Washington rookie kicker Zach Hocker had the option to come up with a skit for the rest of his teammates or let them give him a haircut. He, uh, chose the latter:
Washington kicker Zach Hocker opts for bad haircut over rookie skit
We think he might have made the wrong decision.
No one ever said your rookie season would be easy... pic.twitter.com/KjZA3NCg5V
— Zach Hocker (@zhocker18) July 31, 2014 We call this one "The Beats By Dre."
“I kind of regret it now,” said Hocker, who signed autographs with a hat covering much of his head Thursday. “In the moment it was fun, but now I wish I had thought of something funny for the team ... I didn’t anticipate this. I got up on the stage and they put up three pictures for the team to vote on. This was my look. They let me have it and there I went.“And there it will stay for at least a week, per orders from the veterans. Hocker said he wants to shave off the rest for the Aug. 7 preseason opener against New England. But he said that’s still being negotiated.
“Right now they’re saying no,” he said, “so it’s not going as I planned but hopefully I can get that thing off real soon.”
Sure, this is rookie hazing, but it appears to be relatively tame -- if he’d just come up with a terrible skit, he could’ve gotten booed with the rest of his rookie teammates and moved on. Instead, permanent coach’s headset.
Hocker, a seventh-round pick out of Arkansas, is trying to beat out Kai Forbath for the team’s kicking spot.
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