^I love XV and XVI threads. You
get to find out who's who. If you catch a guy rattling off about how sorry the XV is, and how no one had those when they came out, and how more people were focused on retros back in the year 2000, you know you got a noob. A new-booty faking like they were really apart if the culture during that era.
It's REEEEEEEAAAL hard to imagine someone being of age and into Air Jordan sneakers in 2001 not having fond memories of this shoe.
Take my word, in the year 2001, retros were not yet dominant. If you were on your retro game at this time, you weren't the leader of the pack, but you were still far ahead of most.
Idk what the basis of this post it, but retros were popular in 2001. I specifically remember in March of 2001, there were lines for the Cool Grey XI, then again in May for the Red XI lows and the Carolina Blue. Then Christmas of that year we got the Black/Red XI. The Blk/Red XI's weren't a problem because there was a ridiculous amount produced. So much so, I remember we got more shipments of those in January 2002. I worked in NTNY at the time and there were so many pairs produced, they sent a sheet around the store asking people what their size was because we all got GUARANTEED pairs for discount. That was the first time I've experienced that and they never did it again. With all that being said, the XVI's kinda got lost in the shuffle around that time. It was sandwiched between the Colombia XI's retro in January, then the Cool Grey XI. I personally regret not copping. I had them stashed away and put them to be sent to the outlet (dumb move by me). At this time, people were still iffy about these newer Jordan models being made compared to the retros. Hell, I had the white/navy AND Blk/Red XVI's stashed away to cop on the sale price and discount, and still I boxed them to be sent to Jersey Gardens. One of my biggest regrets smh.
