Troy Polamalu's long locks insured for $1 million

[luv]

Sorry if repost.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Troy-Polamalu-s-long-locks-insured-for-1-millio?urn=nfl-266239


Troy Polamalu's long locks insured for $1 million

By Doug Farrar

You'd think that an All-Pro safety who missed 11 games in 2009 due to a knee injury would be most concerned about other body parts, but Pittsburgh Steelers superstar Troy Polamalu(notes) also has endorsements to consider. One of his endorsements is with the Head & Shoulders company, which makes sense when you consider Polamalu's famed three-foot-long hair. It's a tribute to his Samoan heritage, and it's not something he plans to cut anytime soon.

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Once in a great while, a Steelers opponent will try to use Polamalu's hair against him in a game (as Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson(notes) did in 2006 as Polamalu returned an interception), and it's quite possible that the concern over such matters was the catalyst needed by Head & Shoulders to insure Polamalu's hair with Lloyd's of London for $1 million, which was reported by the Associated Press.

Then again, it could be a publicity stunt. Lloyd's is famous for unusual policies that can be turned into media gold; the company has insured Tina Turner's legs, Keith Richards' fingers, the legs of noted Riverdance ponce Michael Flatley, the bodies of several professional wrestlers (including Ric Flair -- Woo!), Jimmy Durante's nose, and Celine Dion's vocal cords (they're also talking with Virgin Galactic about insuring space travel, if that ever gets off the ground). Polamalu's hair isn't going anywhere, but it's a nice press haul for company and endorsee.

And if you want to ask Polamalu why his hair is insured ... well, just don't ask with your eyes. He can pick that up pretty well.

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[Reaper16]

Polamalu looks like a drugged-out worthless hippie. Just think how much better he'd be if he cut his hair and got a real job out there on the field. /ChiefsPlanet

[LaChapelle]

Look at all that drug history

[BigMeatballDave]

Polamalu looks like a drugged-out worthless hippie. Just think how much better he'd be if he cut his hair and got a real job out there on the field. /ChiefsPlanet:D

[bevischief]

Look at all that drug history

:)

[Hydrae]

Look at all that drug history

The picture looks like the photoshopped out the joint in his hands.

[DaneMcCloud]

That's nothin'.

Mecca has his insured for $5 million.

[KurtCobain]

That's nothin'.

Mecca has his insured for $5 million.

Five mill? Doesn't Mecca live in a cave and spend all his limited earings on Shampoo and Mirrors?

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Polamalu looks like a drugged-out worthless hippie. Just think how much better he'd be if he cut his hair and got a real job out there on the field. /ChiefsPlanet

ROFL

[boogblaster]

I tried to have my penis insured for 2 million .. but they said it was to small to get a acurate measurement ....

[oldandslow]

Polamalu looks like a drugged-out worthless hippie. Just think how much better he'd be if he cut his hair and got a real job out there on the field. /ChiefsPlanet

Yeah, and he couldn't enroll for school in Texas :).

[Frazod]

The hair doesn't bother me so much as the voice - he sounds like a teenage girl when he talks. That Head and Shoulders commercial is just flat out disturbing.

I'll bet his teammates are a little more careful about wearing towels around the locker room now.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Yeah, and he couldn't enroll for school in Texas :).

Boy, I bet that just harshed his mellow big-time...

[Psyko Tek]

you know
we could have drafted him instead of LJ


ducking

[Marcellus]

That's nothin'.

Mecca has his insured for $5 million.

That isn't $ it is Dungeons and Dragons points.

[Gracie Dean]

Didn't Gilette offer the guys of ZZ top a LOT Of money to save their beards and they told them to get lost?

[BigMeatballDave]

Didn't Gilette offer the guys of ZZ top a LOT Of money to save their beards and they told them to get lost? I love the irony of the fact that the drummers last name is 'Beard'.


(He has no beard) :)

[Gracie Dean]

I love the irony of the fact that the drummers last name is 'Beard'.


(He has no beard) :)

yea, that is pretty cool.

When we were younger, we used to laugh that Frank White was black and ????black was white

[stevieray]

Didn't Gilette offer the guys of ZZ top a LOT Of money to save their beards and they told them to get lost?
...a mill apiece.

[black angus]

You mean Bud Black former Royals lefty and current manager of the Padres?

[jAZ]

100% of the time, these are publicity stunts. Way to support Head and Shoulders with this. :thumb:

[luv]

100% of the time, these are publicity stunts. Way to support Head and Shoulders with this. :thumb:

I do use the dry scalp conditioner.