Are Sports Illustrated Chiefs Jackets Cool?

[rico]

Dear Chiefsplaneteers,

I need help. When it comes to dressing myself and looking cool in doing so, I struggle. I've been told the last few years that I dress nicely, but this is ONLY because my wife picks out my outfits for me.

Over the years, I've literally had to learn the hard way about apparent fashion "no-no's" by someone pointing out to me how stupid I looked by wearing certain combinations of clothing. In every single one of these instances, I had already worn that clothing combo SEVERAL times and spent the rest of the day thinking about how many people had thought I looked stupid as hell over the years for dressing that way.

Examples:

A.) I had a girlfriend in high school, who prior to leaving my house for the county fair (ugh), she INSISTED that I did not wear Doc Martin boots with shorts and that I changed into either some jeans or put some sandals on.

B.) We had a freaking exchange student from Brazil who had a better sense of our culture's fashion than I do. The first week he lived with us, he said to me, "why do you do this, wearing your socks with sandals? I think this is kind of weird." I was like, "oh, I think that's how we do it in the U.S.A." He was like, "no, it isn't." He was right.

C.) I had another girlfriend in high school who insisted that I did not wear navy blue and black together.

D.) In my first Senior year of college (I had 2 of them), we arrived at this club and one of my best friends was like, "dude I think it's the funniest thing in the world that every time you wear a black dress shirt, you also wear a brown belt and brown loafers with it." I was like, "what's wrong with that?" He was like, "dude, that is a HUGE fashion no-no. Didn't you know that?!?! I never said anything to you because you are always acting like a jackass, so I figured you were doing it to be funny. Omg Swaff, you can be so stupid." And boy did I feel stupid...I had been doing that my entire life.

Obviously, dressing cool does not come naturally to me.

So, I got this thing in the mail from SI. They had an offer that I thought was freaking awesome. A one year subscription to SI and a jacket of a team of your choice for $29. You can check out the offer and the jacket here: http://www.si.com/offer29 I generally just disregard mail like this, but I decided to go through with this one and am pretty pumped about it. I'm real pumped about the jacket, for the only Chiefs jacket I have at the moment is a 1990's Starter jacket that my grandma found at a resale shop and bought for me. I don't mind it, but my wife won't be caught dead with me if I wear it, so I never wear it...I'll probably end up donating it...to the resale shop.

Here is a pic of the jacket:



Is this jacket presentable/cool enough to wear to a game or to wear out in public at the bar while watching the game? I literally don't know, I have no fashion sense and my wife is a Steelers fan, so of course she doesn't think it looks cool. Help a fashionably challenged brotha out. Thanks.

Sincerely,

rico

<3 XOXOXOXOXOXXOXOXO <3

[jspchief]

Any article of clothing that comes free with a magazine subscription is pretty much lame by default.

[rico]

Originally Posted by jspchief

Any article of clothing that comes free with a magazine subscription is pretty much lame by default.

Can it be modified to be unlame? Like, what if I cut the sleeves and wore the hair-extensions/mullet? Rockin' or lame?

[jspchief]

Originally Posted by Bewbies

Go to bonobos.com and buy your clothes there.

**** no

[rico]

Haha, my friend just pointed out this shirt to me. If I; a.) was unmarried and b.) didn't despise strippers, then this one may work:

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by rico

Can it be modified to be unlame? Like, what if I cut the sleeves and wore the hair-extensions/mullet? Rockin' or lame?

Just give it to the 1st homeless person you run into

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by rico

What do I do to overcome the lame?

I'm a bit superstitious with what I wear... as ridiculous as that sounds. At wrestling events I try to wear 1 of 2 shirts. Either a vintage Dick Tracy t-shirt or a plain black t-shirt that reads in white lettering, "Team Grabass." The "Team Grabass" is a shirt that some dudes and I on this wrestling message board created because this guy created an account and was genuinely pissed and gave a lot of us shit for "playing grabass" on a thread that was dedicated to doing so. We ended up clowning on this dude for a year. When I wear both shirts, good things seem to happen... shit, I've only had the "Team Grabass" for a year and a half and my youngest bro has racked up Grade School State, Freestyle and Greco state championships while my 2nd youngest bro has placed 4th at state in folkstyle (standard U.S.A. HS/collegiate style) and 3rd at state in both freestyle/greco (Olympic/International style)...all of these accolades with me in the corner coaching them with that "Team Grabass" shirt.

Anyways, what should I wear on NFL Sundays to not look lame?

You can get away with that jacket in the Arrowhead parking lot and inside the stadium. I wouldn't wear it anywhere else.

I would consider investing in a nice wool peacoat of a neutral color.

[BlackHelicopters]

Consider heavy drinking

[Sassy Squatch]

Good god. Who the **** cares what you look like at a bar. Anyone sober enough to judge how you look is a dumbass for being at the bar and not getting drunk so their opinion shouldn't matter.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that if you really wanted to do it, that entire post could possibly be reconstructed. If you were able to do that and compress all those words into a little bit smaller space I think you would probably get better advice from lots more people. On a personal level, I prefer more abbreviated thoughts and if somebody throws me a wall of words, I just glaze over it, not absorbing a single word. Everybody knows that if it's too long; we don't read.

[jspchief]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that if you really wanted to do it, that entire post could possibly be reconstructed. If you were able to do that and compress all those words into a little bit smaller space I think you would probably get better advice from lots more people. On a personal level, I prefer more abbreviated thoughts and if somebody throws me a wall of words, I just glaze over it, not absorbing a single word. Everybody knows that if it's too long; we don't read.

tl;dr

[rico]

Originally Posted by ptlyon

Just give it to the 1st homeless person you run into

Chiefs fans in my area already have a general reputation for being "white trashy." Haha, no joke. I have been an advocate for trying to "un-white trash" the reputation of our fan base in rural SEI for years. I am afraid that giving this jacket to a homeless dude would be counter-productive.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

You can get away with that jacket in the Arrowhead parking lot and inside the stadium. I wouldn't wear it anywhere else.

I would consider investing in a nice wool peacoat of a neutral color.

I literally had to google, "peacoat," to familiarize myself with what they are. IIIIIIII...dunno, Hamas....those things aren't really my style. Those things cross a line of preppy that I just wouldn't be able to wrap my meat-head around. I had a couple friends in college who wore those... they were Chicaburbians. I had never seen one in person prior to that. I remember thinking to myself, "well, those coats are evidently cool...since Chicaburbians are wearing them, but I just can't imagine being able to pull that off in rural Iowa without being labeled as 'flamingly metro.'"

[Stryker]

Nah, you want one of these if you want to be cool...

[Steron]

Originally Posted by rico

Dear Chiefsplaneteers,

I need help. When it comes to dressing myself and looking cool in doing so, I struggle. I've been told the last few years that I dress nicely, but this is ONLY because my wife picks out my outfits for me.

Over the years, I've literally had to learn the hard way about apparent fashion "no-no's" by someone pointing out to me how stupid I looked by wearing certain combinations of clothing. In every single one of these instances, I had already worn that clothing combo SEVERAL times and spent the rest of the day thinking about how many people had thought I looked stupid as hell over the years for dressing that way.

Examples:

A.) I had a girlfriend in high school, who prior to leaving my house for the county fair (ugh), she INSISTED that I did not wear Doc Martin boots with shorts and that I changed into either some jeans or put some sandals on.

B.) We had a freaking exchange student from Brazil who had a better sense of our culture's fashion than I do. The first week he lived with us, he said to me, "why do you do this, wearing your socks with sandals? I think this is kind of weird." I was like, "oh, I think that's how we do it in the U.S.A." He was like, "no, it isn't." He was right.

C.) I had another girlfriend in high school who insisted that I did not wear navy blue and black together.

D.) In my first Senior year of college (I had 2 of them), we arrived at this club and one of my best friends was like, "dude I think it's the funniest thing in the world that every time you wear a black dress shirt, you also wear a brown belt and brown loafers with it." I was like, "what's wrong with that?" He was like, "dude, that is a HUGE fashion no-no. Didn't you know that?!?! I never said anything to you because you are always acting like a jackass, so I figured you were doing it to be funny. Omg Swaff, you can be so stupid." And boy did I feel stupid...I had been doing that my entire life.

Obviously, dressing cool does not come naturally to me.

So, I got this thing in the mail from SI. They had an offer that I thought was freaking awesome. A one year subscription to SI and a jacket of a team of your choice for $29. You can check out the offer and the jacket here: http://www.si.com/offer29 I generally just disregard mail like this, but I decided to go through with this one and am pretty pumped about it. I'm real pumped about the jacket, for the only Chiefs jacket I have at the moment is a 1990's Starter jacket that my grandma found at a resale shop and bought for me. I don't mind it, but my wife won't be caught dead with me if I wear it, so I never wear it...I'll probably end up donating it...to the resale shop.

Here is a pic of the jacket:



Is this jacket presentable/cool enough to wear to a game or to wear out in public at the bar while watching the game? I literally don't know, I have no fashion sense and my wife is a Steelers fan, so of course she doesn't think it looks cool. Help a fashionably challenged brotha out. Thanks.

Sincerely,

rico

<3 XOXOXOXOXOXXOXOXO <3

And you had to ask?

[rico]

Originally Posted by Superturtle

Good god. Who the **** cares what you look like at a bar. Anyone sober enough to judge how you look is a dumbass for being at the bar and not getting drunk so their opinion shouldn't matter.

So I shouldn't respect the opinions of people who are at bars unless they are drunk.... that is some valuable advice! Thanks, homeslice!!!

Originally Posted by Phobia

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that if you really wanted to do it, that entire post could possibly be reconstructed. If you were able to do that and compress all those words into a little bit smaller space I think you would probably get better advice from lots more people. On a personal level, I prefer more abbreviated thoughts and if somebody throws me a wall of words, I just glaze over it, not absorbing a single word. Everybody knows that if it's too long; we don't read.

Too bad your reading speed is seemingly not comparable to your physical speed! (Jk, jk, jk). For those of you who don't know, Phil is really, really fast. Seriously.

I am incapable of not being long-winded. I've tried...kind of, but have been unsuccessful. You may want to put me on ignore since it apparently annoys you so much, homie...

Wait a second....I think I just figured out the SECRET to saying bannable shit WITHOUT being banned by Phobia. Write long, ramblish posts and he won't even read it!!! (Not that I want to write bannable shit...that was just my attempt at a joke).

[rico]

Originally Posted by Steron

And you had to ask?

Yes, I did.

Originally Posted by Stryker

Nah, you want one of these if you want to be cool...

Nice! (I think).