YOLO BOLO

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http://boltbeat.com/2014/01/06/legend-philip-rivers-bolo-tie-growing/

The legend of the bolo tie is building. Philip Rivers has been rocking the bolo tie on the road this season because of the new dress code that was implemented by head coach Mike McCoy on the road. The team was able to wear a t-shirt with the old regime, but now McCoy requires a coat and tie.

Philip Rivers worked around the rule by rocking the bolo tie. Everyone was introduced to the bolo tie after the Chargers beat the Denver Broncos on Thursday Night Football and Philip joined the NFL Network crew to talk about the win. He was sporting the bolo tie and some rattlesnake boots and the crew asked him about it.

On the road, Philip Rivers has found a way to win in some tough stadiums. They have beaten the Chiefs in Kansas City, the Broncos in Denver and the Bengals in Cincinnati. I would assume that he was wearing a bolo tie during all of these games.

According to Adam Schefter, the Chargers are undefeated when Philip Rivers is wearing a bolo.

Adam Schefter:
Watch out, Cincy: Chargers QB Philip Rivers is wearing his Bolo tie. When Rivers wears the Bolo tie on the road, Chargers are undefeated.

Christopher Hansen:
I have a bolo tie. I had no idea what it was until Rivers wore one earlier this season.

NFL Network:
We want more bolo! RT @chargers: Philip Rivers wearing the Hoosier Gym long-sleeve in his day-after conference.

Brady Phelps:
San Diego, I found the bolo tie mecca. #BoloKnows #Chargers

Here is a Broncos reporter trying to counter the bolo:

Vic Lombardi:
It's game week. #YOLO #BOLO

ProFootballTalk:
That bolo tie Philip Rivers was wearing yesterday could also help pinpoint the location of the Lost Ark.

Adam Schein:
Will I remind the guys I picked the Chargers!?!? Will I wear a bolo tie? Well, yes.

Is it the bolo? DUH. Get your bolo tie now! I am about to make my own bolo tie with a Chargers logo on it. It is about to go down!

The bolo has worked and he has to rock it again on Sunday in Denver.

The bolo has been good. I do have another question about Philip Rivers though from Sunday. What was that Drew Brees mark on his face? Why did he have the eye black off to the side like he was Brees? Was that ever explained? He might want to put that Brees mark on this weekend also.

Check out the Brees mark:

[oneinchpunch]

Bolo Knows

[ArtistFormerlyKnownAsBKR]

Made a pride bet with my Bronco-fan buddy tonight. If we win, he has to wear a bolo tie to work on Monday (he's the president of a bank in Denver). If they win, I have to wear an ascot to work. What he doesn't know is that I wear an ascot every day. So it ain't heavy, bro.

[Boltjolt]

Need to make a Bolo with my Avatar logo

[homeless simpson]

[Panama]

Made a pride bet with my Bronco-fan buddy tonight. If we win, he has to wear a bolo tie to work on Monday (he's the president of a bank in Denver). If they win, I have to wear an ascot to work. What he doesn't know is that I wear an ascot every day. So it ain't heavy, bro.

Which kind of ascot, headwear or neckwear?

[MakoShark]

Made a pride bet with my Bronco-fan buddy tonight. If we win, he has to wear a bolo tie to work on Monday (he's the president of a bank in Denver). If they win, I have to wear an ascot to work. What he doesn't know is that I wear an ascot every day. So it ain't heavy, bro.

Madonna don't like men in ascots. :couch:

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chargers.com

Philip Rivers wore a special bolo tie made by a fan following the Wild Card win over Cincinnati.


Philip Rivers’ play on the field has made waves all season long, but so has his fashion sense off of it.

With the team implementing a coat and tie policy for road games under Head Coach Mike McCoy, Rivers took on a unique twist of the dress code, at least for those who live to the west of the Mississippi. The first time he adorned his bolo tie, Chargers fans all across San Diego loved it, and now, football fans all over the country have caught bolo tie fever.

One such fan who took notice was 76-year old Ted Williams, who stopped by Chargers Park to drop off a bolo tie he made for Rivers. He left it at the front desk and thought there was only a fraction of a chance the star quarterback would ever receive it. Fast forward a week later, Williams finished watching the Chargers’ playoff victory over Cincinnati thinking it was the best Sunday he could have asked for until he witnessed what happened shortly thereafter. Rivers took the podium as he normally does following a game. But this time he adorned the very bolo tie Williams dropped off for him earlier that week.

“I made it myself about 10 or 15 years ago,” said Williams. “I saw that he had bolo ties on when they beat the Chiefs and beat the Broncos, so I figured he liked them. I thought he might like that one. It was always too big for me but he is a bigger guy so I thought it might fit him!”

So what was his reaction when he saw Rivers wearing it?

“I thought it was great!” said Williams. “The guy that went down there with me is an ex-cop from LA, and he called me up when I was doing yard work and said it was on TV. I asked ‘What’s on TV?’ and he said ‘Your bolo tie!’ So I went running in and rewound it because it was halftime of the 49ers game, so I saw it and it tickled the heck out of me. I liked it a lot.”

When Williams dropped off the gift with Chargers receptionist, Georgette Rogers, he wasn’t sure if it would ever make its way to Rivers, but there he was in Cincinnati on national television wearing the handmade bolo tie.

“I didn’t know if he would actually get it,” he explained. “It’s kind of like if you never throw a pass you don’t have a chance to get it across the goal line. You’ve got to take your chances. The guy is out there with 11 guys trying to kill him, and here he is entertaining us. I thought shoot, I’d be glad to give him one of my bolo ties.”

When asked about it on Monday, Rivers explained how he wore it to honor the fan who made it for him.

“The one yesterday was actually one that somebody sent me here locally from El Cajon,” he explained. “So I thought I’d wear it for him.”

The fact that Rivers felt compelled to honor a fan in this manner speaks to the unique bond between the community, the fans and the San Diego Chargers. Moments after Rivers spoke about wearing it, Eric Weddleexpanded on the special connection between the team and its supporters.

"It's us. It's the community,” said Eric Weddle. “The fans that were in Cincinnati, it was amazing. The fourth quarter, seeing all the Bengal fans walking out and our fans slowly coming up to the edge of the rows, it was definitely a site to see. We do it for us, the city, this organization and the people that support us. We can't do it alone. We have said all along that the fans and the people who support us mean the world to us as players. The people that stick by us through the tough times, the three-year hiatus, those people who stuck with us, hopefully we are rewarding them right now."

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http://www.denverpost.com/hochman/ci_24863879/philip-rivers-bolo-ties-catch-eye-broncos-fans

For the Broncos, it's all about the Super Bowl; for the Chargers, it's all about the super bolo.

San Diego quarterback Philip Rivers, this country-and-western cognoscente, wears bolo ties in postgame press conferences, begrudgingly seen by locals after Rivers won in Denver in December. And last Sunday, when the Chargers snatched a playoff win, to thus return to Denver this Sunday, Rivers sported this grandiose bolo made of elk antler, with a shiny stone in the center.

"If we win on Sunday, it's because Philip Rivers (ticked) us off by wearing what's ours," said Steve Weil, unleashing a grand guffaw. "He's riled us up. This is our deal, not theirs!"

Weil's grandfather, the late Denver legend Jack A. Weil, made the bolo the bolo. In the 1940s, "Papa Jack" became the first person to commercially sell bolo ties, which are a type of necktie with a thin cord or braided leather, clasped together with a decorative piece. Since then, his company Rockmount Ranch Wear has sold millions internationally. On Tuesday, I went to "The House That Bolos Built," the Rockmount store on Wazee, where I met Rockmount president Steve Weil, who admitted, "Philip Rivers wears it naturally. Some people can pull it off, and he does.

"Bolos are under the radar to a large extent. They've been in fashion for 60 years or more, but it's always been a niche. It's an interesting statement because it's a rejection of conventional fashion, and that's a good thing. Western, the whole Western lifestyle, is a rejection of conventional life."

Rivers' bolos have become easy targets on social media. On Twitter, young people sometimes use the obnoxious hashtag for "You Only Live Once" (#YOLO), so sports fans have been sarcastically using the hashtag #BOLO. Local TV broadcaster Vic Lombardi, he of CBS 4, promises to wear a bolo for a week if the Chargers win the Super Bowl.

At Rockmount, there is a bevy of bolos, even one with Betty Boop. There are bolo ties featuring Native American chiefs, cowboy boots, even the Mona Lisa. Many are in the $15-30 dollar range, but Steve Weil also had some handmade Navajo ones, exquisitely turquoise, which flirt with $200. I carefully put one on, and for a moment, I might as well have been wearing a Raiders jersey on top of a Josh McDaniels hoodie.

Rockmount famously makes a variety of Western gear, and its shirts have shown up in movies (from a Clark Gable flick to "Brokeback Mountain") and upon celebrities. Paul McCartney wore one on "Saturday Night Live." Todd Helton was seen with one during a goodbye press conference. And one time Eric Clapton requested shirts for a Cream reunion, but Steve Weil didn't have enough time to risk shipping overseas. So Steve himself flew to London and hand-delivered the Rockmounts to the rock legend.

Steve Weil said that even Peyton Manning himself has been spotted in Rockmount shirts. So I asked Steve Weil: If you could pick out a bolo for Denver's quarterback, which one would it be?

"Oh, that's a tough one," he said. "Dressing other people is fraught with risk, because we like to have our own identity in the way we dress. However, in the interest of good sartorial advice, I would say Peyton could wear any classic bolo design, such as a Western motif — with a bronco."

[floydefisher]

Win one for the bolo!

[ArtistFormerlyKnownAsBKR]

Which kind of ascot, headwear or neckwear?

Neckwear only, sir.