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I wasn't aware of this, but a couple of coaches got approval to wear a suit. BB is as old school as they come. Will he stick with the hoody or will he go for a suit. Here's what BB had to say in his press conference. I for one would love to see BB wear a suit and develop a trademark style much like Landry had the hat or Lombardi had the trench coat. What do you guys think?
Q: A couple of coaches got approval to wear suits on the sidelines. Any chance you'll be trading in the gray sweatshirt for a coat and tie this week?
BB: I didn't even know that was an option. The first I heard about it was like five minutes ago. Somebody mentioned it, but I think that's great. Really, I do. When you think back to the Paul Browns and the Vince Lombardis and Tom Landry and guys like that, their bust in the Hall of Fame, George Halas, the hat, you can practically see them. I think it was really a signature for some of those coaches. In all my years as a head coach, I've never one time in a league meeting or through the league or anything else ever been consulted, asked or even had a conversation about sideline apparel other than, 'This is what you have to do.' That's been the extent of the conversation. I'm not saying those conversations don't exist, but I've never been a part of one. I'm sure that the marketing and the apparel people or whoever, I'm sure that they have spent plenty of time on it. That's not anything that I've ever been, in any way, a part of, so I really don't know what the story is on that. But, I don't see anything wrong with it at all. I think it's good. The way it is now in the league now, everybody is wearing the team shirts or whatever. It seems like teams change their logo every two years anyhow. One year it's striped shirts. The next it's checkered shirts. The next year it's whatever. Or jackets. That stuff changes every year or two with a lot of teams anyway. I think there's something to be said if you think about traditional NFL, if that's something that you're interested or the league is interested in, but I think there's something to be said for it. If they're not, then there isn't anything to be said for it and that's the way it's been for, I'd say, I don't know, when the sideline rule came into effect. '93, '94, I don't know. I can still see Ray Handley in Monday Night game with the Giants wearing that...so whatever.