DeAngelo Williams is sick of getting tackled by his hair
DeAngelo Williams finally figured out what the rest of the league already knew: The dreadlocks flowing under the back of his helmet made him easier to tackle. Now, the Carolina Panthers running back is going to do something about it.
Williams told the Charlotte Observer that he'll keep his hair in a braided ponytail for the team's upcoming game against the Houston Texans. It's a response to the two times this year that Williams has been dragged down by flowing mane, which is a perfectly legal move in the NFL.
Why Williams won't just cut the dreads is a mystery to me. I get that he likes them, but for all the sacrifices football players have to make in order to be professional athletes -- eating right, working out daily, not running multimillion dollar cocaine operations -- a haircut doesn't seem like too much trouble.
Anyway, dreadlocks are like mustaches: You don't appreciate how dumb they look until you've gotten rid of them.* It reminds me of when I was younger and some of my friends' dads would rock the 'stache. Eventually they'd shave them and, for a few weeks, they'd look all weird with a clean upper lip. But now I'll look back at pictures of their mustachioed selves and think, "man, they looked real stupid and about 10 years older in that picture."
* Tom Selleck excepted, of course.
Cut your hair DeAngelo. But in the meantime, it's good that you're at least wise enough to follow the advice of the incomparable R. Kelly:
