Reebok might not have designed the highest-quality suit in the world for 49ers coach Mike Nolan to wear on the sideline last season — nor the most comfortable, based on his constant fidgeting — but Nolan's gesture of honoring past coaches like his father, former 49ers coach Dick Nolan, did not go unnoticed in the national media.
It apparently didn't go unnoticed in the world of pop culture, either. Esquire Magazine ranks Nolan at No. 11 in it's annual best-dressed list. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady earned the top spot on the list.
Nolan will again be "allowed" to wear the suit this season, and this time Reebok was generous enough to allow it for all eight home games. It previously wasn't allowed at all because the NFL has a contract with Reebok that forces coaches to wear their garb. Perhaps all this free publicity will persuade Reebok to give the OK for coaches to wear suits whenever they want. Maybe they should make it mandatory.
IF YOU HAVEN'T been following the ongoing saga of the 49ers' "Inside Training Camp" special that was to air on NFL Network, consider yourself fortunate.
The show was set to be filmed last Monday, the day Bill Walsh died, and air the following day. But with wall-to-wall Walsh coverage on Monday, the Cowboys' show got bumped to Tuesday, and the 49ers have been in limbo ever since.
Initially it was believed that the show would be pushed back one day, to Wednesday. Then it was supposed to air on Saturday. Then it was supposed to air this Monday. Meanwhile, someone called the NFL Network and was told it had never been filmed at all (which is strange, because Steve Mariucci and Joe Starkey were interviewed live at the practice facility, with practice going on behind them, about Bill Walsh on NFL Total Access).
Now even the 49ers are at a loss for when this will air, and one reader on Matt Maiocco's blog said he called the NFL Network and was told it would air Thursday at "10:00 EST." Which means the guy who said they told him it was never shot either lied or was lied to, or this second guy is lying or was lied to.
I'd say check the guide on your TV, but those have been wrong several times, too. But it's probably worth giving it a look at 7 p.m. PST (or 7 a.m., who knows?). Just don't be surprised if you end up watching the Green Bay Packers' intrasquad scrimmage for the 15th time this week.
NOT MUCH NEW in the newspapers this morning that we didn't know already (such is the power of the Internet). The topics of the day, as discussed here yesterday, are Aubrayo Franklin's knee injury and Vernon "I'm not T.O" Davis.
IN A CLASSY — if not entirely unexpected — move, the 49ers will wear their throwback uniforms in honor of Bill Walsh for their Monday Night Football opener against the Cardinals on Sept. 10. The team was initially scheduled to wear the uniforms, which they should switch back to full-time, twice this season. Not sure if the NFL will allow them a third, or if this will simply be one of the two they were getting anyway.
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