{"id":497984,"date":"2026-02-23T02:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497984\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T02:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:53:08","slug":"competition-committee-talks-about-keeping-short-pants-out-of-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497984\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition Committee talks about keeping short pants out of NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who wears short shorts<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Not NFL players. And the league hopes to keep it that way.<\/p>\n

Via Judy Battista of NFL Media, the Competition Committee talked about uniforms on Sunday. Specifically, they discussed the fact that the college football cutoffs won\u2019t be coming to the NFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s sort of strange to think there was even a chance for it. Current rules surely don\u2019t allow players to take scissors to their game pants.<\/p>\n

Then again, the league has come a long way from the days when all knees were covered with actual padding. Most knee pads nowadays look like Pop Tarts, if that.<\/p>\n

The NFL generally used to exhibit much more OCD regarding uniforms. Mouthpieces weren\u2019t whatever color the players wanted, and they were never crammed into a random hole in the player\u2019s helmet. Some players now have two dangling from their facemasks, with neither in their mouths. And shoe\/glove color often seems to be all over the place. (Yellow shoes are a problem; it often looks like a flag is on the field.)<\/p>\n

But, hey, at least we know guys like Dion Dawkins won\u2019t be wearing Daisy Dukes. The fact that it was even regarded as a possibility is surprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who wears short shorts? Not NFL players. And the league hopes to keep it that way. Via Judy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-497984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}