NFL wants to remove dreads

[PlayaHataSupreme]

Quote: Originally Posted by The Mind of the Honorable Roger Goodell

Screw your religion. Screw your culture. I got money to make.

Well, there were a handful of owners who probably said the same thing in their minds so to be fair, it's not solely on Goodell........

[grunt]

Quote: Originally Posted by wwharton

I'm sure the post is more to make the statement than as a reply to me but either way it doesn't matter. People can talk about cultural norms all they want. They don't apply in the military, which is more of a binding contract than any sport. The NFL is not jail. Every employee of the NFL can walk away any day they want. People can get as mad as they want but (as it's said many times before) it's a privileged, not a right to be employed as an NFL player. If tucking your hair in or cutting it off is a hurdle you must jump for that privilege then so be it. Again, it's not like the only long hair being targeted is locks. That was a potential issue in the work place years ago but isn't the issue here now.

I read in this post that players can't be punish for the lenght of their hair. It is a CBA thing.

[ProfessaPackMan]

HAIR PROPOSAL TO BE TABLED?

Posted by Mike Florio on March 31, 2008, 10:37 p.m.
Bill Williamson, formerly of the Denver Post and newly-hired by ESPN.com, reports that the proposal to keep long hair off the backs of player jerseys likely will be “tabled” — which is fancy talk for “ignored without a vote.”
Falcons president Rich McKay said that the league needs to gather more information before acting on the rule, and could poll players to gauge their feelings on the matter.
In our view, the strategy is a way for the league to avoid a thorny issue (especially in light of Article VII, Section 2 of the CBA) while still saving face.
McKay also pointed out that the proposal was made by the Kansas City Chiefs, and not by the Competition Committee. (Translation: “Don’t blame us for it.”)
Meanwhile, a reader had this to say in response to the comments of Chiefs coach Herm Edwards, who recently compared the NFL uniform to the fact that his father wore an ”Army suit“: “Can someone please let Herm Edwards know that I don’t know his father, but as a 21.5-year active duty Air Force member, I’m pretty sure his dad didn’t put on an ‘Army Suit.’ I’m pretty confident it was a uniform, and his service much like mine was intended to preserve one of many freedoms, including one’s personal grooming choices.”

[wwharton]

Hopefully it'll go away now since it is pretty silly. And absolutely no disrespect to those that served and continue to serve our country, but the shot at Herm is as off as his reference to the "army suit" as all the soldiers defending "personal grooming choices" happily shaved all of the hair on their head and face when enlisting because they had to or had to go home.

[utexas]

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