Beastie Boys say, "I'll kick you outta my home if you don't CUT THAT HAIR!"

Reports are surfacing that at the NFL owners meetings in Florida next week, the league is going to propose a "No Long Hair" rule for players, which might turn into a somewhat bushy problem for Troy Polamalu.

Couldn't they just name the rule 'The Polamalu Rule'? I mean, who do they think they're kidding?

Though there could also be some consideration given for calling it the 'Al Harris Rule' or the 'Mike McKenzie Rule', though neither of those guys have been *tackled* by their hair the way Polamalu has.

There is some precedence in this area - when they instituted a new rule a couple of years ago: 'The Horse-Collar Rule'. They couldn't have named that rule after Roy Williams? After all, the genesis of the rule was *clearly* due to #31's predilection for grabbing a guy by the shoulder pads and riding him like a toboggan into the ground.

Why couldn't they have called it the Roy Williams Rule? Who would that be hurting? I'd get a big kick out of it, and Roy couldn't possibly complain, as the following pictures conclusively demonstrate:



But don't expect the NFL owners to be creative enough to call this 'The Polamalu Rule', just like you shouldn't expect to see Troy (or any other NFL player) to get tackled by their hair again any time soon.



---JohnnyU