As their heads swivel back and forth, the movements of blonde, brown, and black hair become capped by a helmet as they run out on the field. Sitting in the stands you can see the players hair poking out of their helmet. For a few years, about eight or nine football students have an unspoken pact to grow their hair out. They’re learning how long hair can be hard to manage while playing a sport, whether it’s getting caught in objects or getting in the way.

Varsity football head coach Brian Mehl explained that “as long as they play good ball and they’re a good member of our team, then I don’t have that big of issues with it.” Some of the players get annoyed by little things students do to their hair.

Junior Austin Leeper says that the worst thing is ”when people try to pull it”, while Junior Timmy Hubert says that “In the middle of a drill all of a sudden my hair just fell in my face and I couldn’t really see and I had to go off for a few to fix my hair.”

Hair can go everywhere, as a lot of people know. Many Players have been seen trying to tame their strands with hair ties, scrunchies, and headbands.

This isn’t the first time the football teams have done something spunky with their hair. Cole Pouliot remembers, “Every once in awhile, players want to do something for fun. Sometimes they shave their heads or one year they did mohawks.” With this generation of players not being the only ones to do this kind of thing, this could be counted as a tradition that is pretty unique to West Albany and is just one more way of show our team spirit.