Honor thy father
This has nothing to do with Charleston South Carolina real estate but more important matters like NFL Football and fathers. Dick Nolan, former NFL player and coach passed away and his son, Mike Nolan is the coach of his former team, the San Francisco 49'ers. Mike will be on the sidelines tonight for their game against the Seattle Seahawks and I hope the NFL will let him wear a suit in honor of his father, a dapper dresser who played with and coached under another legendary coach and gentleman, Tom Landry of the Dallas Cowboys.
From ESPN.com, "Dick Nolan played nine NFL seasons before becoming a coach, assisting Hall of Famer Tom Landry in Dallas and going 71-85-3 in nearly 11 seasons with San Francisco and New Orleans. He led the perennially downtrodden 49ers to 56 wins, three division titles and two conference championship games in eight years with the club.
Dick and Mike Nolan were just the fifth father and son to become NFL head coaches, and the first to coach the same team since Bum and Wade Phillips both coached the Saints.
Mike Nolan convinced the NFL to allow him to wear dress suits on the 49ers' sideline last season partly in tribute to his father, who always dressed smartly.
'My father always projected an image of authority, and I wanted to honor him -- the way he lived his life and his whole career as a coach,' Mike Nolan said."
From the San Francisco Chronicle: "It was on those Giants teams of the '50s that Nolan and Landry, a defensive back, became good friends - Nolan once said he thought of Landry as an older brother - and their friendship helped launch Nolan's coaching career.
Landry had become the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in 1960, and he hired Nolan as a defensive assistant when Nolan retired as a player in 1962. Nolan stayed on Landry's staff until the 49ers lured him away to take over as their head coach.
Nolan wore a suit and tie on the sideline as head coach, as Landry did. A generation later, Mike Nolan occasionally has donned similar attire to honor his father."
I rarely wear a suit and tie and personally enjoy dressing business casual and I don't really want to get all the New England Patriots fans upset with me so that they wouldn't want to use me to help them buy a home in the Charleston area but I think it is ridiculous that their coach, Bill Bellichek, can wear a sloppy hoodie with cut off sleeves and be in compliance with NFL dress codes yet a coach wanting to wear a suit and tie has to get special permission (Jack Del Rio of Jacksonville had to get special permission as well from the NFL to wear a suit made especially for him by Reebok to comply with NFL dress codes).
Dad, I love you and I miss you.