If Boston proved it could work, New York proved how big it could get.
The place was packed. The line ran around the block for four or five days in the cold and the rain, and at one point they moved everyone into the atrium of Niketown just to get people out of the weather. What they were waiting for was the Cowboy Dunk Low, still the most polarizing shoe the community ever made, every panel a different color and a different material, snakeskin and reptile and ostrich and a gum sole picked because it refused to match anything else. Alongside it ran a cleaner Yankees Dunk in navy and white patent for the people who wanted the safe one.
The blogs covered it. The energy was electric. People still argue about whether the Cowboy was too much or an instant classic, and that argument is exactly why the night stuck.
Were you in that line in the New York cold, and did you walk out with the Cowboy, the Yankees, or just the story?
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