No Prefontaine, no Nike. Now that is some legacy.

It blows my mind people still don’t know that without pre there would be no nike. He’s one of the greatest and most influential American runners ever

The scene of Pre's death from Shoe Dog had me on tears. I was on my way to my first half marathon listening on audiobook. RIP Pre.

Eluid Kipchuge deserves a statue as well by promoting Nike!!

Hey great video! Just letting you know there is also a Michael Johnson Statue at Nike World Headquarters. -Portland native

Wow, never heard of this guy before. What an incredible story he has. Love the way you presented it, really enjoyed watching it!

Thanks for the story, I've heard of Steve Prefontaine before but i now know a lot more about him thanks to you 👍🏃

He was always humble too.

Enjoyed that Sam....Steve is a legend

I ran for a good Illinois high school team in the early 70s. He was my hero.

My idol as a teenager….

Jared Leto embodied him when playing the character.

Great video!

uhhhh Michael johnson has a statue in Nike headquarters

I still have a Pre pint glass from the Pad. Old Paddock. Still drinks really good

Good Video - It's arguable that Pre (or at least his memory) achieved a great deal more by the fact of his dying than he would ever have achieved had he lived... In death he has become an uncontroversial totemic symbol. His memory, and potential have been partially deified, and probably exaggerated for effect, by Phil Knight, Bill Bowerman & Nike; and as such he has become symbolic to the the whole of US & World Athletics (Track & Field). Which for a sport which has badly needed such icons, is fair enough. Many US track and field athletes who are still alive, from Carl Lewis down, haven't been all that inspirational nor totemic, or at least have proved not to be. If Pre had lived he probably wouldn't have fulfilled anything like as much as it is said he would have, he'd have been embroiled in all the politics at Nike and would at best, have been just be another reasonably successful ex track and field athlete/apparel man /commentator. There's no way he would have beaten Lassi Viren in Montreal, so maybe a US Brendan Foster? (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Foster )

Great video man, new subscriber here, really enjoyed the editing and punctuality.. u deserve a lot more subscribers for sure :)

"Pre's People" New documentary on Prefontaine shows Pre's greatness before Nike, before UofO, before Olympics...his hometown of Coos Bay, OR is where it all started. Over 50 interviews, new photos, films and stories of Pre in his younger years!

Marshfield High School, Coos Bay Oregon. (I'm from Coquille) Everyone down there is aware of him and his legacy. When I was a kid in the early to mid-'70s, in the Coos Bay McDonald's there was a painting of Pre depicting him and lead at the Olypics.

Wow, great video mate. Truly well done and I watch and critique a lot of youtube videos

This was a really interesting story, and you've got a great structure to your videos! Keep it up :)

There's a great movie on Steve from the 90s.

Kipchoge now has a statue made by Nike :)

Interesting story. Thanks!

The sad part is people still shout at runners while they pass by lol.

I grew up across the street from his childhood home in Coos Bay

To be a pedantic, the Greek goddess of victory is actually pronounced "Nee-kay". But in terms of the shoe it's mostly rhymed with Mike in England. 'Ny-key' is seen as American. There's a way to make myself popular!

Is that a Milwaukee Bucks T-shirt your wearing!! Go Bucks! Go Pre! And thanks for the great video

I watched his biopic and got the understanding of being a true champion

Mohammad Ali of Running 😄 That was great

Billy crudup was great as pre. Donald Sutherland played a great bowerman as well

Nike got it right

I had the biggest crush on him. I would have anyone that had anything in papers or mags to send them to me. back then the girls all had donnie osmond on their walls and I had pre and him Morrison. I was glued to the Olympics. the hostages, then their deaths. all the time just wanting to see pre. He is a great role model for anyone in love with running or winning in life.

Read his story written by Tom Jordan on line. You will love it. I recommend it.

This is when Bill Bowerman shoes with a waffle iron and Phil Knight made shoes, in his Mother's Laundry Room!!! My 1st pair of leather Nike shoes cost me, and I had to save up from picking beans, Strawberries and my 4-H Rabbit sales, for $13 Dollars!!! I wished I would have kept them!!!

Michael Johnson too.

Very interesting story - thank you for sharing. I didnt know who he was before this video.

Why am I crying man ???

Pre!!

for their 3rd effigy, Nike should commission a statue of 5'2" Joan Benoit Samuelson, such a tiny lady who posseses the biggest heart

Nobody. NOBODY DID WHAT PRE DID IN THE 1972 OLYMPICS 5000M FINAL..UP TO THAT POINT..OK LASSE VIREN WON BUT PRE FORCED THEM TO RUN THE LAST MILE IN UNDER 4 MINUTES !!!!!!!! AND HE BLEW UP FINISHING 4TH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A FEW DAYS LATER...TRAGEDY @

One best runner s ever ...

When I hear the stories of legends like these who passed too quickly it saddens me, but then I remember that they will all come back in the ressurection. God is not wasteful but we must pay the penalty of our iniquities.

Bill Bowerman used the waffle iron to develop the waffle sole, not Phil Knight.

Have you ever read the book born to run by Christopher mcdougall?

Pre was a big influence but lets be real. Nike wasn't a hit until Jordan. Now they rule the world.

amazing story but the idea that he's the only athlete Nike ever built a statue for is plain wrong. If you go to Nike's campus, there's a statue of Ronaldo (brazilian), basketball player Cynthia Cooper and another track and field athlete Michael Johnson

oh.

I dunno man.. they should look at terry fox.. theres other atheletes just as inspiring as Prefontaine..

Muhammed Ali was if not the greatest the second greatest boxer of all time , Steve Prefontaine would not make the top 100 list of the best ever runners

I love the content, so I subscribed! Hope to be YT buds

"HAS' Ever built. Not, "have."

Too bad they (Nike people) did not learn anything from Pre's life, especially the Sports Marketing group.....

bowerman

That’s a lie I’ve seen a statue of Brazilian Ronaldo (R9) at Nike HQ

This hasn’t been true for years. There are several statues of other athletes!

grammar - only...NIKE HAS (not have)

Yeah, let's build a statute of an alcoholic who drunk and drove and died because of his own poor choices. Very cool! Very inspiring! NOT!

The questionable fall occasionally matter because beard surgically bat through a warlike security. little, bitter rule

And pretty soon they shall build a statue of the freak show Dylan Mulvaney. Drop dead Nike.

And pretty soon they shall build a statue of the freak show Dylan Mulvaney. Drop dead Nike.