NFL Player Troy Polamalu is notorious for his supersized hair, his shaggy mane reaches a metre out in all directions and that’s when it’s curly! It’s so big it barely fits in his helmet and lots of it tumbles out the back. Polamalu’s trademark hair won him a sponsorship deal with Head Shoulders, under the umbrella corporation of Proctor Gamble. That said, the multinational decided to protect their interests by taking out insurance on the Pittsburgh Steelers defender’s hair to the tune of $ 1m. Whenever discolouring and natural hair loss, proctor and Gamble ok out the policy with Lloyds of London, the insurer will not reveal what the policy covers but experts assume it involves damage. That’s interesting. The defender had been tackled a few times by his long hair, that he claims is the most painful thing that has happened to him in a game. In 2006 he was grabbed by Larry Johnson of the Kansas City Chief’s and pulled down by his hair as he was running for an uchdown after intercepting a pass.
While, the NFL governing body currently has no rules on having long hair and an estimated 10 of players now have hair protruding from the back of their helmets.
Some also claim that with hair that long, spectators are unable to see his name and number on his shirt but as he is one player with 3 foot hair, it’s difficult to mistake him.
League also has no rules on tackling by means of pulling hair as their rules predate the hairy trend when any player had short to medium hair. Some players have had second thoughts about their hair length, in 2003 Edgerrin James of the Indianapolis Colts was brought to the ground by someone grabbing his hair, the next day he turned up for training with his head shaved.
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