Football isn't a fashion show.

Rhizo - I just said the same thing. I said back in the day, coaches wore suits and ties. AND the games were all outdoors. Maybe not a beauty queen, but a sloppy sweatshirt?? Really? Unless it's a superstitious thing....???

Thems fightin’ words! Haha.

On the same note, though, Justin Timberlake is making some fashion statement I guess. I’m just not sure what that statement is, however. What the heck is up with that outfit.

ETA: Was Timberlake lip syncing? Looked like it a few times.

Suits and ties on coaches? You must not have attended or watched any football games in the last 40+ years. Maybe 50+.

Outdoors? In the middle of winter?

The Superbowl was played EXCLUSIVELY in warmer winter areas until the first domed stadiums were built in the north. More southerly locations still predominate. They don't want the weather to be an issue for the playing of the game or the comfort of the fans.

JT just put on his suit and tie. It's all better now.

That little boy in the audience was freaking out! JT was doing selfies with him. Very cute. I was not sure about his choice of wardrobe. The color looked like he had been wading in flood waters lol. Class act JT. He still has some moves.

Elmer, check your facts, The Astrodome was the first indoor stadium. Not exactly in a Northern atmosphere.

I read an article about how the Super Bowl shows are staged.....fascinating! For the past many years, all of the major vocals are live with very few exceptions. I thought that JT's mic was having problems tonight, though. Maybe all of the sound was a bit off. Everything is recorded in the event of an emergency, however.

I don't expect to see football coaches in suits and ties, anymore. But a sloppy, cut-off sweatshirt? It took some planning to look that bad. Not that it matters, but it just seems disrespectful somehow. I'll bet that he has a closet full of nice sweaters and shirts with the team colors and logo. Oh well.

I'm out of the loop. Is it Superbowl Sunday?

Edited to add: nevermind, I have answered my own question. Now I know why so much whooping and hollering started out in the street around daybreak this morning. The sports bars here are showing the game. Apparently it's a live broadcast which explains why it started so early. I'm surprised at the number of people who were willing to get up so early in order to watch.

I understand what you’re saying, Rhizo. Bill being Bill.

Elmer, I was talking Lombardi in the Ice Bowl. It was -13 without the wind chill. I lived there. And yes, he wore a suit and tie. Maybe that is why the trophy is named after him. Class

"Comfort of the fans"?? I guess times have changed, cause it isn't about the "comfort of the fans" at a Packer Game. You come prepared. Tailgate outside, even in frigid weather.

And there was Tom Landry on the Cowboys sideline in his very dignified suit and hat. That was a while ago.

Jim Tressel always wore a vest and tie while coaching the Buckeyes. That didn't change his unethical behavior which caused him to resign in 2011.

Michigan fans don't hold back.

Terilyn said "Elmer, check your facts, The Astrodome was the first indoor stadium. Not exactly in a Northern atmosphere."

She apparently misread what I said, which was "The Superbowl was played EXCLUSIVELY in warmer winter areas until the first domed stadiums were built in the north."

The first Super Bowl game was in 1967, in Los Angeles. The first time it was played OTHER than in California and the Deep South (only Florida, New Orleans, Houston to that point) was in 1982, when it was played in the Silverdome near Detroit, MI. The first time out of warm weather, in the North, in a dome. The next time it was played other than in California and the Deep South was 10 years later, 1992, at the Metrodome in Minneapolis. By 2005, Super Bowl 39, it had been played somewhere other than California and the Deep South only these two times. What I said was correct.

The Ice Bowl wasn't the Super Bowl, it was a playoff game. The Super Bowl for that season was played two weeks later, in Miami.

Playoff games are always played at the stadium of one of the two contending teams. The Super Bowl is intended to be played in a neutral location, which is why they've picked almost exclusively warm weather cities.

Yes, comfort of the fans. This year was SB #51. How many of those have been played in Green Bay? Exactly none, and it's because of the weather. Times haven't changed at all.

Basketball coaches often wear suits and ties.

He always dresses like that. He does seem worse than most of the coaches.

I have little interest in sports, but have noticed how coaches in various sports dress very differently. Basketball: coat and tie, football: usually a logo sweatshirt or golf shirt, and baseball: the team uniform. I believe I have asked my DH about the variations, but he had no answer.

Elmer - I guess I wasn't thinking exclusively Super Bowl Games. Just football in general, but thanks for the "facts".

Elmer, there will never be a super bowl in Green Bay, and it's only partly because of the weather. The city of Green Bay is very small and it doesn't have the infrastructure to support an extra one million people. That's how many they were touting were going to show up to Minneapolis for 52. Lambeau Field is a gorgeous stadium, but unfortunately not domed. I have been to only 1 game there, and luckily we had box seats because it poured that day, and was cold. I think they should have built a dome when they renovated it, but that's just me because I hate being cold. The Packer fans take pride in enduring the elements, but if you're paying $10,000 for a superbowl ticket, fans will demand comfort. I don't blame them.

There is a reason that Coach B wears what he wears...

The following from a site called SuperBowlNation:

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"The colors don’t always remain the same, and the sleeves may not always be attached, but you can be certain on every New England game day, the coach will be taking the field with it on.

And the reason behind it all is peak-Belichick.

According to Yahoo! Sports columnist Dan Wetzel, the tradition started back in 2003, when the NFL entered into an apparel deal with Reebok. That agreement stated that the league’s coaches would be required to wear the company’s gear. Belichick scoffed at the idea that coaches should be models on the sideline and decided to wear the most simple option: a grey hoodie.

In true Belichick fashion, the coach wouldn’t simply acknowledge Wetzel’s discovery, instead dancing around the explanation without giving a true answer.

Belichick wouldn't confirm the genesis of the story when I asked him about it in 2012. He didn't deny it either or stop the line of questioning or explain much of anything though.

He just, as is his way, changed the subject, claiming he liked the hooded sweatshirt for practical purposes.

"It's comfortable," he said. "I carry stuff in my pouch."

What about chopping off the sleeves?

"I have short arms," he noted.

That single act of (alleged) modest rebellion birthed the most famous look in the NFL. "

I've watched very few football games; they always seem to take forever even though "play" only lasts 60 minutes. Last night dear husband remarked that the teams no longer huddle between plays in order to keep the momentum going, or to wear out the other side, or whatever (?). Maybe that's why I've almost enjoyed these past two superbowls -- more action, less waiting.

What a fun thread. I spent Sunday listening to my daughter's comments about Coach B's outfit. "Look at those sleeves. Whats up with that?"

"Didn't Mrs. B tell him "you're not leaving the house like that"? I said "maybe she did". Ha!

"Elmer, there will never be a super bowl in Green Bay"

Of course there won't. I think it's solely a weather issue but we can disagree.

There were no games north of, let's say, the Mason-Dixon line until SB 48 in 2014. At the Meadowlands, adjacent to the usually relatively mild winter (compared to the Midwest) of New York City. Why has there never been a Super Bowl in NFL's historic Chicago, much less Green Bay? I'd say weather.

For whatever reason, Green Bay fans think there's something very with it about their tradition of enduring ridiculously cold conditions at their games. I think most people think they're nuts, they're neither envied or admired for it. If that experience were so fantastic, other cold winter places (like Minneapolis and Detroit) wouldn't have built domed stadiums.

I understand the ownership and locale of the club are unique, money to do anything more with the field is unlikely to be possible.

Fond memories of Coach Bear Bryant looking like a country gent. In the sidelines.

Ive read about players who wear same unwashed gear as a superstition. Why can’t coaches be superstitious or eccentric? (As long as he doesn’t stand near me, ha)

I thought this was about an attitude makeover. What he wears? Meh. Who cares.

We New Englanders think that Belichick's attitude is just fine, thank you, and he's good natured about us poking fun at him for his "same expression for everything" face.