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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
I would have cancelled the game and fired every player on both teams.
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GE, what do you think George Steinbrenner would do if anyone on the team when he was in control took a knee? He controlled their Facial Hair.
The policy itself states thusly:
“All players, coaches, and male executives are forbidden to display any facial hair other than mustaches (except for religious reasons), and scalp hair may not be grown below the collar. Long sideburns and “mutton chops” are not specifically banned.”
But the seventies’ nostalgia aside, the policy has been widely derided for some time, with calls for its abolition interspersed with satire. Lou Piniella famously challenged the policy with Steinbrenner, to amusing effect.
It would have been something to see him go up against the kneelers. He is the kind of guy who could have possibly canned them all as you suggested. If I had his Cabbage I swear that I would.
SWEET LOU PINELLA:
“I don’t understand, Mr. Steinbrenner, what long hair has to do with your ability to play baseball,” Piniella said. “I’m a Christian. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ had hair down to the middle of his back, and it didn’t affect the way he went about his work.”
In response, Steinbrenner said, “Oh, really?... come with me,” and led Piniella out to a pond beyond the left-field wall.
“You see that pond, Lou?” he said.
“It’s about seven to eight feet deep. If you can walk across it, you can wear your hair as long as you want.”
Pinella had a Bar inside Woodbridge Mall in N.J. and he was the most gracious man. Always had time for a picture or an autograph. He told some great stories and had a very colorful vocabulary.