How Victor Cruz and Nike Brought Sneaker Culture to the NFL
The Complex Sneakers Podcast
Complex
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne, and Matt Welty. This week, the three co-hosts talk to former NFL Giant and Super Bowl winner Victor Cruz about his sneaker resume. Cruz talks about how he got his own Nike shoe, getting royalties on every pair sold, and the lengths he's gone to to get shoes. He even reveals some details about former teammate Odell Beckham Jr. considering signing with Adidas instead of Nike. Also, Welty relives a college memory of calling out someone's fake Bapes and Brendan and Joe discuss Italian food.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everybody? It's Joel LaPuma. You are watching. You are listening to Complex Sneakers podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | We're here, as always, with my man, Matt Welty. |
| 0:10.0 | Kind of bright and early. |
| 0:12.0 | Bright and early. It's a little earlier than usual. And of course, his stomach's growling. |
| 0:17.0 | I don't know if he had breakfast. |
| 0:18.0 | Hungry, man. |
| 0:19.0 | Mr. Brendan Dunn, how you doing? |
| 0:21.0 | That's all I'm, I'm, I'm hungry. That's what I'm doing. |
| 0:23.0 | We will work through it. We'll get the energy up. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, the green room, you know, usually in my rider, |
| 0:29.0 | anytime I'm performing. |
| 0:31.0 | What's on it? |
| 0:32.0 | I like the green room to be pretty stocked. |
| 0:35.0 | Couple, couple boxes of cliff bars. |
| 0:37.0 | Okay. |
| 0:38.0 | Lots of, lots of dice pineapple. |
| 0:40.0 | Wow. |
| 0:41.0 | Yeah. No, actually, I'm off the cliff bars. |
| 0:43.0 | That was a little, a little bone for Welty because Welty remembers. |
| 0:46.0 | No good. No, we're Brendan, when Brendan first started at, |
| 0:50.0 | as a, like a, was a news editor, |
| 0:52.0 | at SoulCollector. He had like a big box of cliff bars at your desk. |
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