No April fool!! A proposal requiring all players to have their name and number unobstructed by hair has been tabled until the May 21st owners meeting in Atlanta. Kansas City coach Herman Edwards, whose team pitched the rules change, said he didn't expect team owners to vote until a future gathering.
"Every great warrior throughout world history has had long hair, starting with the Samurais, the Greeks, the American Indians, the Chinese" Polamalu told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in 2005. "I don't know why it's so different now to have long hair." He's got a point!!
The Hittites did too!
I found this:-
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/peter_king/04/01/mailbag/