Pony

They wore it for two years.

This one's made by Pony, who everyone loves from the 90s.

Famous 90s brand.

Sponsored by Dimplex, which is, of course, a cream that removes dimples, it says here in my notes.

That's kind of an interesting, fun fact about this one.

So this one kind of, Southampton, another team that like, kind of a boring kid history, not as terrible as some of the other teams that wear this kind of color scheme.

They've had a few interesting ones, including this, which has kind of that big checkmark from the Pony logo, which kind of requires the Pony logo to be placed a little low on the shirt, in my opinion.

And it also still has kind of like half stripes and then red sleeves.

When I was younger, I was, uh...

My father worked for, uh, sporting stuff, so he worked for, uh, Pony at the time.

Remember Pony?

No.

Remember Pony, the sports, uh, athletic wear?

No.

Yes, you do.

All the athletes wore it.

And then there was also looking at sneakers.

I think one interesting thing with buying sneakers here in the US, they did have a pride of buying domestic sneakers, buying either Pony, which was a product of New York, buying Converse, buying Nike, and, um, those things were important.

I think as I went on, a lot of things pointed out, like, say, Lotto sneakers were known as a really a top quality professional tennis sneaker.

And a lot of people, they would buy any brand, any country, but I, I think years later, just by chance, I was talking to Boris Becker, and he was saying, um, he suggested that I should just wear Nikes.

I think that is because, uh, his view coming from Europe is very clear that if you're wearing Nike, you're the US player.

They don't have to research Pony, Pony's a product of New York or anything like that.

And, uh, he was so adamant about that, that he's going to cover me on buying all Adidas sneakers, clothes.

That was really one interesting, one conviction about him, that, uh, he was really into this.

Yeah, I did.

I worked for Pony, and I worked for Adidas.

Nice.

And I worked for me.