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With college basketball aplenty, a new baseball season and what should be a very exciting NBA playoffs coming up, it's a wonder why football would garner any headlines right now.
Yet the NFL has made sure it's still on the sports fans' mind. One way the league has done this is by proposing a ban on long hair.
It was reported by the NFL Network that the Kansas City Chiefs proposed a new rule in which players wouldn't be allowed to wear their hair long or flowing out of the back of their helmet. The league's owners are expected to vote on the issue later in the month at a meeting in Florida. But I think I can save all the owners a little time by doing the voting right now.
No.
It's an unnecessary and ridiculous rule. It's legal to tackle a player using their hair if it's hanging out of the back of their helmet, and any player with long hair should know that. If they still want to keep their hair long, why tell them no?
As the NFL Network's Adam Schefter writes, the rule would help in that long hair would no longer "cover or obscure the names on the back of player's jersey."
And, of course, referees refer to each player by number when calling them for a penalty. Announcers have lists of each team's roster with them in the announcing booths, where one of the items on the roster list is player number. Plus, can they read the name on the back of a player's jersey from all the way up in the booth?
As far as I know, no player in the NFL has hair long enough that it completely covers the number on the back of their jersey. Oh, and there is also the front of player's jersey, which too has their number, just in case there is a player with that long of hair.
So the covering up of a player's name shouldn't really be too much of a worry.
Also, long hair is a distinction. It's much easier to recognize a player with long hair in the middle of a game, while action is going on, than a player without long hair. Wouldn't making a player cut their long hair, or hide it in their helmet, just make picking them out of all players on the field more difficult? |
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