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Air Jordan 11 “Bred”
“Bred” is a common, shortened way to describe the black/red color schemes of the Air Jordan 11 and Air Jordan 4. The term has even seeped into the description of other sneakers. Most people do not realize that the nickname did not originate as a description of either of the models its most often used for. “Bred” started to spread within Nike Talk, a popular sneaker forum, in 2003, when an early colorway description for the Air Jordan 12 Retro marked the colorway as “b.red”, instead of “Black/Red” as normally used. From there, the “Bred” nickname took on a life of its own, and is now used to describe two of the most popular sneakers in history, but ironically, is not used when referring to the Air Jordan 12 the nickname originally derived from.
