLE SYSTEM because it wasn't a general release - it was a Venator exclusive Uptempo model (Foot Locker/Champs).
It was a black/gold colorway and the upper featured an overlasted medial heel similar to the Jumpan Vindicate.



But a lead designer DID tell me that they called the FP1 the Air Onion in pre-production because it would make you cry.
 
It was not the Air Flightpostite.

Could have very well been from the Uptempo series. By the looks of that Jordan shoe, I think we are on the same page about the heel (assuming overlasted heelrefers to it being steep and "tall" in a way) this was the case because I might have even tried a pair on, and the heel came very high up, much morethan a traditional mid. The "hypnotic" design was in greyish black and the lines ran vertically up the heel area.
 
OK in looking through my old SLAM magazines, it clearly wasnt from a back cover because in every issue I have, it's dominated by Adidas TMac ads'. Theonly other collection I had was The Source, if anyone has a collection from about 5 years ago, the picture might turn up on the back of one of the issues.
 
^ just searched that... none of the models under that name are the one im thinking of. Sorry if this is a wild goose chase, but I know someone out there mustknow what im talking about.
 
Originally Posted by doogie24

^ just searched that... none of the models under that name are the one im thinking of. Sorry if this is a wild goose chase, but I know someone out there must know what im talking about.

where are you searching?

it's a pretty obscure shoe and 7 to 10 years isnt going to make it easier to find.

i can barely find pics of the air signature player and that shoe was released en mass.

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the colourway isnt the one from the ad and it doesnt help with noticing detail but i feel pretty certain these are the one from the onion ad, which may or maynot coincide with the shoes you're thining of.
 
It wasn't the Air Uptempo Max. I also did a google image search and came up empty - it's killing me that I can't remember the name of the shoe. It was the Air ("Something") Uptempo and it was a Venator (Foot Locker) exclusive. Until that point, several footwear chains had carried exclusivecolorways of inline shoes, but this was the first time NIKE had agreed to let another company create an entire shoe if they committed to a minimum buy-inorder. That way, NIKE is guaranteed a sell-through and Foot Locker can drive business with a shoe nobody else has.

Clutchshooter - I'm almost positive that's it. What's it called?
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I got that picture on my wall to this day. I'll try to get some pics tomorrow. PM me if I forget about this post.
 
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I know exactly what you're talking about. Black Uptempos with that sort of hazy/marbly white/gray pattern that was divided into like three or four sectionstowards the heel. I'm not sure exactly when they released but I remember seeing them in middle school so around 2000-2001. They had Air Max at the heel andwere a lower tier shoe, like $100 or less I wanna say.

Funny thing is I've thought about these many times throughout the years and could never remember what they were called and never got around to making apost about it.
 
Clutchshooter... you are clutch

that is the shoe that I am thinking of, but the colorway is completely different.

CBWCrazy... that would be awesome if you could post that picture.
 
Originally Posted by Clutchshooter

Originally Posted by doogie24

^ just searched that... none of the models under that name are the one im thinking of. Sorry if this is a wild goose chase, but I know someone out there must know what im talking about.

where are you searching?

it's a pretty obscure shoe and 7 to 10 years isnt going to make it easier to find.

i can barely find pics of the air signature player and that shoe was released en mass.

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the colourway isnt the one from the ad and it doesnt help with noticing detail but i feel pretty certain these are the one from the onion ad, which may or may not coincide with the shoes you're thining of.
Just took pics of my pair. I hope this helps. If anyone is interested, they're size 10.5.

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