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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Yeah, so Gebruder is, you know, for brother. So Gebruder Dassler is the Dassler Brothers shoe company. And people were like, wow, so I don't have to wear my high-heeled leather sport boot any longer on the pitch?

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Yeah, so Gebruder is, you know, for brother. So Gebruder Dassler is the Dassler Brothers shoe company. And people were like, wow, so I don't have to wear my high-heeled leather sport boot any longer on the pitch?

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Yeah, so Gebruder is, you know, for brother. So Gebruder Dassler is the Dassler Brothers shoe company. And people were like, wow, so I don't have to wear my high-heeled leather sport boot any longer on the pitch?

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

So their nicknames, you'll probably hear us refer to them as Adi and Rudy, R-U-D-I. And if you kind of put your head to it, you can see where this is headed.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

So their nicknames, you'll probably hear us refer to them as Adi and Rudy, R-U-D-I. And if you kind of put your head to it, you can see where this is headed.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

So their nicknames, you'll probably hear us refer to them as Adi and Rudy, R-U-D-I. And if you kind of put your head to it, you can see where this is headed.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

So the laundry business wasn't going well. So like you said, little Adi started making these shoes and things started going great. And it turns out they made a pretty good team at first because they complimented one another in what they were good at. So Adi was creative and he was the brains and Rudy was a little more extroverted and he was a really good salesperson.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

So the laundry business wasn't going well. So like you said, little Adi started making these shoes and things started going great. And it turns out they made a pretty good team at first because they complimented one another in what they were good at. So Adi was creative and he was the brains and Rudy was a little more extroverted and he was a really good salesperson.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

So the laundry business wasn't going well. So like you said, little Adi started making these shoes and things started going great. And it turns out they made a pretty good team at first because they complimented one another in what they were good at. So Adi was creative and he was the brains and Rudy was a little more extroverted and he was a really good salesperson.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Yeah.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Yeah.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Yeah.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

And as a German sprinter.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

And as a German sprinter.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

And as a German sprinter.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

So that should say it all. It does. So he was wearing these track spikes, and this helped him. This got him a little bit of notoriety. But it was really in 1936 in Berlin at that very, very famous Olympic Games where a young athlete named Jesse Owens โ€“ dominated and literally tore up the track wearing those Gebruda Dassler track spikes with Hitler in the stands.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

So that should say it all. It does. So he was wearing these track spikes, and this helped him. This got him a little bit of notoriety. But it was really in 1936 in Berlin at that very, very famous Olympic Games where a young athlete named Jesse Owens โ€“ dominated and literally tore up the track wearing those Gebruda Dassler track spikes with Hitler in the stands.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

So that should say it all. It does. So he was wearing these track spikes, and this helped him. This got him a little bit of notoriety. But it was really in 1936 in Berlin at that very, very famous Olympic Games where a young athlete named Jesse Owens โ€“ dominated and literally tore up the track wearing those Gebruda Dassler track spikes with Hitler in the stands.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

And people are like, those shoes are amazing. And Jesse Owens was like, it's kind of me. But yeah, sure. The shoes are great. But I'm also a vastly superior athlete to the rest of these chumps out here.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

And people are like, those shoes are amazing. And Jesse Owens was like, it's kind of me. But yeah, sure. The shoes are great. But I'm also a vastly superior athlete to the rest of these chumps out here.