Iowa Football Visitors Locker Room

He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people.

Iowa football visitors locker room.

That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other. When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating. Like all of it from the. 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.

High school and college programs at every level travel to stadiums and temporarily store their stuff in some really sad looking locker rooms. A former faculty member said iowa could be open to legal challenge because of the locker room. The most notorious case of psychological locker room warfare can be found in iowa city. The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998.

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. Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university. 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. Since 1979 iowa s kinnick stadium has painted its visitor s locker room pink.