Jordan Flight 9:

About Jordan Flight 9

What started in 2005 with the Dub Zero has clearly gone a few steps too far. While Jordan Brand has seen success with retro mashups like the prior mentioned, the Spizike, and a little with the 6 Rings, the Jordan Flight 9 does not fit into the win column. While one can probably list off all the different retro models that were thrown onto the silhouette in an entropic manner, bottom line, it doesn’t matter. For too long Jordan has hobbled down easy street with the crutch of great shoes of the past and some time, some where, a line needs to be drawn. Jordan Brand and their design team have come up with designs and technologies that deserve the highest of praise and because of their past success, it is hard to accept that these shoes will bear the same name and logo as the greatest of all time. Michael Jordan wore number 9 to Olympic gold medals in the 1984 and 1992 games. ’92s Dream Team is probably the single most memorable, and certainly the most dominant group in all of team sports. Will we say the same about the Air Jordan Flight 9? A combination of aesthetic jumpoffs from shoes he wore in the earlier part of the span between those two Olympiads, these Fall ’10 Flight 9s add eBay Olympic coloured accents to an all back upper. There’s also another pair with white in place of black on the way, which begs the question: can you see yourself in this new high-contrast Flight 9 design?