what's with all this hair?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by JasonTX

Make the rule change be that no hair can stick out of the helmet. Don't punish the tackler, make the kid cut his hair.

Why? It's very easy for a tackler to avoid pulling someone's hair or beard -- at least as easy as avoiding pulling the face mask. Meanwhile, consider that the player is on the football field only a tiny percentage of his time; so he's supposed to change the way he looks during the entire football season just to conform with your idea of how he should look on the field? Besides, what difference does it make to the game how the players look? They have uniforms to tell the teams apart, that's all you need.