For Keyshawn Johnson, memory lane is a fashion runway. At least that’s what it transforms into every NFL draft season, as players, fans and reporters alike strut up to the receiver turned ESPN analyst and sashay him back down the catwalk of a sartorial choice that he still can’t shake. “People you run into, they’re always like, ‘Ah, man, I remember when you had that suit on!’” Johnson says. “I guess I was the first guy to really dress up or something.”
The year was 1996, long before Dante Fowler Jr. donned a pair of spiked golden loafers that could’ve been cobbled out of a medieval morning star, before Ezekiel Elliott bared his belly button in a crop-top tuxedo.