Iowa Visitors Locker Room

Then head coach hayden fry learned of pink s subliminal.

Iowa visitors locker room.

Kinnick stadium is well known for its pink visitors locker rooms a tradition started by emeritus iowa coach hayden fry. The visiting team s locker room at iowa s kinnick stadium was painted dusty rose a shade of pink in the 1970s at the request of former coach hayden fry. 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. Believing that pink would put opponents in a passive mood and because he thought that some believed pink was a sissy color fry had the visiting locker rooms decorated completely in the color pink.

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. Instead of the famed pink walls. When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating. Visiting teams that come to iowa s kinnick stadium face the formidable university of iowa hawkeyes and their fans seasonal weather that can sometimes range from bad to miserable and a unique characteristic that screams of iowa tradition.

That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other. Since 1979 iowa s kinnick stadium has painted its visitor s locker room pink. Visiting locker rooms are often cramped places that aren t meant to be comfortable confines for a home team s opponents but the hawkeyes take things up a notch with the paint job. The walls are pink.

A pink locker room.