NFL owners tabled the Kansas City Chiefs' proposal to ban NFL players from wearing their hair long enough to cover their names on their jerseys at this week's league meeting. But the Chiefs say they won't give up the fight.Chiefs owner Clark Hunt tells the Kansas City Star that requiring all NFL players to keep their hair tucked under their helmets is something his father, Pro Football Hall of Famer and Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt, would have supported:
"He was always very much a stickler for players' names to be legible on the backs of jerseys," Hunt said. "He felt it was a positive from a marketing standpoint for the team, the league and the player."
Although Hunt says Commissioner Roger Goodell "has been supportive of it," all indications are that this rule has almost no chance of passing. The owners might take it up again at the May meeting, but if they do they'll vote it down. You have to pick your battles, and this battle just isn't important enough to fight with the players.
Previously on FanHouse:
NFL's Deal With Union Says 'No Player Will Be Disciplined Because of Hair Length'
NFL Could Ban Hair Flowing Out of Helmets
Herm Edwards on NFL Hair Proposal: 'Is It a Cultural Thing? No. It's a Uniform Thing'
Just So You Know, NFL: Troy Polamalu Is Not Cutting His Hair for Anybody
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I say let them wear their hair long; it only hurts the player who wants to wear it that way. From getting it grabbed/pulled, to being called out of bounds because any part of the body counts(it has happened), whichever players decide to keep it long only hurt themselves and consequently their team.
Oh please, how instantly recognizable is Polamalu, Mathis, Al Harris and the rest?
From a marketing standpoint they stand out from the rest of the nameless faceless automatons of the NFL.
And hair doesn't hurt the team, that's just a ludicrous comment.
How does Herm Edwards still have a job in the NFL as a head coach? How does Carl Peterson still have a job as a General Manager in the NFL? They have cemented themselves as poster children for mediocrity in a multi-billion dollar "what have you done for me lately" League. The game has passed both of these douchebags by. Who gives a crap what they think. Fix things in your own house before lobbying for policy change in the neighborhood.