Cleated sports shoe innovation starts with soccer shoes and trickles down to football. Nike and adidas have been trading blows for the last few years on who can push it further. I'd give adidas the edge in that department. Both make great cleats although I and teammates of mine have had issues in the past with Nike cleats tearing completely off of the bottom of a shoe. Happened to me with 5 different pairs. Adidas makes the lightest football shoe FWIW. Seems like most of the pros wear Nikes. With basketball adidas is finally coming out of a slump of not making cool new shoes. Nike has been eating their lunch since maybe the TMac 1 or 2s.