The Cultural Politics Beneath NFL Tunnel Outfits

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Getty Images/ESSENCE By Julian Randall ·Updated February 9, 2025

Sports and fashion happen in groups. By its very nature, a league comprises several teams within a given sport, and clothes become fashionable when multiple people adopt a >tunnel fit for basketball players showing more of themselves to the world; and arrival fits for NFL athletes. But this hasn’t always been the case. 

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