{"id":868,"date":"2007-04-21T08:55:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T12:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/04\/21\/nfl-cannot-have-it-both-ways\/"},"modified":"2007-04-21T08:55:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T12:55:57","slug":"nfl-cannot-have-it-both-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/04\/21\/nfl-cannot-have-it-both-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL cannot have it both ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL is just plain wrong on its decision not to allow San Francisco 49ers\u2019 coach Mike Nolan to walk the sidelines in a suit.  Instead the NFL wants its coaches to wear Reebok brand crap.  Why?  The Reebok contract = big $money$.  The NFL plans to be generous enough to once again allow Nolan to wear a suit two games during the 2007 season, but not for the entire season.  Nolan said<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf the league wants to promote class and display proper standards, as it does and as it should, then it seems to me letting your coaches dress like this only enhances your image.\u201d [Sporting News Apr. 9 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it is great that the league and the players association are trying to improve the NFL\u2019s image (before it gets out of control) with a player conduct policy, but the NFL should ask a simple question.  Would it rather have Nolan in a suit or would it rather promote players like <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=2832015\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=2832015', 'Jones and Henry');\" target=\"new\">Jones and Henry<\/a>?  The NFL cannot have it both ways.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL is just plain wrong on its decision not to allow San Francisco 49ers\u2019 coach Mike Nolan to walk the sidelines in a suit. Instead the NFL wants its coaches to wear Reebok brand crap. Why? The Reebok contract = big $money$. The NFL plans to be generous enough to once again allow Nolan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/04\/21\/nfl-cannot-have-it-both-ways\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFL cannot have it both ways<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}