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What's up with two different color shoes?

I'm guessing part of it is due to the fact that kickers wear a particular kind of shoe on their kicking foot, and then on their plant foot they wear various different shoes depending on what gives the best traction on that particular type of playing surface/field conditions.

But is there any other reason why they're usually different color?

JayJ79 wrote:What's up with two different color shoes?

I'm guessing part of it is due to the fact that kickers wear a particular kind of shoe on their kicking foot, and then on their plant foot they wear various different shoes depending on what gives the best traction on that particular type of playing surface/field conditions.

But is there any other reason why they're usually different color?

Quick answer:

One foot is a soccer cleat
One foot is a football cleat




Dramatic Kicker Answer:


For me, I used two soccer cleats my entire career. I just liked the feel better.

For some the team issued cleat come in a soft ground (metal tipped), grass (regular stud), firm/field turf (little plastic nubbins), or astro turf (little rubber balls to completely flat).


The idea that the plant foot needs a special type of cleat depending on the field is usually what does it, so they are all football cleats. The right is a soccer cleat, and are either going to be generic black (while the football is colored for the team), or going to be some absurd color (i had chrome one year).


We kickers were spoiled at Nova. I had my everyday kicking cleats, for field turf/firm grass as thats what we usually played on. Then I had a soft ground cleat (like mentioned above), only i used to get the exact same cleats in a different bottom so I didn't have to do the ole two color business.


Really it is for preference. Usually the kicking cleat is a full size to size and half smaller than your regular cleat (i wear a 13 football cleat and an 11.5 kicking cleat). The idea being you want as little foot as possible to hit the ground (so smaller feet for kickers is ideal). You will notice you don't generally see this on just punters, they usually use whatever. I was also "blessed" with a much smaller left foot than right so I could easilly use the 11.5 on both feet.



sorry to be long winded. Just isn't as simple as the short answer in reality.

I just thought it was their fashion sense.







I still think that btw.

JayJ79 wrote:What's up with two different color shoes?

I'm guessing part of it is due to the fact that kickers wear a particular kind of shoe on their kicking foot, and then on their plant foot they wear various different shoes depending on what gives the best traction on that particular type of playing surface/field conditions.

But is there any other reason why they're usually different color?

Because they're kickers — on any IQ chain they're one rung above cheerleaders and majorettes but directly below parade horses. They use the different colors as an additional aid to help tell their left shoe from their right, and then they call the trainer over to put them on and lace them up

When I kicked, I just wore two soccer cleats...
My IQ is pretty high BTW bench...

How quickly can kickers put their legs behind their heads?

slycat wrote:How quickly can kickers put their legs behind their heads?

The image doesn't show but I'll guess quicker than Appa in a leatherboy bar.

slycat wrote:How quickly can kickers put their legs behind their heads?

That's pretty disgusting Sly. It also must represent that Kickers have nothing to "show" for their efforts

guinzone wrote:When I kicked, I just wore two soccer cleats...
My IQ is pretty high BTW bench...

Holy shit, we got another CS kicker? What are we up to now, something like ten board members who were former kickers? Christ, we're literally up to here in fucking kickers. Oh, how I long for a CS poster who was a nice long-snapper or something

Generally for punting I use a pair of soccer cleats. ADIDAS Copa Mundial's to be exact. But sometimes, we play on really shitty natural grass fields and I switch my plant foot to a longer soccer cleat, but keep the Copa on my right. Just comfortable with that set up. Never have liked Nike cleats, always go with ADIDAS. My backup shoes are Nike's though.

bench wrote:

JayJ79 wrote:What's up with two different color shoes?

I'm guessing part of it is due to the fact that kickers wear a particular kind of shoe on their kicking foot, and then on their plant foot they wear various different shoes depending on what gives the best traction on that particular type of playing surface/field conditions.

But is there any other reason why they're usually different color?

Because they're kickers — on any IQ chain they're one rung above cheerleaders and majorettes but directly below parade horses. They use the different colors as an additional aid to help tell their left shoe from their right, and then they call the trainer over to put them on and lace them up

that's pretty damn accurate

bench wrote:

guinzone wrote:When I kicked, I just wore two soccer cleats...
My IQ is pretty high BTW bench...

Holy shit, we got another CS kicker? What are we up to now, something like ten board members who were former kickers? Christ, we're literally up to here in fucking kickers. Oh, how I long for a CS poster who was a nice long-snapper or something

I warned all you assholes we'd soon be taking over

wideright82 wrote:
I warned all you assholes we'd soon be taking over

You're Jewish too??? Mazel tov!

Oh...and all of you can

JMU DJ wrote:

wideright82 wrote:
I warned all you assholes we'd soon be taking over

You're Jewish too??? Mazel tov!

My friends called me jewish in college, does that count?




now that my dago hook is gone though I don't know how jewish I look.

wideright82 wrote:
My friends called me jewish in college, does that count?

Works for me, I'm only in it for the jokes... and the blood thing.... but more for the jokes.

bench wrote:

guinzone wrote:When I kicked, I just wore two soccer cleats...
My IQ is pretty high BTW bench...

Holy shit, we got another CS kicker? What are we up to now, something like ten board members who were former kickers? Christ, we're literally up to here in fucking kickers. Oh, how I long for a CS poster who was a nice long-snapper or something

I'd go for that

Don't knock kickers. They're not all dumb. Bengals' punter Pat McInally graduated from Harvard and got the only certified perfect score on the Wonderlich.

SuperHornet wrote:Don't knock kickers. They're not all dumb. Bengals' punter Pat McInally graduated from Harvard and got the only certified perfect score on the Wonderlich.

Not all dumb? What's dumb about making millions of dollars a year for NOT getting hit? If you ask me the other positions are the dumb ones.

wideright82 wrote:

SuperHornet wrote:Don't knock kickers. They're not all dumb. Bengals' punter Pat McInally graduated from Harvard and got the only certified perfect score on the Wonderlich.

Not all dumb? What's dumb about making millions of dollars a year for NOT getting hit? If you ask me the other positions are the dumb ones.

Except for game day when my blood is up, Mrs. Native and I were relieved when our young high school linebacker/fullback/noseguard with three previous concussions was picked up as a DI kicker.

...alas, however, kicker or no, he will not be acing the Wonderlich... but he still likes to knock heads and make tackles!

I was a long snapper in High School (the one year I played). Does that count?

bobbythekidd wrote:I was a long snapper in High School (the one year I played). Does that count?

Partial qualifier — CatMom made it pretty obvious she wanted to verify the length of said snapper first

wideright82 wrote:

SuperHornet wrote:Don't knock kickers. They're not all dumb. Bengals' punter Pat McInally graduated from Harvard and got the only certified perfect score on the Wonderlich.

Not all dumb? What's dumb about making millions of dollars a year for NOT getting hit? If you ask me the other positions are the dumb ones.

While the kicker might be smart enough to stand by himself on the far side of the practice field while everyone else is on the other end getting their shit knocked around, you just know he's over there blowing spit bubbles and using a football for a hackeysack whilst considering the mysteries of the universe and other important things, like growing a totally sweet beard and what color he's going to dye his hair next.

Fact: kickers are flakes and superstitious headcases. It's science, dude. SCIENCE! But you know we love you and Willie anyway

bench wrote:

wideright82 wrote:

Not all dumb? What's dumb about making millions of dollars a year for NOT getting hit? If you ask me the other positions are the dumb ones.

While the kicker might be smart enough to stand by himself on the far side of the practice field while everyone else is on the other end getting their shit knocked around, you just know he's over there blowing spit bubbles and using a football for a hackeysack whilst considering the mysteries of the universe and other important things, like growing a totally sweet beard and what color he's going to dye his hair next.

Fact: kickers are flakes and superstitious headcases. It's science, dude. SCIENCE! But you know we love you and Willie anyway

can't argue with science.... that's for sure




we also played a lot of punt golf with the equipment manager

wideright82 wrote:

bench wrote:
While the kicker might be smart enough to stand by himself on the far side of the practice field while everyone else is on the other end getting their shit knocked around, you just know he's over there blowing spit bubbles and using a football for a hackeysack whilst considering the mysteries of the universe and other important things, like growing a totally sweet beard and what color he's going to dye his hair next.

Fact: kickers are flakes and superstitious headcases. It's science, dude. SCIENCE! But you know we love you and Willie anyway

can't argue with science.... that's for sure



we also played a lot of punt golf with the equipment manager