Nike Air Command Force “White/Black/Neon”
The Nike Air Command Force is a legend for a number of reasons. The shoe was worn and promoted by a young David Robinson, was the choice shoe of Billy Hoyle in White Men Can’t Jump, and the Hot Lime color is as timeless as it is on the Air Tech Challenges. The Air Command Force was an expensive sneaker, even in today’s numbers. With a retail price of $175, the shoe was priced far out of the budgets of many and adjusted to inflation would be the equivalent of $275 today.
Despite a pretty big campaign on TV and in magazines promoting the shoe, the price was just too much to bear. The Air Command Force has since arisen from the bottoms of closets demanding pretty high dollars on eBay as it has become a highly saught after vintage shoe. The fragile nature of a 17 year old midsole makes finding a pair in perfect shape next to impossible.
This was also Nike’s second high top shoe to feature the Air Pump technology and was the first to have its own pump built in to the shoe. Still there has not been any talks of these or any of the other David Robinson high top pumps coming back. If you would like to see the Nike Air Command Force, let your voice be heard by leaving a comment. Nice Kicks has MANY readers from Beaverton, OR and I am sure those aren’t just kids looking to waste time while in the computer lab…
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October 5th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
PLEASE!!!! bring them back i think there the best shoes ever made and would definitely by 10 pair
February 26th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I bought these when I was 13-years-old in late December of 1990 at Nordstrom, a department store in the Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus, New Jersey. No other shoe store seemed to stock these, but I got lucky - very lucky. Unfortunately, these monstrously large and cumbersome shoes just didn’t look right on a barely 5-foot scawny kid. Hey, I was only in 8th-grade and hadn’t yet hit my growth spurt. I remember they began at size 8, and I was so desperately nuts over this shoe, I bought them even though I was barely a size 7. Though with the inflatable air bladders above, below, and behind the foot, anchoring ones ankle down like no other shoe. I mean this shoe truly was the definition of ‘air’, as this was the only Nike Air (and until I was 16 or 17, I only wore Nike Air, and must have had 10 different styles) that made you feel like you were in fact walking on air. It was extraordinarily comfortable.
The price I paid was $130. I don’t know where the $175 price comes from, but I paid $130. I do know I was the only kid in my grade, and only one of two kids in my whole K-12 school that ever owned this shoe. From what I knew at the time, this often referred to as, ‘moon boots’ were not very well received by the public, for 1. the obvious price reason, making the demand thus price retailers charged drop, and 2. the style was a tad ‘out there’, even for the end of the 80s, a time when nothing seemed to be too gawdy.
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:59 am
You guys have to bring this sneakers back they mad dope
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:58 am
these are the sickest shoes ever made. Nike has to bring these back!