It’s 2008. Football at any level, even high school, is huge money. Can’t they get kickers the same color shoes by now?
Nike will make anything for anybody. Why won’t they make a kicking shoe the same color as the other shoe. Why don’t they sell kicking shoes in pairs - one shoe that has the special kicking thing or feel or whatever makes it magically delicious to kickers, and then the other could look just like it but be a regular cleat.
My biggest complaint about football kickers with two different shoes is that I’m pretty sure Nike or any other manufacturer could do this but I think kickers just want to maintain a separatist, dorky role and having one black shoe and one white shoe just helps set them apart from the real football players.
Subscribe to sportsdork
I think they wear them because they don’t want the other team to mistake them for real football players. That way the other team won’t hit them. It’s like wearing glasses when playing football.