When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating.
Iowa visiting locker room.
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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.
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.
Before saturday s game at kinnick stadium the wolverines locker room staff put up michigan propaganda all over the.
Michigan wasn t going to put up with iowa s pink visiting locker room.
That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other.
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.
Former iowa coach hayden fry had the hawkeyes visiting locker room painted pink in 1979 purportedly as a means to gain a pregame psychological advantage against opponents.