There's a new #1 reason not to wear dreadlocks in football.
Old number #1: it's perfectly legal to get yanked down by your hair (Rapunzled)
NEW #1: you can end up getting posterized without your helmet (Coolio'd)
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I may have to get that picture turned into a tshirt
When it first happened I thought his head was still in the helmet.
D. Anthony
Need a new method to keep their helmets on better (velcro'd)
Coolio'd.....amazing. Excellent work.
4-6 seconds from point A to point B and when you get to point B, be pissed off
I have to take option #1 - Repunzled
The funny part about these pictures is that both defenders are also sporting dreadlocks.
“Right now, Michigan is not at the pinnacle of college football, and that’s all Urban Meyer cares about...He’s been there and knows what it takes to get there.”
What's with the dreads anyway? Who wants that dirty mop on their head?
Calling all 11W members with dreads, please explain!
My guess (and totally a guess) is that the answer is something like "Chicks dig it".
Not to imply this as the reason why all Dreadlocked individuals choose to wear them, but I believe this website offers some insight as to the why:
http://www.jamaican-traditions.com/Rastafarian-dreadlocks.html
As for the "chicks dig it" comment..I would almost guess that the money is a bigger reason than the hair.
“Right now, Michigan is not at the pinnacle of college football, and that’s all Urban Meyer cares about...He’s been there and knows what it takes to get there.”
They are fake ass weaves...dread locks are real and very nasty.
Is getting "Repunzled" legal? If not it should be.
I believe it is. If I remember right, they count the hair as being part of the body, or something along those lines.
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It is legal. A guy can have long hair at their own risk. You can pull on the hair, although most of the time it's incidental hair pulling. But I have seen guys get incorrectly called for holding and face-masking when their dreads have been pulled and a guy's head or body gets twisted around.
What you say makes sense and I agree but I thought I saw Troy P (from steelers) get Repunzled and they threw a flag.
If I were still playing the field would look like a barber shop.
Troy's actually been repunzled twice -- the one you're thinking of he was out of bounds when he was finally pulled down...
Officially, a player's hair counts as part of their uniform and is fair game for a tackle in both college and pros.
"The revolution will be televised."
I'm impressed you knew that and that explains my errant thought.
The best hit of the year and couldn't have come against a better team. Too bad his head wasn't in it!
What time is it? It's 1200 noon on a glorious Saturday afternoon, and _ichigan still sucks!
Yeah clowney is a monster literally. Lol
Buckeye_For_Life
My friend Krebbe used to have dreads and he said they would get to stinky as you don't wash them... You can only use product in them. Can you imagine a football player wearing them with all the sweating and inside a helmet? It has to be a little like wearing a gym bag, or worse yet a hockey bag on your head.
D. Anthony
That picture is just perfect! Helmet perfectly placed. To be honest I actually thought the matte finish on the helmets for them and Northwestern looked pretty neat, (well as neat as TTUN's helmet can look).
love it
It is legal to pull the ball carrier down by the hair
D. Anthony
I don't think it is in the NFL. I can remember Troy P. getting pulled down by his hair against KC after an INT.
I had the same thought, see the comment above from 10:56.
It is legal.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/04/horse-collar-rule-will-b...
The wearing of dreads in America is cultural and there's nothing nasty about it. They are washed regularly. However, instead of being combed through, they are twisted. As far as the popularity now, liken it to the afro of the 70's; nothing more or less. The name calling or derision is ignorance. Is it me or has the tone on 11W changed in the last year?
I think it's probably you. I honestly don't care about the cultural significance of dreads. To each his own, but that doesn't mean it makes sense.
I think the questions stem from not understanding the point of having dreads while playing football which first seems dirty and second affects how the helmet sits on your head. Guys helmets are flying off their heads! If it's not dirty so be it, but you seem hyper sensitive to a legit question. An afro doesn't affect your helmet the same way long hair doesn't, dreads do.
I've played or watched football for almost my entire life, until recently I almost never saw a helmet fly off a guy's head. Now there is rule about it!
DRob (and I'm sure others) have to have bigger helmets to fit their dreads. He looks like the guy from Space Balls it's so big. In an era where speed tops everything why carry around a huge head of wet dreads which must weigh something plus a bigger helmet?
One of my biggest issues with DRob is he clearly put fashion ahead of performance. The huge dreads, big helmet and untied shoes were a fashion statement. If he was 4-0 against the Bucks and won the heisman I would be obliged to keep my mouth shut.
Would you please explain this statement? Are you suggesting that if commenters who are deriding football players with dreads understood the cultural significance of dreads in America, they'd know better not to deride them?
I'm genuinely interested in hearing your rationale for why dreads are akin to afros in the 1970s (which some cultural historians/theorists, etc., might interpet as having been not only cultural trends, but connected to ideas of liberation against oppression/racism and so forth). Whereas facial hair - which is fair game for ridicule - is not entitled to deference.
I apologize for not making myself clearer. What I responded to was the statement that they're not washed and are nasty. To someone who doesn't understand what they stand for that could seem true. However, that could not be further from the truth. As far as the afro comment; the youth today do believe that they are making some kind of anti-establishment statement of not conforming. I did not respond to the football part of it, because i too feel it's dumb to give an opposing player something else to grab onto. I don't expect anyone on this forum to understand that when someone attacks part of your culture you feel you must respond. The overwhelming majority of people who wear dreads are black and the overwhelming majority of people on 11W are white. I felt some kind of way and i apologize if i offended anyone. Again, I was reacting to the unwashed and nasty comment. I'm done.
And I apologize if it seemed like I was the least bit offended - I was not. I just never saw dreads in America to have the same level/type of (counter)cultual and/or "political" significance as afros had in the 1970s.
I went to a couple of hippie schools in the 90s and early 00s where the white kids wearing dreads far outnumbered the African American kids doing so. If I'd made fun of those suburban rastafarian's haridos, I might have been accused of being uncool or rude, but no one would have raised concerns about cultural ignornace/insensitivity. During that same period, the majority of kids who choose to shave their heads was African American, yet it was understood that anyone - black or white - who had premature balding (not by choice) was open to ridicule ("What's up, you bald MFer?!?"). Whereas if we made excessive fun of a Jewish kid from Brooklyn for having a "fro," that derision had the potential to indrectly spill over into cultural insensitivity.
I really didn't mean to give the impression that I was discounting your thoughts and concerns, just asking for a clarification - you seem to be suggesting that making fun of dreads worn by African Americans can be perceived as an attack. Although I cannot relate to your experiences, I can see how that would be the case. It's just that I'm interested in exploring these themes a little deeper - What makes jokes about dreads more like jokes about fros than like jokes about the bald look? Maybe I'm wrong for asking, but was just curious, not intending to minimize what you're saying.
As you know that (70's) was a very different time and afros were definitely to a certain extent a political statement. Dreads to a lesser extent are counter-culture as were cornrows this past decade. That was not my main point however; calling them nasty and dirty was where i got in my feelings. I don't mind the curiosity. We all have questions about things we don't understand and I don't mind good natured ribbing. I appreciate you taking the time to have this dialogue and I thank you for acknowledging my point of view.
That's an attack on my culture, and I feel I must respond...
I didn't realize 11w kept demographic info. The only person bringing up race is you. I don't care what race anyone here is, we share a common bond which is why we are all here. We were talking about hair, you took offense. For what it's worth I don't like the Matthews look, but at least his helmet does fly off his head.
Dreads sit at about the same level as a Mullet in my book. They look stupid and serve no purpose other than an a lame attempt to look cool. Only hockey players and people that drive Camaros are allowed to sport a Mullet, and only Rastafarians are permitted the Dreads. Now, white guys that rock dreads should be shot on site, but black guys that rock a Mullet should be high fived and given a beer. This is also one of the few times that a High Five is allowed.
-The Aristocrats!
I actually think the long, stringy white guy hair flowing out of the helmet is the worst look...never liked it when Hawk, Carp and the guys all sported it, but it's always easier to try to overlook it when it's a Buckeye player... I still never liked it. Just my opinion.
D. Anthony
Yeah, the 'viking rock' hair drives me crazy. I like to imagine also that Clay Matthews and AJ Hawk 'girl talk' sessions about the best shampoo-conditioner combo.
Im sure they use Mane and Tail.....
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@ Brutus Greyshield- AJ No Mas
You know what hair stands for and represents? Hair... "No, you see the mohawk hair was part of..." Ok I get it, hair.... "but in Jesus' time many wore their hair long as a sign of..." Ok, I get it hair. All hair stands for hair. Unless you're actually a Rastafarian, Samoan playing football or growing it to later shave for a Cancer society or something of that nature, hair stands for hair and 99% of the time it's all about hair fashion.
D. Anthony