Iowa Football Visitors Locker Room

Everything in the visiting team s locker room including the ceilings sinks and urinals has been painted pink a choice that iowa legend says was made by a football coach with a master s degree.

Iowa football visitors locker room.

Since 1979 iowa s kinnick stadium has painted its visitor s locker room pink. The most notorious case of psychological locker room warfare can be found in iowa city. When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating. He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people.

Hayden fry the native texan who revived iowa football and became a hawkeye state institution over two decades as a big ten coach died on dec. He had the visitors locker room. That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other. The most famous visitor s locker room has to be in kinnick stadium where everything from the walls to the urinals and lockers are pink thanks to a special touch from former head coach haden fry put his degree in psychology to good use.

Like all of it from the. A former faculty member said iowa could be open to legal challenge because of the locker room. Iowa city iowa iowa s visiting football locker room received a michigan makeover saturday before the teams squared off in a prime time game at kinnick stadium. In 2014 a professor organized a march in protest and wrote an op ed criticizing the tradition.