Iowa Football Visitors Locker Room

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Iowa football visitors locker room.

Iowa city iowa iowa s visiting football locker room received a michigan makeover saturday before the teams squared off in a prime time game at kinnick stadium. Everything in the visiting team s locker room including the ceilings sinks and urinals has been painted pink a choice that iowa legend says was made by a football coach with a master s degree. When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating. Hayden fry the native texan who revived iowa football and became a hawkeye state institution over two decades as a big ten coach died on dec.

Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university. The most notorious case of psychological locker room warfare can be found in iowa city. He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people. That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other.

The most famous visitor s locker room has to be in kinnick stadium where everything from the walls to the urinals and lockers are pink thanks to a special touch from former head coach haden fry put his degree in psychology to good use. Since 1979 iowa s kinnick stadium has painted its visitor s locker room pink. He had the visitors locker room. In 2014 a professor organized a march in protest and wrote an op ed criticizing the tradition.