Equipment manager Jon Falk on the pink locker rooms
October 9th, 2009 at 9:46 PM ^
sorry if this has been previously posted.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:47 PM ^
Cool. Thanks for the link.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:06 PM ^
Falk does a nice Bo imitation. Maybe RR should utilize it whenever the team needs an extra boost.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:12 PM ^
I love that Bo went that far to plaster both upstairs and down so the players didn't see any pink.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:11 AM ^
From an advertising point of view. Fry and the Iowa athletic department needed to paint the locker rooms anyway, so it didn't cost them any money. In return Fry got hundreds of stories about how he's trying to turn things around at Iowa. We're obviously still seeing stories about it thirty years later.
Did the pink walls actually have any effect on its opponents on game day? Aside from concerning opposing coaches, I really doubt it.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:39 PM ^
The pink coloring in the locker rooms (initially I don't think it was the entire locker rooms; I believe they've expanded it recently) was done because pink is a calming/relaxing tone. It was never intended as some sign of the feminism of the opposing team or an attempt to emasculate them.
Hayden Fry was awesome, 100% pure Columbian awesome.
EDIT: Sorry, posted before I watched the video. Oops.