I'm sure that would be the headline in the New York Post, in big bold letters:
SINGLETARY GOES NUTS, DROPS TROU
He did just that, dropped his trousers at halftime last Sunday to show his players they were getting their butts kicked. He did this in all earnestness. He was a grown man with his pants down around his ankles and he honestly expected his team to take him seriously.
The 49ers admit this happened but assure us Singletary did not show his bare butt. That's supposed to reassure us, to let us know Singletary has a shred of sanity. In his first-ever game as head coach, a position he's craved for years, Mike Singletary dropped his pants and showed all the players his boxer shorts as a kind of visual aid. That sure made them play better.
So, I ask you, did Bill Walsh ever pull down his pants during a halftime rant? It's true he once pretended to be a bellhop but he most definitely did not drop his bellhop trousers. I was there and would have noticed the Walsh underpants. Hey, I'll go all the way. I'll say Walsh could have dropped his trou -- I don't think he did -- but he might have done it before a game for comedic value and to lighten things up. He would not have been serious like Singletary.
Or what about George Seifert -- was he a pants-down kind of guy? Not even Mike Nolan took his pants off, as far as I know.
Good grief, this is San Francisco not -- I know this is ticklish -- Chicago. This is a town known for subtlety and decorum. This is the 49ers not da Bears, not a slobbering Mike Ditka team. For all we know, Ditka routinely instructed his players by dropping his pants and that's how Singletary learned this as a motivational technique. For all we know Ditka routinely showed his bare tush.
Which brings us back to Singletary and Vernon Davis. Singletary went crazy because Davis committed a stupid penalty and cost the team 15 yards. Singletary went off on Davis and banished him to the showeres. Fair enough. Players need to learn Lesson One -- control your emotions.
Except Davis had seen Singletary drop trou a few minutes before he committed the foul, had seen Singletary incapable of controlling his own emotions. Maybe Davis felt confused about how to act. After the game, Singletary blew into the press room like a cyclone, screaming and apologizing and almost starting to cry.
Looked at in the context of the dropped-trou incident, you want to tell Singletary: control your emotions, man. You're the head coach and head coaches don't act that way. Be a model for your players.
Hey, I'm just thankful he didn't drop trou to the media. But it's still early in his tenure. That may come in a week or two.
Mike Nolan never dropped his trousers and look at what it got him. You are always quick to ridicule and then you have to apologize later. Wait and see if he gets results before you decide to destroy him in your column. Shock journalism is like shock humor. It gets real old after a while.
I find it hard to understand how you can defend a grown man who pulls down his pants in front of other grown men. I am not destroying Singletary. I like him and am pulling for him to succeed. I just think there are other ways to motivate a team besides pulling down your pants. It seems juvenile
Lowell- you're questioning Mike Singletary's sanity, and you refer to San Francisco as a town "known for subtlety and decorum?" Have you ever been to the Castro? Any of the street fairs? Tenderloin? Golden Gate Park? Exotic Erotic Halloween ball?
Even a guy Singletary's size with his pants down doesn't even rate a second glance in SF. You've been in Santa Rosa too long!
Whew!! I'm on your side Lowell. First week on the job, and you resort to "dropping your pants" for shock value? Get Real......
Ok so this is what it has come down to huh? I really had a good laugh reading the blog today! Control your emotions indeed! I was never a big fan of screamers. I like stoic guys that set the example. Walsh was like that, but hey I even respected Tom Landry for his sideline manner. I still like our new head coach. At least he cares!
If I was a player in that locker room, I could never ever take Singletary seriously ever again. The image of his pants to his ankles kills me.
What was he trying to accomplish by "mooning" his players?
It's a complete lack of judgement and its unprofessional.
What's worse is he's probably the "butt" of all jokes in the locker room now. (say loosing the locker room). Is this his way of "cracking" into the business?
come on!!
It just never stops ....Yorks, please clean house and I mean the entire staff, from Paraag to McClueless, to the entire coaching staff.
Lowell,
In your years of sports writing, have you ever come across something so bizarre?
Was incident suppose to inspire?
How are players suppose to be inspired by the sight of the crack of their coaches ass?
I am totally missing it here, help me out!
Lowell,
In your years of sports writing, have you ever come across something so bizarre?
Was incident suppose to inspire?
How are players suppose to be inspired by the sight of the crack of their coaches ass?
I am totally missing it here, help me out!
lowells memory only works and yearns for a certain type of SF, one which he and bill went to dinner and he thought he was valued by bill, lowell forgets that carmen and eddy attended a "classy" 49er party where a jack daniels bottle was ahem put up a rectum, oh how subtle and sophisticated the 49ers and their executives behaved?
Comical how the brain functions for lowell and his mystical days with the great 49ers.
Spit it out lowell, they were so classy!
Seems like when I was young enough to play sports in high school there were plenty of naked butts in locker rooms. I seem to remember crude jokes as being called "locker room humor". Maybe it's all different now, except for the staph infections.
I don't think it's a big deal. If the Niners win in Arizona coaches around the league will be stripping and pole-dancing if it inspires their teams to play better. If it doesn't work, then Singletary will be equal to the last couple of Niner coaches--another loser in a string of losers.