It's been really hot the last two weeks-- mid- to high nineties and humid. Mike Tomlin's the only guy in Latrobe wearing black clothing. Last year his predecessor spent the dog days of training camp wearing a straw Bermuda hat and white or khaki clothes. At various times in the past few years home teams in hot climates (notably the Jacksonville Jaguars) have worn white jerseys when the Steelers came to town in hopes of making them uncomfortably hot. So why the hot clothes, coach?
Tomlin has worn black every day of training camp, but for the past two days he's at least in shorts and not the long pants he wore last week. He's still wearing long-sleeved black shirts, though, as temperatures hover around the 90s at Saint Vincent.
Finally, yesterday, he let on why.
"It's part of the mental warfare. I don't want guys coming up to me and talking about how hot it is because they know I don't care. And that's part of it. I hope it gets hotter."
Picture and text courtesy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
I've yet to read anything about Tomlin that didn't make me like him more. I'd like to see him carry the color scheme over to the regular season sideline and make it into a sort of identity, like a Jerry Glanville who can actually coach.
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