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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mkapp" data-source="post: 218262" data-attributes="member: 144">Looks like the NFLPA will get involved with this one...(from Yahoo Sports)Mawae says players will fight hair length issueNFL players fearing they'll have to go to the barber or find hairnets won't have to worry if Titans center Kevin Mawae's voice is heard according to The Tennessean.The new president of the NFL Players Association said Thursday he's against a proposal that would prohibit flowing hair that obscures the player's name on the back of his jersey. NFL owners will consider the proposal at their meetings in Florida next week."I don't think there is any rule in the NFL rulebook saying your hair can't be a certain length. For management council or ownership to say we need all our players to cut their hair or bind it up or whatever, I think they need to understand it goes way beyond just haircuts," Mawae said. It goes into a cultural issue with the African American population in our league and also with the Polynesian population. The hair is a part of their culture. It's part of the history and the background. To ask a player to cut it off just because a select few don't like it, I think there is an issue with that."</blockquote>

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