I for the life of me cannot think of any other NFL coaches, baseball managers or hockey coaches with beards. Ironically Fisher and Cowher are matching wits on the football field as I write this.
I know there’s been a few in the NBA like Phil Jackson or that dude Latrell Sprewell strangled.
Can anyone think of any? Is it because you are trusting someone to run a $500,000,000 investment the reason most coaches dont have fuzz faces? That “corporate” image?
In general, most of the four big pro sports don’t like coaches with beards. I think it is an image thing.
Football and baseball owners are, for the most part, a conservative bunch. Fisher and Cowher can grow beards because they have a lot of job security and are quite successful.
None of the pictures of Dungy or Edwards that I saw online show them with beards.
Basketball owners are a bit more liberal in their facial hair attitudes. With Phil Jackson’s record of success, he could dye his hair purple and probably not get any grief for it.