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Week 2 in the books! Starting to get a sniff of what this season is going to be like. How can you not love it?!
What a wild Sunday. The Chiefs lose. The Cowboys and Giants slug it out in overtime. The Colts are somehow 2-0. The Bengals are also 2-0, but Joe Burrow has to get toe surgery, which is a total buzzkill. Baker Mayfield hit Rachaad White for a Tampa Bay walk-off touchdown drive on Monday Night Football. The Chargers are… good, I think? I think? We’ll see! What a week.
I don’t know how I squeaked by with a win in my fantasy football league, but it feels like a minor miracle. I’m going to thank Jake Elliot, looking flawless, and Jameson Williams, having himself a day, while I was stuffing smoked wings in my face. That said, I have some tweaking to do, and I sure would love to see Mike Evans light up and spark a little more confidence. But this column is for talking fits and football, and Week 2 did not disappoint.
This is extremely apropos to my interests, as a Deadhead that went to Dead 60 in Golden Gate Park back in August (…and, as a football fan). Every week, there’s one Nike kicks fit that caught my eye. For Week 2, that honor goes to Cincinnati Bengals tackle Orlando Brown Jr.
Turns out, Brown’s taste in legendary kicks is matched by his legendary backstory. The dude is a 6-foot-8, 345-pound monster taking after his late father, the equally legendary Orlando “Zeus” Brown Sr., who tragically passed away from diabetic ketoacidosis when Brown Jr. was just a teenager. If you want to understand the ‘why’ behind the player, this deep dive at the Go Long Substack is an absolute must-read.
Brown strolled into the stadium wearing one of the most iconic and sought-after sneakers of the last decade: the Nike SB Dunk Low “Grateful Dead Bears” in the green colorway.
Mike Gesicki, Orlando Brown, Noah Fant e Demetrus Knight chegando no Paycor Stadium para o jogo de hoje! pic.twitter.com/HGpk2RzWfm
— Bengals Brasil (@CincyBengalsBR) September 14, 2025
This is a very rad piece of cultural history. Released in the summer of 2020, this collaboration between Nike skateboarding and the legendary rock band Grateful Dead was an instant phenomenon. Like… the hardest of hard to get. Instantly scooped up by resellers and the always-fit-conscious in the Dead scene. I tried to buy them, got shut out, and am still pretty salty about it, even though they’ve gone down in price on the resale market. You can score a pair for like $800 now, though you have to be careful about fakes.
The design is a direct homage to the “Dancing Bears,” a series of stylized bears drawn by Bob Thomas for the back cover of the 1973 album History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice).
The shoe...
