A Review and Comparison of The Air Jordan 12 Playoff (OG vs 2022) 

Hey everyone! I missed the Jumpman eyelets. The retro is plastic and the OG is metal. Thanks for watching and for subscribing!

97 too young to work, parents won’t buy them = ❌ 2004 broke high school kid = ❌ 2012 newly married with young children, different priorities = ❌ 2022 doubled up shawty = ✅✅

The shape of the OG is simply beautiful

Great video and comparison, as usual. I also got my pair for $200 at Shoe Palace. I had the taxi in 97 and am very pleased with this release. My first 12 in 25 years. thanks for sharing.

The shape of the mudguard on modern 12s just sticks out to me every time I look at them. Not nearly the same height, and the curve near the toe box isn't the same.

I thought they did a reasonable job on these. I doubled up. One thing I noticed is that the tumbled leather seems to vary from pair to pair. One of my pairs is heavily tumbled like yours, the other one much less so. Thankfully both shoes in each pair match.

100% agree on being disappointed with the lack of quality on the carbon fiber shank plate. Very small thing but the “brush strokes” cf is drastically different than your OG pair and what I remember from the 2004 retros. Overall, very satisfied with the shoe and double-up on these.

I hit on two raffles and didn't need snkrs this time and I'm keeping both as these are my favorite 12's. My pairs both have soft leather 💪🏾

I always look forward to your comparison videos

When I bought the og 97 playoffs I ditched my final exam junior year to get them at 9am when they released

Best content. Exactly what I was waiting on

Just received my pair today I was so disappointed with the quality of the mudguard on these it felt like fake leather and like you said the print is just faded off I really thought Nike sold me a fake pair till I seen this lol thank you 💯

I can’t believe that it’s really been 8 to 9 years since I been subscribed to this channel. I remember it like it was yesterday, me sitting in my 7th grade Teen Leadership class and I randomly came across this channel and I subscribed and fell in love with your content at 13 years old. Here I am now just a week away from my college graduation and through all these years you have never disappointed us fans with the content. Although I wish I could’ve grabbed your personal brand tshirts you made back in 2018 but I was battling cancer so unfortunately I had to miss out, with all that being said THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THAT YOU DO MARVIN. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Great video pretty close they did a good job on this year's release,💯💥

Love what Jordan Brand is doing with all the Retros lately. Just not a fan of the Puffy Skate board style Ankle Collars; They did the same thing on the 2018 or 2019 Black Cement 3’s. Other than that Retros are starting to get as good or better than the OGs (as they should). Great video; thanks for the Content!

This video was an asmr experience for me.... relaxing 😌

Great video, and great comparison as always Marvin thank you!

saw inflation from 1997 to now 140 back then was equivalent to 245 now so maybe its not as bad as we think

Those ogs cannot be touched that leather is amazing!!

Love the comparison, brother... another excellent video!!

Yessssir.. im just glad these videos are back to cleanse the palette of noise and nonsense.

Can't wait till you open a museum with all this info love your videos man

Love these and bring good memories too

Larger portion of that white toe overlap on the retro & tongue.

They Good With 2022 Pair & All No Shade To That Retro But 97' Pair Still A Winner Nice Pick Up Marv

Great video! Thanks for the awesome content!

The materials on the og’s were always better and the first retros weren’t too bad! But the newer retros r getting cheaper every release

Welcome back!

I really like the SHOES, THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

thank you for this video

Great video bro 👍🏽

The appreciation is just awesome! Thank-you. Thoughts on the AJ36, Infrareds? Mine are still in the box. Very impressed. Can't stop rocking my Psychic Energy. In hand, they're superb and this after I was kinda meh on the silhouette when they first came out.

How did you store those original playoff 12’s to be that old and I’m that amazing of condition!!!! Unreal

Excelent video hermano 👌 ! New suscriber!

Same thing happened to me today to in Sacramento at Arden mall . Champs charged me 210$ plus tax and Shoe Palace charged me 200$ plus tax .

The OG shap of the 12's was much better back then to me the retro to me looks flat to me

Looking back, quality control was bad on these.

Honestly, the lizard mudguard on the 2022 is so soft and I disliked it. I felt like one single bump on it would tear it lol I’m just waiting for the taxis to re-release.

Nothing compares to the og at all an I grew up when these shoes came out glad they retro but nothing can be the og

Knowing what i know now i would save my mikes and no go so hard in them 😂😂

Surprised u didn't touch on the toe box shape, the difference in eyelet placement (closer to the toes on OGs) and the padding in the "ribs" on the side being thicker on the OGs. Also the original wrap inside the box of '97s is black plastic. I own two pairs, one DS never been laced and the other worn and both are plastic wrapped, not tissue paper. As per usual, the retro doesn't come close as JB refuses to remaster the J12.

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U kno…when the retro 11 ie came out a few months back they were 190$ on sneakers, but I ended up getting mine at the outlet for 175$ and that was the retail on the box compared to footlocker and the sneakers app Smfh!

They done switched it up. Retailers gon charge whatever with the MRSP gone.

I like the grandma analogy mom just can’t get it right lmao I think she tries harder than Nike tho

I just got mine from SNKRS and no MSRP tag

You can't compare box sizes. I worked at a sporting goods store in the early 00s and same shoe would come in wildly different size boxes I remember this distinctly because it sucked stocking nikes back then because size 9 would have a bigger box than the 12s or visa versa. Such a pain.

We don't care!!! Resellers made it hard to get the shoe for retail 🎯

Damn, these joints was $210 on SNKRS. I could only get a pair for my son, they came almost 3 weeks after release date, and they are not all that for that amount of money. Still kinda of mad I didn’t get a pair but the xiii’s hitting soon

Yea I heard about that $200 retail thing like wtf I got robbed by snkrs app then

So do you always have letchon paksiw after new year? :) great review

On they went down on the price I'm surprised they didn't do the whole $220

Top 10 shoe ever made

I wanted to get these, and thought they came out on Saturday. Guess I'm not much of a sneakerhead after all!

Awesome video. How were able to keep the OG pair from the soles turning yellow? Thank you in advance!

All my pairs have great lizard embossing

Same thing with shiekh, they charged me only 200

Why is the jumpman on the retro like a stick figure??

The fatter panels on the upper has a higher cut on the retros and in my opinion it does throw off the asthetic of 12's. The white leather panels just make the shoe a little off. Kinda like the concord 11's from 2012 where the patent leather panel is too low. But instead the white leather upper panel has a higher cut. It just doesn't look right. I'm cool with JB making slight changes with colors to differentiate from prior releases but not the size of the cuts of materials whether it's leather, patent leather, etc.. Shape of the shoe is extremely important too. When JB messes with these things it's a serious bummer. I'm still gonna cop but it's always a bummer knowing these subtle differences lol

Beautiful shoe, already regret selling mine..

$140 210 can kick rocks

You can see the shape difference just from birdseye view. Newer ones still a bit wider around the ankle and toe is still that awful banana shaped. If they just fixed the toe, just fix the damn toe Nike. Jeez. And stop with the plastic cheap shit. Same issue i have with the 5 tongues. I wish they use the old 3m material than the plastic feeling we get now. People love that overly tumbled basketball look whereas i prefer when the leather looks more smooth and raw.

Waiting for mine to be delivered..Seems like it's been a month🤣

FIRE FIRE FIRE 🔥

They always make the retros shorter

What about the size of the zoom and comfort when u wear them though? Or u just never wear these?

i watch all your videos you have multiple pairs of OG jordans all DS, do you ever wear any of them.

Your original isn’t laced to the top like the retro. Laces probably pretty close in length. Great review overall.

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Damn the 1997 ogs deadstock? Have you ever tried them on, just curious if the air unit has popped...im sure it has i would think. Let me know if you know thanks

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How did your OGs not yellow? 🤣

Just FYI they are no longer putting prices on any of the boxes anymore whatsoever

What material is that on the back midsole?

Is the metal eyelets the same or is the need one plastic?

I got 4 pairs two mens two gs

big difference. og look exactly like the ones mj played in and not anything like 2022. however still good enough.

hahaha love the grandma recipe analogy was spot on. this shoe was the second jordan i ver bought as a 19 year old back in 1997 and stiII have them but they are no where close to how good you kept them. i like the new retro, i mean they got it much closer to the original then that 2012 release. the jumpman has gone from butcrack to no butcrack and has gone back and forth a few times. original 11s had a butcrack from what i remember. consider yourself Iucky not owning the other retros. they weren't that great, weII the 2004 was nice though. they got the Iizard print ok, better then the 2012 though. i love how they went to silver on the jumpman tab unlike the 2004 and 2012 retros. that varsity red on the OGs remind me of how the black and red 16s OG had a brighter red compared to the CDP 2008 pair. one thing about the outsole that i only saw in the playoff 12s is the sloppy painting around the black traction area, from 1997 to these 2022 they seem to do that. i think coIIectors like yourself are way more on point then brand jordan is with their own shoes. these sat for 2 days at arden maII and this must have been the easiest shoe to get in a while for myself. thank you for this detailed review.

OG were heavier and bulkier, weren't friendly to play basketball unless you were like LeBron. New retro have cut down cost on materials coincidentally made the shoes more light weight which good for hooping.

Them not the og 1997 Jordan 12s they don't even look old they supposed to look old if the shoe came out in 1997 those probably replicas and you just saying that the shoes are from 1997 lol 😂

The 2022 are better and not because it’s newer just a better looking shoes. Plus SNKRS owe me $10 smh