The issue of clothing worn on the sidelines has long been an issue in the NFL as coaches were admonished to not be sloppy. Some dressed in a suit with a hat like Tom Landry and others would wear team logo gear like Bill Parcells. However the worst example of a sideline fashion disaster was that of Joe Willie Namath who famously wore a coat made out of dead puppies. Since the sixties were not as politically correct as the current day, Namath skated unlike the poor deluded Michael Vick. This monumental fashion faux pa is atoned for each year at the Puppy Bowl where the descendants of the canine martyrs who gave their lives so that Joe Willie could look cool are commemorated.
(Reverse the Call on the Field, The Secret History of the NFL, Doris Kearns Goodwin, ESPN Press 2010)
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