College Football Pink Locker Room

But not everyone is a fan of the pink locker room.

College football pink locker room.

Like all of it from the walls to the lockers to the toilets. The visiting team s locker room at iowa s kinnick stadium was painted dusty rose a shade of pink in the 1970s at the request of former coach hayden fry. Believing that pink would put opponents in a passive mood and because he thought that some believed pink was a sissy color fry had the visiting locker rooms decorated completely in the color pink. When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating.

Then head coach hayden fry learned of pink s subliminal. I was an athletic trainer for the football team and while it wasn t acceptable in 1985 for a woman to be in the men s locker room our training table was right outside the always open door. That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other. Clemson s current locker room is gorgeous and the program is now adding a new 55 million football facility which will include a 20 000 square foot weight room and a barber shop.

The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998. Former iowa coach hayden fry had the hawkeyes visiting locker room painted pink in 1979 purportedly as a means to gain a pregame psychological advantage against opponents. Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university. He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people.

Kinnick stadium is well known for its pink visitors locker rooms a tradition started by emeritus iowa coach hayden fry. A university professor at the time erin buzubis made it her goal to get the locker room back to normal and iowa fans responded by selling pink. I taped up just about every body part imaginable so i consider that close enough to being in the locker room.