The Perfect Father’s Day Gift for the NBA Fan Dad #NBA

Father’s Day never gets any easier. In fact, the older you get, the harder it is to find something for your dad.

As a kid, you glue a pair of googly eyes onto a rock you found in the yard, paint ‘Dad’ on the side, and boom, paperweight. Done and done. Never easier.

But as you age, as your perspective improves, you want to let your dad know that you love him. That he has taught you well; that he has been a mentor, a confidant, a friend. How do you do that? It’s not easy. Or it wasn’t until now. Click here to change your father's life.

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Who wouldn’t want a coat made from the hides of not one, but two dead animals? I love you, Dad. No more bottles of scotch, no more ties, or books you will never read. Here is a chinchilla coat with crocodile NBA logos glued onto the garment. Worried that your favorite team isn't featured? Fear not, they're all there. What's your favorite team, Dad? All of them!

This is not a PETA thing. I don’t care if you have endangered rhinoceros skin as the wallpaper in your bathroom. I don’t care if you dine on whale meat six nights a week. Not my thing. This is a 'horrifically ugly jacket' thing. This is a 'worst taste imaginable' thing. Oh, and it's only $7,000 on eBay. So that makes it a 'if you are stupid enough to buy a hideous $7,000 jacket, you need to be locked-up' thing. It's a 'buy this jacket so we can recognize the morons' thing. It's a 'how did you even get $7,000 in the first place' thing.

Who wears this? I mean other than rich prostitutes and/or their pimps with a passion for the NBA? Do you wear this out on any old night? Headed out to grab a bite with friends, I think I’ll grab the NBA fur with alligator logos. It looks good with my jeans. Damn, my Member's Only jacket is at the cleaners. What am I going to wear with these Montreal Alouettes mink/ostrich pants?

I think what I like the best about the coat, and there are many, many things I like about it, are the logos. The fact that the designer (Jeff Hamilton, good to see the former Dodgers third baseman succeeding in his second career) has used alligator skin to make each logo indistinguishable from the others, while at the same time making them look like gigantic cigarette burns is a design touch of great skill. Does someone want to mention to Jeff that alligator isn't the best medium for recreating logos? His Pistons symbol looks like a German "yield" sign.

I hope that this becomes an annual tradition. I have my fingers crossed that the NFL, MLB and NHL version are currently in the works. I hope that there are dozens of chinchillas waiting to have the Colorado Avalanche logo seared into their fur. Somewhere in Florida there is an alligator waiting to be made into the logo of the Kansas City Royals. Father’s Day, birthdays, Christmas; they're all now taken care of. Fur/ prehistoric reptile coats for everyone!

If you buy this jacket, you are a bad person. FACT.

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