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Matt Jones explains being tackled by his dreadlocks

Long hair, don't care.

Washington Post reporter and ur-sports blogger Dan Steinberg is consistently a font for truly interesting and off-kilter stories about sports. So, after Florida star turned Washington rookie Matt Jones was tackled by Philadelphia's Fletcher Cox partly because Cox yanked on Jones's dreadlocks last Sunday, it's no surprise that Steinberg was all over the story.

What is surprising? Jones's shrug of a reaction.

"He just grabbed a handful of my hair," Jones recalled. "I just felt the whole momentum of it, of him pulling my hair, but it didn’t hurt or nothing.