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Belichick’s Hot Jacket Lives!!!

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The biggest surprise of Super Bowl 51 was not that the Patriots came back from 25 points down to win, but that Bill Belichick decided, for some unknown reason that will befuddle me for all eternity, to remove the Flying Elvis from his beloved Hot Jacket for the game. There had been much speculation as to what Belichick would wear in the big game. Heck, it even got me on national TV as everyone speculated if he’d wear a hoodie and which one it might be.

Instead, Belichick wore his Hot Jacket, which has been his favorite coaching attire since 2013 with that one small modification. Since the Hot Jacket is no longer being made, I wondered if this meant the end of it. Or would Belichick really continue wearing an Elvis-less jacket while coaching the team?

Yes, these are the things that keep me up late at night. Well today, we got an answer.

As you can see it looks like Belichick was sitting on a new Hot Jacket, because there it is back in its fully Elvis’d glory. We might never know why Belichick decided to cut off the logo for the Super Bowl, but it’s a good bet that this new version will carry him into future seasons and continue to build upon a post-Hoodie legacy.

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  1. The NFL logo is missing too on the SB version, as compared to the recent pic.

    Here’s my hypothesis. Remember the preseason incident with Brady’s thumb? Cut himself with a scissors. Then it came out that he’d been removing the NFL logo from his helmet — apparently in protest of his impending (unjust) punishment.

    Now in the last game of the year when the NLF took away his GOAT quarterback for 1/4 of the season out of spite, Belichick shows up in SB wearing “legal” NFL gear but stripped of the branding that makes the NFL mandate its own gear?

    I think it was a subtle uniform protest and tribute to TB12’s own silent statement from preseason. I’m going with that until somebody has a better explanation.

    • All things considered it’s hard to come up with a more reasonable feature. Although I think the NFL logo has been gone for some time from the hot jacket, I think he trimmed up the sleeves a bit at some point.