Comments on: Didn’t Know That

By: Idaho Joe

Idaho Joe — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:15:55 +0000

I run in Brooks myself, but I’ve been telling my kids for years that Adidas was named for two brothers, whose nicknames were “Adi” and “Das.” Guess I didn’t have it quite right.

I’ll have to ask our German kids if they know this story. Our first exchange student, from 6 years ago, is coming back to visit us in November.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:37:36 +0000

Peter Gunn/

UR a racket-baller, eh? Where’d you play? I played at LSU and my father was a Head Coach at a small compass school in the Mid-west. (He once uttered one of the worst puns EVER MADE by any coach in history one day to his squad back in the late 40s-early 50s. He held ye old “racquet” up, pointed to it’s face and said: “Men, it takes GUTS to play this game!” (Groan….you’ve got to go some to top that!) In my day it was nothing but Chuck Taylor Hi-tops for BB and low-cuts for tennis. (Had the blue-slotted soles) I later transitioned to Tretorns when I went to the UK in 70s in the USAF (had tiny circular pattern soles and 1st shoe w, removable liners, IIRC) Later started wearing/testing out a variety of shoes when I came back to the US in mid-70s as that’s when the veritable explosion in shoe design/manufactures began. I’ve probably worn ‘em all (or at least half) at one time or another in the years since–including Adidas.

By: HomefrontSix

HomefrontSix — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:10:54 +0000

Adidas are the only ones that fit my small, but wide, foot properly. My piggies don’t like to be cramped. Interesting story.

By: PeterGunn

PeterGunn — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:51:08 +0000

The one thing that I learned about Adidas in college was what it stood for:
All Day I Dream About Sex!

They made might fine tennis shoes and other garb that our team adopted as their official uniforms.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:24:48 +0000

Well, then you could clearly be identified as a non-native.

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:00:04 +0000

I heard the story when I lived in Germany ’66-’69, but forgot all about it. Haven’t heard it since, until I saw it today.