For several seasons now, the San Diego art world has held its breath in anticipation, waiting to see how Chargers coach Mike McCoy would seek to differentiate his approach from the performance art antics of …
In a clear homage to 20th-century surrealist Salvador Dali, Coach McCoy sported an upturned mustache and a hat fashioned from the skull of a horse for September 11th’s season opener against the Kansas City Chiefs. The kitschy skull lamp may have been a reference to Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, which contains the lines, “All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death…[Life] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
McCoy, however, refused to comment on this, and also on the question of whether or not he thought professional football could be substituted for “life” in this case. “I’m not about to force my own interpretation of my work on the viewing public,” he explained. “All I can do is invite people to consider what it means to them. What all of this means, or doesn’t mean, or whether the very search for meaning is as absurd as my coaching strategy."
Posted September 16, 2016