T master Posted Saturday at 03:38 PM Posted Saturday at 03:38 PM On 1/3/2025 at 6:46 AM, Chaos said: Back when leading by example meant something both in appearance and actions ... 2
f0neguy Posted Saturday at 05:29 PM Posted Saturday at 05:29 PM I’m thinking that the league mandates what approved clothing the coaches have to wear. Why don’t they have a line of clothes that’s more “business” like? Give coaches an option.. 1
Irv Posted Saturday at 06:56 PM Posted Saturday at 06:56 PM McDaniel has a hot date digging clams after the loss. 2
reddogblitz Posted Saturday at 07:57 PM Posted Saturday at 07:57 PM 2 hours ago, f0neguy said: I’m thinking that the league mandates what approved clothing the coaches have to wear. Why don’t they have a line of clothes that’s more “business” like? Give coaches an option.. They do. Quote When Mike Nolan, head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, takes the field Monday in the season opener against the Arizona Cardinals on "Monday Night Football," he will have already won an important victory - the right to wear a suit on the sidelines. While most men look for excuses to dress casually, Nolan has fought long and hard for the right to dress up, sparking a controversy that has made him a coach who stands for old-school values, a symbol of a new direction for a struggling team and a suited hero among football fans and fashionistas. Nolan came in at No. 11 on Esquire's Best Dressed list for 2007. The sartorial struggle began in 2005, when Nolan was hired as the head coach of the ailing 49ers and said he would like to wear a coat and tie on the sidelines as a tribute to his father, Dick Nolan, another suited hero, who was head coach of the 49ers from 1968 to 1975, and had just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. After 18 years as an assistant coach for other NFL teams, Mike Nolan not only relished the opportunity to lead the 49ers in the top coaching spot but also wanted do it with style. Retro style, to be exact. Nolan said the suit would be a tribute not only to his father but also to all the other great coaches of his father's era who had worn suits, such as Vince Lombardi, Tom Landry and Weeb Eubank. That's when he ran into a corporate wall - or, rather, two corporate walls: the NFL and Reebok. The NFL has a reported $250 million licensing agreement until 2012 mandating that coaches as well as players wear Reebok sportswear exclusively during games. Still, Nolan persisted with his petition to dress for success. After many league committee meetings and corporate negotiations with Reebok, a compromise was reached last year when Nolan was allowed to wear a suit, but only for two home games. There was another stipulation. Reebok would make the suit. Reebok is in the sportswear business, so it was no surprise that its first foray into formal menswear was somewhat comical. The black suit it cobbled together did not exactly have Giorgio Armani worried - nor even the menswear designers at Sears or J.C. Penney. Football fans might not be the most fashion-forward people in town, but even they realized that the suit was more befitting a toll-booth operator than a man of Nolan's stature and dignity. And it angered them. https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/Mike-Nolan-scores-one-for-the-suit-2522877.php No Fun League or at least No Tribute to Your Father League.
US Egg Posted Saturday at 11:06 PM Posted Saturday at 11:06 PM Equating football as societal barometer stands on its own.
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