JA Apparel Corp., the maker of men’s clothing under the Joseph Abboud brand name, reached an agreement with the NFL to be its official clothier of NFL coaches for the next three years. Under the deal, Abboud will provide tailored clothing, dress shirts and ties and dress sportswear for off-the-field use for 31 of the 32 NFL coaches. The lone holdout was the New England Patriot’s Bill Belichik, known for his hooded sweat-shirts.


In select markets, Abboud will also work with individual coaches to support charities of their choice.


“We at Joseph Abboud are delighted to be extending our partnership with the NFL,” said Marty Staff, the President and Chief Executive Officer of JA Apparel Corp. “We love to see the league’s great coaches wearing our great clothes. We have been dressing athletes and coaches for many years and I think it’s a terrific way to demonstrate the outstanding fit of an American-made Joseph Abboud suit. Few things are more American than NFL football and we are the pre-eminent American menswear designer. It’s a perfect match.”


“Nobody works harder than an NFL coach to ensure his team’s success,” said Dennis Kayser, the NFL’s senior director of on-field operations, uniform development and the Coaches Club, which manages marketing deals for the coaches. “Thanks to Joseph Abboud, our fine coaches will travel in style off the field and continue to represent their organization and the league in a first-class manner.”


Abboud will not be furnishing casual sportswear to the coaches.. The clothing will not be worn on the sidelines on game day.


One NFL coach, Mike Nolan of the San Francisco 49ers, currently wears Joseph Abboud suits on the sidelines during games. Nolan won permission last year to wear the suit to honor his father, Dick Nolan, who wore a suit when he coached the 49ers and New Orleans Saints in the 1960s and 1970s.