Iowa has pink locker rooms?

PokerKingJim · Sep 29, 2005

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2174828

For decades, visiting football teams playing at Kinnick Stadium have dressed and showered in the pink locker room. The tradition was started by former Iowa coach Hayden Fry, a psychology major who said pink had a calming and passive effect on people.
As part of the stadium's two-year, $88 million makeover, athletic officials took the former coach's interior decorating ideas to another level, splashing pink across the brick walls, shower floors and installing pink metal lockers, carpeting, sinks, showers and urinals.

I did not know that. Must say that it is a great idea. How can anybody get ready to play football in a pink locker room? The secret of the Kinnick HFA has been revealed.

TheRightWing · Sep 29, 2005

Hayden said it soothed the locker room and made the kicker feel right at home.....

Fishhead · Sep 29, 2005

Yes, HAYDEN FRY did that upon his arrival to Iowa City in the last 70's.

He also wrote the Pittsburgh Steeler organization and asked for permission to have and use the Steelers EXACT uniform details because he respected their winning tradition. The Steelers obliged and the rest is history!

He also brought the TIGER HAWK emblem to the University.

The saying "SCRATCH WHERE IT ITCHES" was also a famous FRY quote.

-Fish-

ps- Helped paint those pink walls one season.

DrunkenHorseplayer · Sep 29, 2005

I'm surprised you didn't paint subliminal messages on the walls: "Lose but cover."

RobFunk · Sep 29, 2005

It's time to use the martingale system with IOWA.

viking611 · Sep 29, 2005

with the reconstruction of the stadium, they have gone all out. Everything is now pink, lockers, carpet, walls, doors, even ordered the urinals pink!! Before it was mostly just the walls!

Photo Tour: http://www.hawkcentral.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=D5&Date=20050826&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=826001&Ref=PH&Profile=1053

Fishhead · Sep 29, 2005

viking611 said:
with the reconstruction of the stadium, they have gone all out. Everything is now pink, lockers, carpet, walls, doors, even ordered the urinals pink!! Before it was mostly just the walls!

Photo Tour: http://www.hawkcentral.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=D5&Date=20050826&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=826001&Ref=PH&Profile=1053

Thanks, good stuff!

Dante · Sep 29, 2005

Yep....NOW that explains alot about why Fisher is the way he is

sherman · Sep 29, 2005

True pimps wear pink...

hawkeye171 · Sep 29, 2005

Last week, a U of I professor said the lockers rooms demean women and homosexuals. Another Wacko professor, that Iowans are paying his/her (not sure) salary. I think the Hawks need all the advantage they can get after this month's drubbing at Iowa State and Ohio State.

t3a · Sep 29, 2005

hawkeye171 said:
Last week, a U of I professor said the lockers rooms demean women and homosexuals.

I heard that too. People can perceive insults from everything nowadays, even color.

I wonder what color demeans men? Maybe pink is mocking men, not really demeaning women.

I don't think I'd like taking a leak in a giant pink urinal