If the Super Bowl is the largest stage of the NFL, the Super Bowl tunnel Is the biggest catwalk. And on Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Chiefs of Kansas City dressed for it.
A few hours before the teams took the field in the Superdome in New Orleans, photos of the players streamed in their pregame finese. Around 4 p.m. Eastern Time we had already witnessed the Canadian Tuxedo of Saquon Barkley, Jalen Hurt’s very “Joker” Purple Sport Jacket and Travis Kelce’s Ron Burgundy-Ed.
This season-ending outfit palooza-the match before the competition indicates how important the NFL has become a competition of Poeters and Pauwen in the past decade or so. It was not so long since players had one outfit for the most part for the game day: a suit. And often a floddery and sad suit. It was more worn out from obligation than from expression.
Oh, how that has changed in recent years, because football and fashion have changed from strangers to spouses. (After all, this is a sports competition with its own fashion editor.)
Whatever the Tunnel Walk evolution has lit, it is now its own competition. Players are now switching on stylists and cozy and closer to brands, and scrouning the most “you can” ensemble for a certain Sunday together.
If you were to use that players would call things for the Super Bowl – tenish for something sober for the toughest game of the year – you would have lost that prop bet.
This year’s super bowl-walk-up was a Buffet with fur (perhaps this was a nod to Broadway Joe Namath), spangled sleeveless suits and more Louis Vuitton Duffels than the private jet terminal in Nice.
It is clear that there is no question of the focus -seeking appetite that course through the competition.
This is exactly how the NFL is like now. It is a competition of dandies with biceps the size of bread breads. The players in their trix-tinted suits and the sprinkling of cracks walked through the tunnel on Sunday afternoon and this year offered a suitable peak in Pro Football.
Some other memorable looks from Sunday:
