Posted on 10/08/2019 3:53:30 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
If I was NFL Commish, I’d change the rules to make grabbing any reachable hair totally legal. Hair tackles would be legit, as would “hair blocking” by offensive players.
All the hair would be inside the helmets by the next game day.
“its content does not align with our values.”
“our values”
Your “values” are what Penn State, Thuggism?
The only regulation that would make sense to me is that a player must not have hair that hangs low enough to obscure the player’s name and number on the back of his jersey. Whether’s the hair is a cracker’s dirty blond mullet or a soul brother’s insect and small rodent refuge Rasta pasta mess.
Nice freeping! NOT
These folks obviously didn’t know they’d have to qualify their opinion on child rape to an obvious racist, before commenting on LAME hairstyles!
If he walked into my office for a job interview with a head full of long dreadlocks, I would politely go through the pretense of a genuine interview, but never hire him. He made his hair choice and I would make my hiring choice.
What a stupid, stupid thing to say. If you did a one-minute search of this young man you would see just how much effort he has put into being one of the nations top players at his position, how he comes from a good family, and his aspirations for the future once he graduates.
But nope. You, and many others on this thread, have chosen to literally just look at one picture of him and make your stupid uninformed judgements about long hair and effort. Good lord, for all the good this site has done, it certainly takes a step back when people like you come out of the woodwork and judge a young man based on nothing but his hairstyle. Idiots.
Almost cut my hair,
Happened just the other day...
Or
She asked me why,
I’m just a hairy guy,
I’m hairy noon and night,
Hair that’s a fright,
I’m hairy high and low,
Don’t ask me why, I just don’t know...
That’s actually become a very common look among football players.
Not very practical though as it’s quite easy for an opponent to drag you down by your dreadlocks.
And many people have tattoos nowadays too. Also unappealing and a turn off.
But the way these discussions occur, you are intolerant and bigoted and all that, if you say anything about unkempt appearances. The offenders are considered innocent bystanders to all of this.
Sorry, as good as he is, he’d be better with short hair.
Some people have freedom of speech, others have freedom of appearance.
Personally, I prefer a high an tight cut. But that’s just me. Remember what this country stands for. It has everything to do with freedoms of preference and opinion.
It's no use talking to you so why bother?
Have you seen the cascades of hair flowing out of the helmets of Polynesian players? I will let you be the one to tell them to cut it.
Would Penn State write the same response if the guy shaved a swastika into his hair? How about some tolerance for Sandusky?
These colleges are nothing more than temples of BS and hypocrisy.
I’m not talking about long hair, that fine.
Calm down before you blow a gasket over there.
Well I can guarantee this in the old days if some clown showed up with
long hair sticking out the back of his helmet in the next game he would show
up in a butch cut.
Oh I get it now. It's not long hair you dislike, it's just long hair that comes natural to black people that you have a problem with. White guy playing football with blonde hair flowing from his helmet = perfectly acceptable. Black guy playing football with dreadlocks = scary lazy criminal black guy. Got it. Thanks for clarifying.
It’s the “Ricky Williams Rule”, regarding hair-pulling and you’ll notice half the time the officials still threw a flag. What I don’t understand is if they outlawed the horse-collar tackle because of the players getting injured, why do they allow a tackle that is exactly the same thing - pulling someone’s head downward in an awkward motion?
As for Penn State, you can’t have Joe Paterno back and I’m not sure you’d want him back the way his career ended. You hired an African-American head coach to push your program into the 21st Century and this is a bi-product of luring athletes that can return the program to the Top 20.
There is no NFL rule against pulling hair. If it reaches the jersey, it is considered part of the uniform. So grab and yank away. Use it to the opposing teams advantage. Are college rules the same?
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